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Sessions to California: 'There is no secession'
The Hill ^ | March 7, 2018 | Brett Samuels

Posted on 03/07/2018 9:20:58 AM PST by jazusamo

Video at link.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a stern warning to California the same day he announced a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department over the state's immigration policies.

“I understand that we have a wide variety of political opinions out there on immigration. But the law is in the books and its purposes are clear and just,” Sessions said during a speech to the California Peace Officers’ Association in Sacramento on Wednesday.

“There is no nullification. There is no secession. Federal law is the supreme law of the land. I would invite any doubters to go to Gettysburg, to the tombstones of John C. Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln. This matter has been settled,” he continued.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California on Wednesday that aims to block three so-called sanctuary laws California's legislature passed last year. The laws dictate how local jurisdictions should interact with federal immigration authorities. California’s laws, Sessions argued, are harmful to the state’s residents, and prevent law enforcement officers from doing their jobs.

He singled out Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who last month warned residents of an impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. Schaaf defended her decision even after ICE said it was unable to locate more than 800 people as part of its sweep of the city.

"Here’s my message to Mayor Schaaf: How dare you," Sessions said Wednesday. "How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical open borders agenda."

He said the Justice Department isn’t asking the state to enforce federal immigration law, but rather is asking California and local jurisdictions to “stop actively obstructing federal law enforcement.”

“California is using every power it has, and some it doesn’t, to frustrate federal law enforcement,” Sessions said. “So you can be sure...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; buildthefence; california; daca; doj; dreamact; dreamers; ice; illegalaliens; jeffsessions; libbyschaaf; oakland; rebellion; sanctuarycities; sanctuarystate; schaaf; secession; sessions
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1 posted on 03/07/2018 9:20:58 AM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Sounds like a mic drop moment.


2 posted on 03/07/2018 9:22:19 AM PST by PJBankard
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To: jazusamo

Where are the criminal charges for obstruction?


3 posted on 03/07/2018 9:24:25 AM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: jazusamo

People from Alabama have the true wisdom on this topic. Listen to him.


4 posted on 03/07/2018 9:24:30 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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“There is no nullification. There is no secession....

His statement is all well and good, but did he have to travel out of the country to make it?

5 posted on 03/07/2018 9:24:51 AM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: jazusamo

I’m glad he mentioned secessionist lunatics.


6 posted on 03/07/2018 9:25:19 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: jazusamo

Why won’t anyone ask Californians when they will begin conducting business in peso’s?

:)


7 posted on 03/07/2018 9:25:35 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: PJBankard

I watched part of AG Sessions speech, he sounded like he meant it and really hope he did.


8 posted on 03/07/2018 9:26:01 AM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Sessions needs to teach California a little about Big Government.


9 posted on 03/07/2018 9:26:19 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: jazusamo

Oooooo... strong words. Put them in a letter to really make in impact. /sarc


10 posted on 03/07/2018 9:26:28 AM PST by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Genoa

yeah alabama is great

this POS is nothig but warnings and threats and nothing.

worthles.

oh, and thanks alabama for that dem senator

you were joking in your post right?


11 posted on 03/07/2018 9:26:28 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: jazusamo
Gettysburg? Democrats could care less about Gettysburg!! They have a monument for John Wilkes Booth's manifesto... The GOP needs to stop attacking Nations and States and face off the terrorists, ie the DEMOCRAT PARTY and Communists... or more names of theirs will be written on Lincoln׳s bullet Why do you all think that attack on Congressmen went under the radar? The GOP are coward demagogues
12 posted on 03/07/2018 9:27:11 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Genoa

True wisdom but he won’t do a mother ####ing thing about it.

She should have been arrested already.

mueller dropping indictments like candy.

This POS does nothing.


13 posted on 03/07/2018 9:27:26 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: jazusamo

All bravado. Sessions is an impotent little elf entrenched in the deep state. This all for show.


14 posted on 03/07/2018 9:27:33 AM PST by Angels27
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To: dp0622

Put it this way: Even Sessions can figure it out.


15 posted on 03/07/2018 9:27:48 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: SMARTY

Large parts of Kalifornia already do.


16 posted on 03/07/2018 9:27:51 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (We need common sense FBI reform.)
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To: jazusamo

So in response, Sessions announces a lawsuit which will take years to work it’s way through the courts. How about some high profile arrests for obstruction and public endangerment?


17 posted on 03/07/2018 9:28:17 AM PST by Truth29
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18 posted on 03/07/2018 9:28:21 AM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: dp0622

Bingo

Session is a joke. Holder would have been on it day one


19 posted on 03/07/2018 9:28:22 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: jazusamo

Why won’t anyone ask Californians when they will begin conducting business in peso’s?

:)


20 posted on 03/07/2018 9:28:32 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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