Sessions rips judge's decision to restore DACA program

[riversedge]

Source: Politico





08/06/2018 03:22 PM EDT


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Sessions said in a statement that the Justice Department will “take every lawful measure” to defend the decision to terminate the Obama-era program, which offers deportation relief to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

"The last administration violated its duty to enforce our immigration laws by directing and implementing a categorical, multipronged non-enforcement immigration policy for a massive group of illegal aliens,” Sessions said.

The Trump administration “simply reestablished the legal policies consistent with the law,” the attorney general added.

D.C.-based U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled Friday that the Trump administration must accept new DACA applications, but he delayed the effective date of the ruling to allow time for a possible appeal.....................

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/06/jeff-sessions-daca-restart-764874

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Sessions rips federal judge for 'improperly' reinstating DACA, 'eviscerating' executive power


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/06/sessions-rips-federal-judge-for-improperly-reinstating-daca-eviscerating-executive-power.html


By Gregg Re | Fox News


Federal judges have since barred the administration from ending the program entirely, saying the government's rationale is arbitrary and legally insufficient, but the ruling by U.S. District Judge John Bates went a step further by ordering authorities to reinstate it.

In a statement, Sessions decried Bates' ruling as one of a "number of decisions in which courts have improperly used judicial power to steer, enjoin, modify, and direct executive policy."


Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that while the Trump administration has the power to rescind DACA, it must legally provide a "rational explanation for its decision."

The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) is a federal law that prohibits agencies from enacting new policies -- or getting rid of old ones -- for reasons that are "arbitrary and capricious," or lacking any rational basis.

The judge concluded that under the APA, the Trump administration's lawyers had offered only a "conclusory assertion that a prior policy is illegal, accompanied by a hodgepodge of illogical or post hoc policy assertions." Bates added that this approach "simply will not do," although he emphasized that there is nothing that would prevent the administration from ending DACA if it could provide a workable justification.

[Va Lefty]

1. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III shocked he can't legally care out racist policies

Threatens secession!

[Freethinker65]

2. I would love to see Sessions try to argue the case himself

[John Fante]

3. There are only a handful of big name right-wingers I literally would not

help if they were drowning.

Trump
Bannon
Alex Jones
Stephen Miller
Arpaio

And that's pretty much it. I'm tempted to add Sessions to that list. He is a despicable piece of trash.

[pangaia]

5. I an think of quite a few more ...

shits who are just a little sneakier...

[Ohiogal]

6. Pence

[pangaia]

7. rubio, cruz, collins, ingraham(?), hannity, limbaugh, ....on and on and on..

they are all evil beings....

[John Fante]

12. I loathe those individuals with a passion.

But if they were drowning, I'd help them.

Sessions is borderline though. What a wretched POS he is.

[Flaleftist]

9. McConnell?

[Biden My Time]

10. Yep

and Ryan too!

[sheshe2]

4. Session's rips judge's decision...

Doubtful, the little elf wouldn't be able to rip open a pack of Keebler's.

[llmart]

14. LOL!

I was going to say a similar thing such as "Sessions rips...I can't imagine that little turd "ripping" anyone". However, your response is much funnier. Love it!

By the way, has anyone else noticed that in that picture he resembles Artie Johnson on Laugh In back in the day? "Wanna Walnetto?"

[sheshe2]

15. Thanks, llmart. :)

You're right, he does resemble Artie. lol~ loved his characters.

[pecosbob]

8. Lawful measures? Why pull punches?

You didn't seem to have any problem using unlawful measures to get your snake oil salesman into the Oval Office...

[caraher]

11. "every lawful measure"

Guess what - the judge basically just declared there are no such lawful measures unless and until the administration provides a rational basis for reversing DACA. And the evidence, provide by Trump's failure to provide any, is that no such basis exists.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. "courts have improperly used judicial power to steer, enjoin, modify, and direct executive policy."

It's called "CHECK AND BALANCE". THAT is their role. When the Executive and/or Legislative Branches get carried away, the Judicial Branch is supposed to step in.

[Snellius]

16. And another judge appointed by Bush

Repubs have done a good job packing the courts with Repubs. Didn't figure that, once outside of direct partisan pressure, some of their worst enemies would be themselves.