Editorial,
The Week in Review – Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
01.14.2017
Senator Jeff Session of Alabama,
sat in front of his colleagues on the judiciary committee and lied to them
about his intentions. He has been nominated to be the Attorney General of the
United States, and while he has spent his career as a prosecutor, and his
career in politics, working in whatever way he could to undermine the rights of
citizens to vote, he sat in front of his colleagues and promised to defend.
He spent the last several
years in the senate advocating for the torture of prisoners, and then he lied
to his colleagues and told them he would oppose such measures as Attorney
General.
He sat before his
colleagues and pretended that he would dutifully challenge the President if the
President was engaged in some activities that were illegal, unconstitutional,
criminal, and yet in accepting the nomination to be Attorney General he has
tacitly signed on to serve a man who lies once every five minutes, who cannot (will
not) separate the office he has been elected to, from business interests, and
will be in violation of the constitution’s emolument clause, simply based on
the debt he owes to foreign banks, from the moment he is sworn in.
Donald Trump, the T-Rump,
will be in violation of the constitution from the first moment of his
Presidency, his nominee for the position of Attorney General, promises to
uphold the law, and at the same time refuses to see it.
The senate this week
voted to give a waiver to a General, James Mattis, former commandant of the Marine
Corps, so that he would eligible to serve as the Secretary of Defense. We have
laws in place to guarantee that our military is under civilian control, that
law requires the passage of at least seven years. Before a career military
official can serve as Secretary of defense.
Most observers believe
that James Mattis will the serve the country faithfully, and will possibly be a
moderating influence of President T-Rump, but it is an indictment of our
system, and the President Elect, that a
candidate for this post could not be found, who would not have required this
waiver.
It is vital to our
democracy, that our institutions continue to function the way that they were
intended, with the separation of powers, with the separation of church and
state, with the right of due process, with access to the ballot, and where the
freedom of speech includes the right to be heard, where the right to vote
includes the right to have you vote counted.
T-Rump is a threat to our
democracy.
