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Jeff Sessions: The DOJ 'Will Not Partner With Groups That Unfairly Defame Americans' Like the SPLC
PJMedia ^ | 8 August,2018 | Tyler O'Neil

Posted on 08/08/2018 5:41:38 PM PDT by marktwain

On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions denounced the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for weaponizing its "hate group" designations against conservative organizations, and pledged that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will not partner with hate groups or groups that defame Americans. He spoke in front of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian legal organization that has won 9 Supreme Court cases in the last seven years and that has been unfairly defamed as a "hate group" by the SPLC.

"I have ordered a review at the Department of Justice to make sure that we do not partner with any groups that discriminate," the attorney general declared. "We will not partner with groups that unfairly defame Americans for standing up for the Constitution or their faith."

He made this promise shortly after explaining the history of the Southern Poverty Law Center. "People of faith are facing a new hostility. Really, a bigoted ideology which is founded on animus towards people of faith," Sessions declared. "You'll notice that they don't rely on the facts. They don't make better arguments. They don't propose higher ideals. No, they just call people names—like 'hate group.'"

"Does that sound familiar?" Sessions quipped.

"You know I’m from Alabama—the home of the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that did important work in the South, vital work at a pivotal time," the attorney general explained.

He admitted that "there were hate groups in the South I grew up in. They attacked the life, liberty, and the very worth of minority citizens."

Sessions recalled working with the SPLC to secure the death penalty for a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adf; ag; agsessions; antichristianbigotry; hategroup; sessions; splc
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To: marktwain

He hasn’t done anything. He made a fairly bland statement about a known scumbag organization. No action. Nothing. He’s weak and useless.


21 posted on 08/08/2018 6:13:28 PM PDT by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: marktwain

I’ll give him that. This was a positive message and realignment of priorities.


22 posted on 08/08/2018 6:13:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: raiderboy
ROFL! Good point.

He wakes up for immigration but ignores the rest of the job.

Granny do the right thing and step down.

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23 posted on 08/08/2018 6:13:43 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: lizma2

Granny had spunk.

She was fearless.

Jeff... ???


24 posted on 08/08/2018 6:15:48 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Didn’t know that but am not surprised the weak Deep State scumbag Sessions did so.


25 posted on 08/08/2018 6:15:56 PM PDT by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: marktwain

Sessions can live with his depts in the act of trying to take our President out... while there are criminals all around him.. top officials, all guilty of crimes.. and he does nothing!

The very ones attacking Trump, are the ones guilty of crimes that are being overlooked. How could this happen in the United States!


26 posted on 08/08/2018 6:18:59 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: raiderboy
Who the hell is this guy?

Some white trash d00d that comes out yells something every few months.

Just ignore him.

27 posted on 08/08/2018 6:21:30 PM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: lizma2

great picture


28 posted on 08/08/2018 6:39:37 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will "shut down the government to get the WALL in September"r)
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To: Electric Graffiti

But other Republicans said they would vote for Mr. Holder despite his acknowledged mistakes. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, for example, said he was sure that Mr. Holder would be “a responsible legal officer and not a politician.”

Good grief! Has Rip always been this stupid???


29 posted on 08/08/2018 6:59:16 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: marktwain

Easy there, Jeff...

You dont want to appear TOO AGRESSIVE when it comes to fighting corruption...

People might think you’re a big meanie guy!


30 posted on 08/08/2018 7:05:15 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: marktwain; All
‘The SPLC has been a hate group against constitutionalists and Second Amendment supporters for decades.’

The SPLC is also a major player in the Confederate statue removal campaign and definitely used its financial resources to attempt to destroy the Sons of Confederate Veterans by paying certain SCV officers in some North Carolina camps to attempt to start a movement to split the SCV by creating a fake entity called the “Real SCV’ as opposed to the racist SCV. The effort failed but caused a lot of heart burn and lasting bad feelings in the NC SCV department. SPLC is excrement as is its leader.

31 posted on 08/08/2018 7:11:24 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: marktwain

Designate them as a hate group and get it over with. That’s all they are anyway.


32 posted on 08/08/2018 7:15:38 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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To: marktwain
Jeff Sessions is a worthless POS!

Oh..wait! I forgot, he's a GREAT 4D chess player. /s

33 posted on 08/08/2018 7:35:41 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: marktwain

Denouncing them by name is a very big deal. I have to think that CNN and the usual suspects won’t highlight this development, at least not right away, but the VP talking smack about the SPLC is another pendulum that is starting to reverse. Actions speak louder than words, of course, so we’ll see.


34 posted on 08/08/2018 7:36:01 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: marktwain

Good. The SPLC is a Leftist hate group and must not be legitimized by any governmental body.


35 posted on 08/08/2018 9:41:05 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: marktwain

More winning. The federal government should never use a hyper-partisan leftist organization like the SPLC. I was briefed by folks who used the SPLC as a source and they basically told me that all white people are racists.

More winning, please.

JoMa


36 posted on 08/09/2018 2:03:28 AM PDT by joma89
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To: raiderboy

“Who is this guy?”

Oh, he is the AG. He is in charge of the justice department, the FBI and all elements of the legal system in the United States.


37 posted on 08/09/2018 5:08:30 AM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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