The "I want the AG to enforce the law" meme

Strange, I expected you to support the premise of this thread.

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Anyone supporting Sessions can never advocate for "states rights" again

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Sessions wrote the Controlled Substances Act in 1970?

Does the AG make the laws? Write your congressman, rather than us, as I certainly don’t give a frick about your opinion

Your reply misses my point.

I am directly challenging the assertion it's the AGs job to enforce all the laws. It is the AGs job to set focus.

By saying the AG is to enforce all the laws, it implies the previous DoJ was outside of their wheelhouse to make a policy to avoid weed prosecution on the first place. I don't at all agree. Sessions is within his ignorant right to go after weed and the previous DoJ is in their right to avoid it. That is the AGs job.

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That it is the AGs responsibility to enforce all laws on the books equally?

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Yes

The legislature should be less gutless. Stand up if you believe in it instead of sloughing it off to someone not elected.

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Congress makes law. The AG enforces law. The law states DACAs are illegal. Either the law needs to change or the AG must enforce existing law. Trump put DACA right back where it should have been -- in the lap of Congress. Now Trump has put marijuana legalization right back where it should have been -- in the lap of Congress.

The AG does NOT have leeway to ignore the law.

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It amazes me that so many people don't seem to understand this.

That's weak. The Congress makes the law, not the AG. If you want weed to be legal or states to say whether it is legal, pressure your Congressmen. We don't want the AG deciding which laws to enforce or not to enforce--that leads to inconsistency in enforcement and the lawlessness of the Obama administration. It allows the Justice Dept. to give Hillary a pass but to hammer Trump associates for lying about things that have nothing to do with Mueller's investigation. Congress, not Sessions, should decide what the law is. He just enforces it, whatever it is.

Prosecutorial discretion is ignoring the law which you already advocated for.

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That is exactly what prosecutors do when they decide not to prosecute.

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No.

But if they do, they should be fired.