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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 10:01 PM Sep 2017

Jeff Sessions Decries Fragile Egos At Colleges As DOJ Moves To Re-Try Woman Who Laughed At Him

The lack of shame is just amazing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions_us_59c95cdae4b01cc57ff4ad5e

WASHINGTON ― Free speech on college campuses is “under attack” as universities transform into shelters “for fragile egos,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who leads a Justice Department prosecuting a woman for laughing at him during a congressional hearing, said in a Tuesday speech.

“The American university was once the center of academic freedom ― a place of robust debate, a forum for the competition of ideas,” Sessions told an invite-only audience at Georgetown University’s law school. “But it is transforming into an echo chamber of political correctness and homogenous thought, a shelter for fragile egos.”

Sessions delivered his speech as the Justice Department prepares to retry a woman who laughed at him during his Senate confirmation hearing in January. The department’s continued prosecution of Desiree Fairooz was mentioned in an open letter signed by several members of the Georgetown law school faculty that said Sessions was a poor spokesman for the values of free speech.

Some students and law school faculty members demonstrated against Sessions and Trump administration’s policies on Tuesday morning, standing on the steps of the building where the attorney general would speak at an event they weren’t allowed to attend.
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Jeff Sessions Decries Fragile Egos At Colleges As DOJ Moves To Re-Try Woman Who Laughed At Him (Original Post) TomCADem Sep 2017 OP
Racist piece of shit. I was disgusted when cnn reported on his speech without JI7 Sep 2017 #1
Fragile ego? Cartoonist Sep 2017 #2
Sessions has dug out from numerous Trump dumps, but being NCjack Sep 2017 #4
Boy that's chutpah for you The Genealogist Sep 2017 #3
Sessions is a racist idiot Gothmog Sep 2017 #5

JI7

(89,248 posts)
1. Racist piece of shit. I was disgusted when cnn reported on his speech without
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 10:04 PM
Sep 2017

Any mention of them going after the woman for laughing at him.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
4. Sessions has dug out from numerous Trump dumps, but being
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 10:37 PM
Sep 2017

laughed at by a powerless woman is intolerable for him.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
3. Boy that's chutpah for you
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 10:12 PM
Sep 2017

Jerkoff with a fragile ego openly exercising free speech on a college campus, on the topic of free speech being squelched on campuses, and simultaneously suing someone because he has a fragile ego.

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