They couldn't get Al Capone for bootlegging, much less murder, but they got him for tax evasion — and that was good enough. Jeff Sessions can get away with being a fascist; but if we can dump him for being a liar, that's good enough too.
Just before "the Russian connection" hit the news, Sessions was making something less of a stir for deciding the Justice Department no longer had to investigate racist police departments, nor enforce agreements already secured by Loretta Lynch to alleviate abusive practices by police in Baltimore and Chicago. For Sessions (and for Tr*mp as well), the problem is that police haven't been aggressive enough. Sessions also has shown no interest in protecting anybody's civil rights, unless you count the "religious rights" of Bible bigots to discriminate against the LGBT. He will not prosecute infringements of voting rights, and backs the same old "states' rights" arguments that justified Jim Crow.
Speaking of fascism, Tr*mp's "VOICE" program, which will publicize crimes committed specifically by immigrants, is chillingly reminiscent of Hitler's program to publicize crimes committed specifically by Jews. Fascists always need an "enemy within" to justify authoritarian overreach; and as Dietrich Bonhoeffer would observe if he were here today, after they come for the immigrants, they'll be coming for you.
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