The People Versus Jeff Sessions ... Trun(P)cating American Civil Liberties

This week Jeff Sessions was sworn in as the new Attorney General of the United States. Very appalling, considering his record on minority rights and access to the polls for blacks. His abissmal records on civil rights and racial eqaulity are public records. These in part earned him the ire of being the first nominee that had a sitting senator and colleaque of his testifying against his confirmation. Senator Terry Booker alerted the nation that Sessions has never cured himself of his racial bias from his days as Alabama's Attorney General and that there is nothing in his record that will lend us to believe he will be a zealot advocate for minority rights and equal access to the protections of our Laws and Constitution as is required by his current portfolio as the Chief Law enforcer for the nation.

The Digital Editor is even more perturbed about the links between Jeff Sessions and the President. One of the earliest endorsers of President Donald Trump, Sessions came out for Trump at the time when he was tagged to be the least favored to win the Rebublican nomination. Sessions early endorsement happened at the time when Trump called all Mexicans lazy, Drug Dealers and rapists, showed his strong disdain for blacks accussing them of living in sqaulor and crime ridden neigborhoods, disparaged a renowned National Hero of the Stature of Senator McCain and curried favors with White Supremacist groups, just to mention a few. His excesses were scary enough that the Republican leader Mitt Romney called a prime time news conference to urge Republicans to reject the Candidacy of Donald Trump.

As Sessions assumes office working as Attorney General, a position he earned only as a reward and not on merit, we remind him that he is under oath to serve the people and not the President. The attorney General is required by our Laws to check the excesses of those we have put in power. This aspect of Mr. Sessions job description cannot be overstated especially as we have seen in the first weeks of this administration how much disdain he has for the checks and balances imposed by our Constitution for hs despotic tendencies. Recently, in a sweeping Executive Order, he abrogatted the rights of Green Card holders who are lawful permanent residents to return to the Country from visiting overseas. Without any specific intelligence he singled out six majority Muslim Countries for outright ban from visiting the Country irrespective of reason or status. This ban caught so many U.S. Military interpreters and owners of businesses in the United States off guard.

Americans will be watching to see if Sessions is working for the People or helping Trump to avoid being caught in the web of our Laws. In a recent interview, Mayor Gulliani confirmed tto a News Media that the President asked him to assemble a Panel to help him execute his promised ban on Muslims in a way that will be adjudged to be legal under our Laws. We will be curious how many more orders to Mr. Sessions to get around our Laws Mr. Trump will give for rewarding Sessions for his electoral loyalty. My guess is that none of them will be rebuffed. The President has often boasted about his insatiable desire for loyalty. It is my contention that this administration will go down in record history as the regime in which the rights of our citizens and trampled upon the most not only because the President has no respect for them but because he has aligned himself with an Attorney General who got there by going along with all the excesses of President Trump and much more worrisome is that apart from his loyalty to Mr. Trump, perharps, Mr. Sessions shares those excesses and disdain for equal protections under our Laws. The conjoined partnership between a rascal President and a Law Officer who is poised to look the other way or even help with getting around our Laws will soon pit The People against Jeff Sessions Department of Justice.

Charles Abiahu Esq.