U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, the man who the late civil rights leader Coretta Scott King warned the country about in 1986, and who was once the face of Trumpism, is now out of a job. President Trump tweeted on Tuesday afternoon: ….We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions…
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'I Like This Bunch': Sessions Said to Young Conservatives Who Chanted 'Lock Her Up'
The assault from the far right on former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is not dying down any time soon. The conservative hysteria has now steeped into the younger generation of the conservative movement. When Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III addressed a group of high school students at Turning Point…
Trump Doesnt Back Down From Infestation Comments
President Donald Trump is doubling down on his inflammatory rhetoric concerning undocumented immigrants. Trump depicted who he claims to be gang members of MS-13 as an “infestation” of pests coming across United States borders. The president tweeted: “When we have an ‘infestation’ of MS-13 GANGS in certain parts of our…
Jeff Sessions Rescinds Documents Protecting Minorities Just Ahead of Independence Day
On July 3rd — the day before America was gearing up to celebrate Independence Day — Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was busy rescinding guidance intended to protect minorities. In a statement Sessions called the documents “unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper.” Sessions’ action does not…
Central American Mother Suing Trump Says I Had Seen Officers Grab Little Children by Their Hair and Throw Them into Cells
Perla Karlili Alemengor Miranda De Velasquez is an asylum-seeking mother from Guatemala who is suing the Trump administration for the return of her daughter. The mother explained through a translator that she willingly let her 12-year-old daughter leave with border agents at 3 am because “she had seen officers physically…
Jesse Jackson: Slave Owners and Nazis Quote Romans 13 to Justify Immorality, Too
The Trump administration has separated some 2,000 children from their parents, most of whom have come to the United States seeking asylum. Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited the Bible, Romans 13, as justification for this zero-tolerance immigration policy. The first verse reads: “Everyone is to obey the governing authorities, because…
Sessions Wants Blacks in the Back of the Bus, Says Congressman
A Democratic lawmaker stands behind his comments that Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III wants to “Make America Great Again” by sending the nation decades back to when people didn’t have basic civil rights. “Sessions, he’d just love for Black people to be in the back of the bus again….
Not Our Citizens Not Our Problem: Sessions to Turn Away Victims of Violence
Instances of violent racism against immigrants are popping up across the nation. And the implication that immigrant lives matter less than those of American citizens is coming right from Trump’s administration. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in newly issued guidance that claims of domestic or gang violence will “generally” no…
Trump Uses Kids as Pawns for Immigration
It has been one of his most potent tactics ever since his ride down the Trump Tower escalator now more than two years ago, painting innocent immigrants as callous criminals and blaming his liberal foes for not doing all they allegedly could do to keep them out. Now he is…
Racist Professor Who Calls Blacks, Hispanics More Violent Than Whites Appointed to Trump's Sentencing Commission
A former federal prosecutor who once said Blacks and Hispanics are more violent than whites has been tapped to join President Donald Trump’s sentencing commission. William Otis, a Georgetown professor, writes on a blog called “Crime and Consequences.” He wrote in a 2013 post: “Thus, when Fifth Circuit Judge Edith…