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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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Jeff Sessions has been AG for 1 year, 26 days.


21 posted on 03/07/2018 9:29:08 AM PST by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: jazusamo
Federal law is the supreme law of the land.

AS LONG AS that federal law is PURSUANT to the U.S. Constitution, which is the Supreme Law of the Land (Art VI, Cl.2).

The Constitution trumps federal law. The Constitution is the ONLY SOURCE of authority for valid federal laws and acts. It the federal law or act is not constitutional, it is not valid, and should be rejected, resisted, and nullified by the states.

Here, the issue is federal immigration law, which authority the Constitution has delegated to the feds, so the feds are in the right and California is in the wrong.

22 posted on 03/07/2018 9:29:11 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: JudgemAll

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

Holder would have arrested any cop that went after an illegal.

Sessions will do nothing but talk.


23 posted on 03/07/2018 9:31:56 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: jazusamo

Actually, the nullification crisis was over powers actually delegated to the federal. As in the case here.

There hasn’t been a nullification crisis over powers not delegated to the federal but reserved to the States or the people. Things like regulation of commerce within States or saying things that affect interstate commerce but which are not actually interstate commerce may be regulated. There really needs to be a LOT of that sort of nullification!


24 posted on 03/07/2018 9:32:23 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: jazusamo

Screw you hypocritical FReepers. Bashing Sessions nonstop. Hell with all of ya’ll hating mofos.


26 posted on 03/07/2018 9:34:55 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If the illegal immigration issue were Social Security, it'd be privatized by now.)
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To: jazusamo
"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."

Oh, she dared you. How did you respond? Did you charge her with obstruction?

27 posted on 03/07/2018 9:34:59 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: jazusamo
Gov. Jerry Brown (D) called the lawsuit a “political stunt.” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said the Trump administration was attempting to “bully California.”

Jerry Brown and Kamala Harris, projecting again.


28 posted on 03/07/2018 9:35:50 AM PST by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: jazusamo
Watching for actions, not words.
Sessions does not impress.
Arrest that mayor and anyone who operates sanctuary's then, maybe I would be impressed.
I think Sessions is nothing more than a posturing self aggrandizing political whore.
He was a Senator after all.
29 posted on 03/07/2018 9:36:49 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: jazusamo

All talk. How about some arrest warrants.


30 posted on 03/07/2018 9:37:27 AM PST by pt17
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To: jazusamo

If we won’t let them leave, can we at least kick them out?


31 posted on 03/07/2018 9:37:47 AM PST by null and void ("If you see something say something." "If we say something *DO* something!!!")
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To: jazusamo

The La Raza Politburo in Sacramento does not care Mr. Sessions.

Unless those People are put in Orange Jumpsuits and Shackles, they will continue to push their Agenda.


33 posted on 03/07/2018 9:38:38 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: C210N

LOL! He went to Kaliforniastan to make sure the point was not missed - if he prevails, the rest of the sanctuary cities are done...


34 posted on 03/07/2018 9:39:27 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: jazusamo

I’d have to disagree.

It’s not settled. Before the iron fist of the sainted Lincoln came down, secession was not a question. It had been threatened before and simply not carried out. But no one griped about it.

Why on earth would we forbid separation when that is what we did ourselves?

Further, why would one want to force “union” with those who have such enmity against the rest?


35 posted on 03/07/2018 9:39:38 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: jazusamo

Specific lawsuits are being filed against Moonbeam (Brown) and one of his goons. That will be good. Get out the popcorn.


36 posted on 03/07/2018 9:39:44 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: dp0622

I like to think that someone has explained to Sessions that he needs to exert himself on this one or else.


37 posted on 03/07/2018 9:39:53 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Brilliant

Sessions is all about Big Government. Even against the occasional Leftist.


38 posted on 03/07/2018 9:40:47 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Albion Wilde
Jerry Brown, Mayor Schaaf and Kamala Harris are three rotten peas in a pod.
39 posted on 03/07/2018 9:41:01 AM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and ?)
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To: jazusamo

I can’t help but think Sessions was on Petticoat Junction everytime I watch him speak.


40 posted on 03/07/2018 9:41:08 AM PST by kjam22
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