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The inhumane lawlessness of the Trump administration goes right back to its beginnings, including the conduct of Jeff Sessions, Trump’s first AG. 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trumps-zero-tolerance-border-policy-was-pushed-aggressively-by-jeff-sessions-despite-warnings-justice-department-review-finds/2021/01/14/b283093a-567a-11eb-89bc-7f51ceb6bd57_story.html
In September 2017, I joined Georgetown Law colleagues and students in protesting then AG Sessions’ appearance at the law center. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/09/26/georgetown-law-students-plan-to-protest-jeff-sessionss-speech/ 2/
Here’s some of what I had to say about Sessions speaking at Georgetown Law Center in 2017. 3/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/09/26/georgetown-law-students-plan-to-protest-jeff-sessionss-speech/
That Jeff Sessions, an unabashed white supremacist, was appointed by Trump confirmed Trump’s utter disregard for equal justice under law. 4/
As you may recall, it was during Sessions’ confirmation hearing that white supremacist Mitch McConnell silenced Senator Warren as she attempted to read a letter Coretta Scott King wrote objecting to Reagan’s effort to put Sessions on the federal bench. 5/
McConnell was on board with Trump’s lawlessness from the get go. After Trump’s misogynist stalking of Clinton on the debate stage, it was especially appalling to see McConnell rhetorically strong arm Warren during Senate debate. 6/
Indeed, in February 2017, on the night McConnell stopped Warren from reading Scott King’s letter, I went directly to the Capitol to read the letter outside. I was joined by some Georgetown Law students and others who had seen me tweet my plans. 7/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/02/08/heres-what-inspired-a-georgetown-law-professor-to-read-coretta-scott-kings-letter-outside-capitol-hill/
From Trump’s 2/2017 nomination of Sessions for AG and McConnell’s support for it, a straight line runs to the seditious insurrection Trump instigated at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Today, Trump is not on trial in Senate bc McConnell does not want to have that trial. 8/
And today, because of McConnell’s refusal to promptly recognize Biden’s victory and because of the Trump-fanned violence at the Capitol, DC has been militarized. I cannot go to the Capitol to peacefully protest the Senate remaining out of session. 9/
Let nobody claim that what Trump has done at the end of his term is somehow different in kind from what he did at the beginning. 10/
