[Content Note: Nativism.]
"When we depart from the law and create nebulous legal standards out of a sense of sympathy for the personal circumstances of a respondent in our immigration courts, we do violence to the rule of law and constitutional fabric that bind this great nation." — Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a speech to 44 newly-hired immigration judges in training.
I don't know which is worse: The Attorney General of the United States telling judges to behave like sociopaths when dealing with people who are, in many cases, fleeing oppression and/or deadly violence, or Donald Trump's chief lackey saying without a trace of irony that showing basic human kindness is tantamount to doing "violence to the rule of law."
Like I always say: Malice is the governing principle of the Trump Regime. And here is the AG warning new immigration judges that to refuse to center malice in their decisions is essentially sedition.
Welp.
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