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Amal Looney: Trump's ideas would break international human rights laws
Washington (CNN)International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney warned that President-elect Donald Trump's policies would harm Muslim Americans in the US and across the world.
Really Amal, you anorectic toothpick...Trump has killed more followers of Islam than your fellow Muslims among ISIS, al-Queda, Boko Haram, and the Taliban?
You got to stop listening to George and get out more.
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Speaking at a Texas women's conference this week, she said some of Trump's ideas would break international human rights laws.
"(His comments) that there should be a religious test imposed on entering the US or the fact that there should be state-sponsored torture or that families of suspected terrorists should all be killed -- all of those things are violations of international human rights law and the values that underlie that," she said at the conference, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
She continued: "I think there's some concern from abroad as to, 'Are these things actually going to happen or is the US going to lose some of the moral standing that it has internationally?'"
Clooney, who is married to progressive actor and former Hillary Clinton supporter George Clooney, tried to make peace with the idea of a Trump administration at the conference.
"We have to hope for the best," she told the audience, which was made up of more than 7,000 people. "The president-elect has said that fighting ISIS is actually a priority ... so it may be that there can be progress, and obviously everyone has to respect the outcome of the democratic process here, and we have to hope for the best."
She also told the women in the audience that they have to advocate for each other going forward.
"Women's rights," she said, quoting Clinton, "are human rights. Holding back women is holding back half of every country in the world."
Let's be honest Amal.
What religion is No. 1 when it comes to oppressing women?
Let's be honest Amal.
What religion is No. 1 when it comes to oppressing women?
Get out the violin
Could you cope seeing your children for just three minutes every year? Separated Mexican families are given brief reunion at charity-run border opening... but Trump's wall is likely to end even that
Could you believe this headline?
They made the choice. So they abandoned their families, broke our laws coming here illegally, and we're the bad guy? Go back to wherever the hell they came from and they can be with their family 24 hours a day. Try pulling this crap in any other country around the world and see how many "family visits" they get. The United States simply cannot be the International Warehouse for every lost soul looking for greener pastures. What about the people waiting in line to immigrate here legally? How is that fair to them?
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In a scene that could potentially become non-existent under a Donald Trump presidency, Mexican families on either side of the US-Mexican border were briefly united Saturday for Universal Children's Day.
The touching reunions happened with the full cooperation of border control on each side of the fence that splits the US from its neighbor to the south.
One of Trump's main campaign promises was to build a wall between the two countries, and he reiterated his commitment to it recently on '60 Minutes.' He has also vowed to expel millions of undocumented Mexican immigrants.
Members of the Hernandez family tearfully reunite through the border at Playas de Tijuana
Gonzalez family members hug each other as they meet through the border fence
Relatives separated by immigration hug at an open gate on the fence along the two countries
The reunion, which allowed family and friends to hug and kiss for a few minutes, happened at the fence on the Tijuana-San Diego border.
The door opening was organized by pro-migrants NGOs and local authorities in coordination with the United States Border Patrol.
The gate, along Border Field State Park in California, was also opened for a few minutes in 2015 and 2013.
In August and November, the border at El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, was opened for exactly three minutes.
Relatives comfort each other along the Tijuana border during a humanitarian event
A family on the Mexican side chats with relatives after a brief open gate event - normally the mesh gate's openings are too small to allow people to touch
'We ask ourselves: 'What has happened to the U.S.?' We are going back to the 1960s, where we saw all this hatred, racism, and now this is 2016 and we haven't advanced at all,' activist Roberto Vivar told Reuters.
Trump's plan for a wall seems to have galvanized immigrants from Central America, fleeing poverty and war conditions, who are coming over in record numbers, hoping to seek amnesty in America before the dreaded wall may go up, according toThe Boston Globe.
Families shed tears after seeing each other during a brief softening of the border laws
A US border patrol agent opens a gate on the fence along the Mexico and U.S border as people wait to see their relatives
A woman looks through the wire mesh fence of the border (left); members of the Gonzalez family hug each other and are briefly reunited
Families, some of whom hadn't seen each other in years, had strong reactions to being briefly reunited
Touching scenes were everywhere as families were allowed to reunite through the border
Two members of the Hernandez family hug and cry as they are reunited on the border
Two members of the Hernandez family are overcome with emotion as they meet again
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Friday, November 18, 2016
Interesting...
Trump's attorney general pick is about to come face to face with decades-old allegations of racism
Jeff Sessions. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
Funny...The left and their cheerleaders, the MSM, didn't seem to have any problem with his predecessors.
This one got two border patrol agents killed and over 300 Mexicans in a catastrophe called F&F.
This one tried to rig the presidential election claiming she "accidently" bumped into Bill Clinton for 45 minutes, whose wife was running for POTUS, and simultaneously the target of a criminal FBI investigation, of which she would make the final judgment.
Yep, these two are as pure as the driven snow!
Oh, and this guy served as a senator from January 3, 1959 to June 28, 2010 and was actually a MEMBER of the KKK.
Check it yourself.
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Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is about to face a wave of intense scrutiny as he seeks confirmation to become attorney general and head the Justice Department in President-elect Donald Trump's upcoming administration.
Trump said Friday that it was an "honor to nominate" a "world-class legal mind" to the position. Sessions said, should he be confirmed, that he will give "all my strength to advance" its "highest ideals" and will be dedicated to "fairness and impartiality."
But Sessions is likely to face heavy examination over his overall record, as well as decades-old allegations of racism that are now certain to be hashed out in public.
Sessions, prior to his 20-year Senate career, served as a US attorney and as attorney general of Alabama. While serving as a US attorney for the state's southern district, he was nominated to be a federal district court judge by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
His nomination, however, was rejected by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee — a committee on which he now serves — because of racially charged comments and actions that he denied. It was only the second time in nearly 50 years the committee stunted a judicial nomination.
J. Gerald Hebert, then working on voting-rights cases for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, spent time in Alabama working with Sessions. He testified in front of the panel that Sessions was "not a very sensitive person when it comes to race relations." Hebert testified that Sessions had said a white lawyer described as a race traitor "probably is," and that the ACLU and NAACP were "communist-inspired."
Thomas Figures, a former assistant US attorney who died last year, provided back up to Hebert's testimony on Sessions regarding organizations such as the NAACP. Sessions testified that he recalled saying that "when" such civil-rights organizations "demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position," he said.
Figures, who worked with Sessions, said he was warned by the now-Alabama senator to "be careful what you say to white folks" after Figures, the only black assistant US attorney in the office, told a white secretary that she had made an offensive comment. He also testified that Sessions and two others in the office had called him "boy," which Sessions categorically denied.
"I have never used the word 'boy' to describe a black, nor would I tolerate it in my office," Sessions testified.
Figures also said Sessions remarked that he thought Ku Klux Klan members were "OK," until he found out they smoked marijuana. Sessions later testified that he was joking.
Sessions was also accused of voicing complaints about the Voting Rights Act.
Hebert, who now works as the director of voting rights and redistricting program at the Campaign Legal Center, told Business Insider that he was "extremely unhappy to hear" Sessions was selected for the post.
"Because I think that he has a demonstrated record of anti-civil rights [and] anti-equality," Hebert said Friday. "I don't think he has a good grasp on issues about voting rights. I think a lot of his views are just plain wrong in light of facts."
"He has opinions that are based on suspicion rather than facts," he continued. "And to have somebody like that heading up the Justice Department, the chief law enforcement officer in the United States, is of great concern to me."
Jeff Sessions. Kevin Hagen/Getty Images
Sessions, the first senator to come out in support of Trump on the campaign trail, is known for his hardline stance on immigration, his protectionist platform on trade, and his opposition toward bipartisan proposals to cut mandatory minimum prison sentences.
"When Trump on election night came out and said he was going to be kind of a uniter for all people, this sends the opposite message in my view," Hebert said. "And he's got a demonstrated record of making racially insensitive remarks in the 1980s that he's never really apologized for or backed off of. He's claimed that he's not a racist, but anybody can make a claim, it's what your record shows that's important. He has a record of pretty clearly opposing civil rights enforcement and opposing the laws themselves."
Hebert said that with issues "of race and law enforcement" being at the forefront of the US justice discussion, the nomination of Sessions "sends a very bad message." And he said he does not believe Sessions' views have evolved since the 1980s is a "positive" way.
"I think he's done things since the 1980s in the area of race, ethnicity, and he's made statements about nominees that have shown that he remains racially insensitive," Hebert said, pointing to Sessions' support of controversial voter ID laws whose critics say prevents many in minority communities from being able to cast ballots.
While many Democrats have been up in arms about Trump's appointment of Breitbart News executive Steve Bannon as White House chief strategist, Hebert said the consequences of a Justice Department run by Sessions will be of much greater importance.
"Well, the two positions couldn't be more different," he said. "One is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. You make decisions about who's going to get prosecuted, what laws are going to be enforced, what the priorities are going to be for the thousands of lawyers who work there, and you reach literally every corner of America and the world, for that matter. This is a far more important position and one that has far greater and far-reaching consequences."
Jeff Sessions. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Jason Miller, a spokesman for Trump's transition, came to Sessions' defense in a conference call with reporters Friday. He said Sessions is "universally respected across party lines."
"When Sen. Sessions was US Attorney, he filed a number of desegregation lawsuits in Alabama and supported a 30-year extension of the Civil Rights Act, voted for [former Attorney General] Eric Holder, and spearheaded [the] effort to give a congressional gold medal to Rosa Parks."
Miller was confident Sessions had the support to be confirmed, adding that former Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania later said his vote against Sessions in the 1980s was a mistake.
Sessions, who is generally well-liked in the Senate, didn't receive the same sort of backlash as Bannon's appointment from Democrats in Congress.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut called Sessions a "respected colleague" who "expects the same exacting, serious scrutiny that any other Attorney General nominee would receive." Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said citizens "deserve" to know about Sessions' record "at the public" confirmation hearing.
Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, however, signaled a potential confirmation battle. He said that even though he and Sessions "work out in the gym ... the fact that he is a senator does not absolve him from answering tough questions in the confirmation process."
"Given some of his past statements and his staunch opposition to immigration reform, I am very concerned about what he would do with the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice and want to hear what he has to say,” Schumer continued in a statement.
The strongest statement against Sessions from congressional Democrats came from Rep. Luis Gutiérrez of Illinois.
"If you have nostalgia for the days when blacks kept quiet, gays were in the closet, immigrants were invisible and women stayed in the kitchen, Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is your man," he said, using Sessions' full legal name.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts also provided some strong words about Sessions, advising Trump to "reverse his decision."
"30 yrs ago, a GOP Senate rejected @ SenatorSessions ’ judicial nomination, affirming no compromise with racism; no negotiation with hate," she posted to Twitter. "Today, a new GOP Senate must decide whether self-interest & political cowardice will prevent them from once again doing what is right."
Elected Republicans presented universal praise for Trump's selection of Sessions as his nomination for attorney general.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas called it "great news," while Sen. John Cornyn of Texas called Sessions a "principled and good man" who will "restore honor" to the Justice Department.
And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky tried to build the case for why Sessions would be a fair leader for the department, saying he "strongly" supported Trump's decision.
McConnell noted that Sessions worked in a bipartisan fashion to reduce sentencing disparities for "certain drug offenses," in addition to combating sexual assault in prison
"Jeff is principled, forthright, and hardworking," he wrote. "He cares deeply about his country and the Department he will be nominated to lead. ... Jeff has always looked out for the safety, security and freedoms of his constituents and the nation."
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