How You Know You’re Knocking on Hell’s Door
When your attorney general has lawyered up.
Charles Cooper, the well-known Republican lawyer, wasn’t simply in attendance at U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ congressional hearing one week ago to support his friend. Cooper is Sessions’ personal lawyer, he confirmed in an email Tuesday.
Cooper didn’t provide additional details on the nature of the representation—including whether it extends to the criminal inquiry into Trump campaign affiliates’ involvement with Russia.
The attorney general – the top law enforcement person in the whole damn country – has to have his own damn lawyer.
How ’bout just telling the truth, Jeff? How ’bout doing that?
Thanks to Kyle (a lawyer) for the heads up.
Sessions’ attorney is a real piece of work.
From Raw Story: “Chuck Cooper has been criticized for condoning discrimination during his long legal career, from support for Bob Jones’ University’s ban on interracial dating to supporting job discrimination against those with HIV/AIDS. Most recently, Cooper had a prominent role pushing legal discrimination against the LGBTQ community during the legal battles over Proposition 8 and marriage equality.”
Article contains video from the “Rachel Maddow Show” profiling this guy:
1http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/jeff-sessions-hires-attorney-who-defended-christian-school-that-banned-interracial-dating/
Tell the truth? Sessions wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him in the ass.
2@slipstream
Oh so true.
3@ easttxdem: Sessions’ lawyer is a bigot? Oh mercy, I clutched my pearls until the string broke.
4Slip, you have it right. I think truth did once bite Sessions on the ass. But got sick and didn’t want to bite again. Traitor trump has the dubious distinction of being the most corrupt in modern history. No morals at all. Just the evil, crude religion of greed. Confucius spoke for universal brotherhood. We could use his teachings now: love, benevolence , morals, virtuous rulers. That last is sorely missed as traitor trump has no virtues only vices. And now his Sec.State is trying to make a deal exchanging our cyber tech with Russia. That would be a disaster of monumental proportions.
5Tilphousia: Don’t know about the Tillerson cyber tech deal. But the Confucius thing? What about the Jesus thing? Everything Jesus said about how to treat others was said by Confucius and others before he came along. Which I find particularly interesting since right wing douchebags claim that our superiority over the rest of the world is because our founding fathers based our form of government on Christianity. Show of hands. How many people in this joint have heard “We’re good Christian people” in response from people being confronted with some douchebagery they’ve done? For decades, the right has invested heavily in their infrastructure. And that includes the idea that any form of empathy is weakness. Tough love. Lakoff’s idea of strict father ideology. Pushed to the extreme, you’ve got what passes for today’s center-right ideology. And the same people who claim Christian superiority demonstrate the most un-Christ-like behavior. I don’t think I’m saying this in the best possible way. That’s what I like about this joint. Other folks can help me refine my ideas.
6Even if I the your full of sh*t 🙂
7Sorry, sorry everyone for that last comment. It should have said “even if you’re full of sh*t”:-)
8Strange times we live in. Still in the first 6 months of CheetoJesus’ presidency.
9MAGA=Making Attorneys Get Attorneys
10OMG! We may never see these people ever again. They’ll only talk to us through their legal representative.
11That’s one smarmy little Keebler elf who deserves to be crushed under the wheels of a freight train like a cookie.
Scary. He has a wife and 3 children. The evil. It breeds.
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