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Jan 15 2017
08:24 am

While being questioned during the confirmation hearings for attorney general, Sen. Sessions (R-AL), had to respond to questions regarding having previously criticized department attorneys for being secular.

Sessions replied that he has used that language about secular attorneys to differentiate between people who recognize objective “truth” and those who take positions “in which truth is not sufficiently respected.”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), replies with “And a secular person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is religious, correct?” At which point Sessions responded, “Well, I’m not sure.” For a few seconds the Senate chamber seemed to go completely silent.

Check out the video, about two-thirds in.

bizgrrl's picture

My head almost exploded. The

My head almost exploded. The Mr. had to calm me down for fear I would hurt myself.

This is going to be a tough term to watch. I've been avoiding a lot of the process but every now and then I read and watch, which reminds me why I maybe should not.

Rachel's picture

My inclination is to

My inclination is to hibernate as well, but it's important that we stay engaged. See you at the Knoxville Women's March next Saturday?

fischbobber's picture

Government

I fear our nation has reached the point where we have what we deserve, and it's not the best.

Average Guy's picture

"Not sure"?

I'm sure that in all my years following American politics, that's the most Unamerican thing I've ever heard a politician say.

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III represents the antithesis of our framers.

Mike Knapp's picture

Sessions is an absolutist Xn dominionist

Sessions reflects that strain of Xn dominionist absolutism (see Rushdoony below) wrt to many concepts including legal theory aka concepts of biblical law. In their world view there are legal and other absolute truths that do not change with time. Therefore "secular attorneys" cannot know the truth beause the truth is non-secular. This is the world-view of the man nominated for USAG. Sarah Diamond and Chip Berlet are a couple go-to writers who analyze this world-view.

Dominionism and Dominion Theology

From Reconstructionism to Dominionism, Part 1 by Southern Baptist Minister Bruce Prescott:

If Rushdoony and his disciples have their way, democracy will be abolished and a Christian theocracy will be established. A theocracy based on the Bible along the lines of John Cotton's Massachusetts Bay Colony. Rushdoony wrote, "The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion." (p. 113) He also made it clear that he expects that force will be necessary to impose such order, "Every law-order is in a state of war against the enemies of that order, and all law is a form of warfare." (p. 93)

Average Guy's picture

I'm guessing,

Hammurabi would prove problematic for Beauregard.

Fortunately, Hammurabi was dead before God created the Earth, so Jeffy need not worry his terrifyingly insulated head about it.

Andy Axel's picture

What is "juriprudidential?"

What is "juriprudidential?"

tlc's picture

Hah

Thanks for pointing that one out in the video, Andy. Sessions did mispronounce the correct word, but managed to at least include the requisite "s" letter, missing from your rendering here. He still sounds like a rube.

I'll go with: "Jurisprudidential"...a new technique developed to whiten your teeth in under ten minutes. Emphasis on "whiten."

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