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Wait just a god dam minute! I thought the GOP was the party of small government, and getting Gov. out of peoples' business? How come the WH is not opposing Sessions on this matter? Isn't the Conservative movement big on that State Rights thing?
Sessions has ended Obama era policies that allowed legal Marijuana to thrive. In response Colorado's Republican Senator Gardner has threatened to block all Justice Dept. nominees. Atleast 1 Republican is doing the right thing.
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.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-sen-gardner-torches-sessions-pot-crackdown-162956937.html
Sessions has ended Obama era policies that allowed legal Marijuana to thrive. In response Colorado's Republican Senator Gardner has threatened to block all Justice Dept. nominees. Atleast 1 Republican is doing the right thing.
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.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-sen-gardner-torches-sessions-pot-crackdown-162956937.html
