Originally Posted by Owain
Cite the relevant law on perjury then, and demonstrate how Session's testimony satisfies the necessary elements of the crime required to secure a conviction.

Sorry, but your mere opinion on the matter is not convincing.

As far as the other factors you bring up, these may be positions with which you disagree, but those are mere political differences. We sort out political differences in this country through elections, and if the candidate who won the election makes policy decisions with which you disagree, well there is always the next election.


By your logic, pretty anything is "mere political difference". Technically accurate, though by the same metric, the differences in governing philosophy between the traditional US, and China, are also "mere". Heck, China actually imprisons fewer people.

It is interesting that you articulate the position of elections justifying anything. As a matter of fact, Sessions will in all likelihood get away with all sorts of vileness in his capacity as AG. At least, unless a good chunk of the GOP grows something resembling a spine, and moral backbone. And elephants might fly. It still wont change the fact that he is a destructive social force that pulls the nation away from its founding principles, and makes the country an objectively worse place for everyone.

There is a reason that no one has taken to actually defending Sessions, instead just brushing off him off as "differences of opinion" - because he isn't defensible. There is also a reason the Bill of Rights wasn't written to say "And the govt, whenever its agents do so feel the whim, are free to both examine the belongings and papers of any person at any time. Additionally, should said govt agents so decide, the belongs and personal affects of citizens may also be confiscated and appropriated for whatever use said govt agents deem fit."

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)