I agree with Sessions on this. Although he has vowed (by oath) to protect and defend the Constitution, there ARE some limits on the 1st Amendment, such as yelling “FIRE” in a crowded theater. He should say “I vowed by oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution against foreign AND DOMESTIC foes.” Steve Bannon is part of the press. It’s not unlikely that Bannon could do something that would challenge the balance between the 1st Amendment and national security.
It’s then left up to the courts to determine that balance.
JFC on a motherfucking buttered bagel
Someone give that fucker a map and point him to what country he’s living in.
No Sessions you cannot jail journalist because you think it is a good idea
“…at this point”???
At the risk of calling down the wrath of the liberal gods would somebody tell me just exactly what was wrong with Session’s statement? I think it was reasonably nuanced.
Totally see your perspective. Its just when it comes from the mouth of anyone in administration, but especially sessions, it gives one serious pause. Especially when he states that they haven’t gone after journalists “yet”.
This man cannot be trusted with the office that he holds. That I am confident about.
Sends shivers…
I think that comment is meant to send shivers.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions would not give a straight answer to Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) request to confirm that he will not put reporters in jail “for doing their jobs.”
“I don’t know if I can make a blanket commitment to that effect,” Sessions said during his hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He needs to be removed from office, along with Moronic Donnie Two Scoops. He is obviously unaware of the First Amendment.
Let me get this straight, the Attorney General of the United States won’t make a blanket commitment to the Bill of Rights? Am I getting this right?
Of course the crux of the biscuit is what constitutes a “foe”. For Example: Reporting that President Bonespur did not contact the families of fallen soldiers, then lied about previous Potus policies is not working against the country.
Yes, you are getting it right. The only exception is the Second Amendment. Because that Amendment is sacred.
Un-fucking-believable.
If this little racist fecal stain wants a second civil war, he’s doing a hell of a job in getting it started. Go ahead, Sessions, make our day.
“But I would say this, we have not taken any aggressive action against the media at this point,”
Which implies that he would do it at the drop of a hat if he felt like it. I don’t think he sees the 1st as meaning anything if it gets in the way of what little trumpian racist crap he wants to do.
It’s big of him not to have started jailing reporters so far, but there’s literally no guarantee that he won’t start tomorrow if it suits his empty soul. And his notion of Constitutional protections ain’t our notion of Constitutional protections.
If you have to be told what’s wrong with his statement, you are well beyond help.
We do not jail journalists in the US for doing their jobs.
Period.
There are lots of other ways he could have weaseled this. But he chose the most-fascist version. (Yes, I have a dog in this fight; twice in my early days as a cub reporter I and the publication I worked for were threatened and told not to publish material that some bureaucrat deemed classified. Once told to lock all copies of the manuscript in a safe until a military escort could be sent to take them for destruction. Both times the claims about national security were worse than complete crap.)
I was heartbroken I never made Nixon’s Enemies List, and I’m no longer a working journalist, but I’d be first in line to incur this cur’s wrath. Just TRY it, MF.
No one Trumps the Constitution!
“See how my fist is balled-up? I’m not going to use it right now, but just look at it…”
Well, you are simply wrong. Don’t believe me ask Judith Miller, Matthew Cooper or Josh Wolf or any of several dozen others who have been jailed for doing their job during the last century. The US government has long taken the position that any reporter’s privilege is limited. Journalists disagree and have gone to jail over and over again. This isn’t new to Trump. It has been the government’s position for a long long time.
That you call Judith Fucking Miller a journalist shows that I was correct.
What Sessions failed to do was deal with the limitations of the First Amendment—he refused to say that journalists would not be jailed for reporting the facts.