LF: Republican Sen. Gardner torches Sessions over pot reversal

WASHINGTON — Sen. Cory Gardner, R.-Colo., on Thursday threatened to block all nominees to Justice Department posts in response to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision to end Obama-era policies that let legal marijuana thrive. Gardner also warned that the looming Justice Department announcement would make things harder for 2018 Republican candidates in states where pot is legal.

“It certainly lights up a new challenge for them,” Gardner told Yahoo News in a telephone interview.

The Colorado lawmaker said Sessions had personally promised him prior to his confirmation that he would not take steps to tighten enforcement of federal pot laws.

“I’m prepared to hold every Justice Department nominee until Jeff Sessions lives up to what he told me, lives up to his commitment,” Gardner said. A “hold” is a senatorial threat, frequently invoked to gain leverage over the executive branch, to filibuster nominees.

“Jeff Sessions told me this wouldn’t be a priority. Jeff Sessions told me the policy would not be reversed, and today Jeff Sessions went back on his word,” the senator said.

Gardner said Sessions made the assurances in “a call specifically set up because I would not release my vote [to confirm him as attorney general] until I got an answer.”

“He said, ‘This is just not something that President Trump is focused on.’ And apparently, it’s not just a focus, it’s a primary initiative of the new year,” Gardner fumed.

The senator’s comments came after the Associated Press reported that Sessions would let federal prosecutors in states where marijuana is legal determine how tightly to enforce federal laws that prohibit growing, selling, buying and using pot. Eight states and the District of Columbia have passed laws legalizing marijuana for recreational use. In Gardner’s home state of Colorado, pot has become big business, though constrained by some federal laws that hamper the industry’s ability to use U.S. banks.

“What it means is uncertainty, instability and a thumbing of noses at the people of Colorado,” where legalized marijuana is a $2 billion industry, supporting thousands of jobs and generating millions of dollars in tax revenue, Gardner said.

During the 2016 campaign, Trump said “it’s up to the states” to decide whether marijuana is legal. Asked whether he would order a federal crackdown on pot, he replied: “I wouldn’t do that, no.”

Pointing to that exchange, Gardner told Yahoo News: “President Trump was right. Why does Jeff Sessions think he was wrong?”

The announcement put the Trump administration at odds with an important ally: Gardner heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee — the party organization devoted to retaining the GOP’s Senate majority. In that capacity, he withdrew NRSC support from Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore in the Alabama special election, which yielded a surprise Democratic upset victory. Trump had thrown his support to Moore, despite sexual misconduct allegations against the former judge.

The announcement could also complicate Republican fortunes in states like California, amid growing GOP concerns that the 2018 political climate could generate a Democratic wave that risks swamping their House majority.

Gardner noted that he himself had opposed legalizing marijuana “but the people of Colorado felt otherwise.”

“If you’re a Republican in Washington, if you’re a Republican in California, if you’re a Republican in other states that have legalized, then this becomes a significant barrier toward understanding this administration’s policy,” he said.

What are you tagging me for? I've always stated that Enforcement of pot is a great big waste of time. Might as well legalize it. The lazy, unmotivated high shitbags can work for you, DickTard.

Maybe President Trump and Jeff Sessions need to have a "Weed Summit" with Ivanka and Al Gore?

More importantly and now most recently, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday that President Trump "strongly believes" in enforcing federal law against marijuana possession, a major reversal from his campaign-trail support for state autonomy.

I hope your thought process and attention span improves during your manliness recovery.

You need to find some way to stay abreast of these important happenings, Deckard.

However, Gardner In the foremost place must defend th Constitution which he has sworn to follow. And contained therein is Article VI, Clause 2, (aka the Supremacy Clause) which establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the supreme law of the land. It provides that state courts are bound by the supreme law; in case of conflict between federal and state law, the federal law must be applied. Even state constitutions are subordinate to federal law. In essence, it is a conflict-of-laws rule specifying that certain federal acts take priority over any state acts that conflict with federal law.¹

Prohibition was pursuant to the Constitution via an amendment, federal drug legislation NOT.

Prohibitionists claim that the Feds have power to prosecute citizens of those states who have legalized marijuana because some guy named Filburn grew too much wheat.

So, I have time to listen, if you care to explain why “federal drug legislation“ is as you so boldly state....unconstitutional.

The federal government points to its enumerated power to regulate interstate commerce, and then attempts to pass a lot of laws with little to do with commerce through that gap (losing spectacularly in a case where a federal law tried to create gun free zones around schools saying it could because of the interstate commerce clause).

Someone growing marijuana in their yard, though, is hardly interstate commerce. Indeed, it may never leave that address, let alone cross state lines. Add to that the fact that the Constitution clearly reserves “police powers”–the historic general authority to make laws about health, safety, welfare and commerce–to the states; they’re not delegated to the federal government.

The fact is regulating marijuana is not a power the Constitution spells out as a federal one, so it is for the states to handle, or the people to keep for themselves via the Tenth Amendment.

Nah, it can be more properly express and better explained by saying that he had a “propositional attitude” at one point while he was a business man and also while he was running for office....and then he had an “attitude adjustment” in an evaluating way after he became President upon fully realizing he must enforce federal laws.

“Flip-flop” sounds so crudely gutter-like talk. We shouldn’t use that because the dignity of the office of President of the United States deserves better than that.

Oh, you haven’t fully realized yet that Donald Trump is loaded with surprises? Then you haven’t been paying much attention to what is going on. You need to stay away from the trashy yellow journalism sites and then you may become adequately and correctly informed.

Oh, you haven’t fully realized yet that Donald Trump is loaded with surprises?

From the link that Deckard provided above - Justice Clarence Thomas said it well...

You're with the "Wise Latina", and the two other dumb lesbians on the SCOTUS. There's a few too many McCain canaries there!

Which is exactly what statists like Gatlin have wet dreams about - total control by fed.gov.

R's can pull the same lousy shit that the D's do but it's fine and dandy because - wait for it - they are Republicans.

You surely have enough remaining sense to realize that anything expressed in those few words ever, ever, ”says it all” for me.

Well, glory be. You actually said SOMETHING without having to resort to yet another boring stupid meme or link to a someplace where you let others speak for you....because you have no original ideas or the ability to express them if you had.

Now, since you have shown that you cannot intelligently respond to my posts, why don’t you go back to your room and sit there for a while until you can come up with something worthwhile for me to listen do. Verstain?

There is absolutely no way you can you show the federal drug legislation (federal laws) are not Constitutional.

Consider this: Article I, § 8, of the Constitution provides that Congress may raise and support an Army....provide and maintain a Navy.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that Congress may raise and support an Air Force or provide and maintain an Air Force.

It started out that the Army needed support with another tater peeler by the name of gatlin aka tater. And as tyme happens in the US government (like shit), an entire bureaucratic boon-doogle happened, called the AirForce.

No matter how we attempt to kick that shit off the soles of our boots, it sticks around.

Liberals are like Slinkys. They're good for nothing, but somehow they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.

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