Subject: Nightly, 4.22
From: "Kasnetz, Joel" <[email-masked]>
To: "Bauer, Nick" <[email-masked]>, "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>, "Graham, Caroline" <[email-masked]>, Veepstakes <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:11:24 -0700

*         Started top hits doc for Jeff Sessions

o   Set up an outline

o   Pulled relevant bullets from the research book

*         Completed Sessions dump on Jeff Sessions and Nazis

*         Completed Sessions dump on stem cell research

*         Lost about 10 bullets in a tragic Word document saving accident

Fun stuff for today:
His argument re: suspending habeas corpus and only using military tribunals for terrorism detainees is essentially: It's OK when we do it. And that's pretty ridiculous.
The Anniston Star Editorial: Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby Voted To Allow The George W. Bush Administration to continue suspending habeas corpus for military detainees. "On Wednesday, the Senate failed by three votes to give military detainees the right to take their case to court...Legal proceedings such as trials are designed to get to the bottom of these questions. However, enough senators, including Alabama's Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby, apparently believe it is defensible to step on the Constitution and individual rights." [Editorial, The Anniston Star, 9/20/07]

*         The Anniston Star Editorial: "Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby, apparently believe it is defensible to step on the Constitution and individual rights." "On Wednesday, the Senate failed by three votes to give military detainees the right to take their case to court...Legal proceedings such as trials are designed to get to the bottom of these questions. However, enough senators, including Alabama's Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby, apparently believe it is defensible to step on the Constitution and individual rights." [Editorial, The Anniston Star, 9/20/07]

*         The Anniston Star Editorial: "In Defending His Vote, Sessions Tried To Draw A Distinction Between Our Mature Society And Others." "On Wednesday, the Senate failed by three votes to give military detainees the right to take their case to court... In defending his vote, Sessions tried to draw a distinction between our mature society and others. 'These kinds of dictators and communists and Nazis, they go out and grab people and put them in jail and never charge them, never announce where they are even,' Sessions said. 'So, that's not what we want to do here.'" [Editorial, The Anniston Star, 9/20/07]

*         Jeff Sessions On Why The United States Can Hold Detainees With Habeas Corpus: "These Kinds Of Dictators And Communists And Nazis, They Go Out And Grab People And Put Them In Jail And Never Charge Them, Never Announce Where They Are Even. So, That's Not What We Want To Do Here." SESSIONS: "These kind of dictators and communists and Nazis, they go out and grab people and put them in jail and never charge them, never announce where they are even. So that's not what we want to do here. Never in the history, however, of the writ's existence has an English or American court granted habeas to enemy combatants held during a time of war." [Morning Edition, NPR, 9/19/07]

*         Jeff Sessions On Why The United States Can Hold Detainees With Habeas Corpus: "Never In The History, However, Of The Writ's Existence Has An English Or American Court Granted Habeas To Enemy Combatants Held During A Time Of War." SESSIONS: "These kind of dictators and communists and Nazis, they go out and grab people and put them in jail and never charge them, never announce where they are even. So that's not what we want to do here. Never in the history, however, of the writ's existence has an English or American court granted habeas to enemy combatants held during a time of war." [Morning Edition, NPR, 9/19/07]

Jeff Sessions Said That Enemy Combatants Do Not Deserve Full Due Process And Protections Offered By Civilian Courts. "So I want to be sure, when you study this language and you -- y'all are going to have to take the lead on it and think all this through.  But I'd like to say to you we need you to help us, because I have great confidence in the lawyer skills in the members of this committee and their commitment to doing the right thing, but we don't know all these details.  We haven't studied that 170-page opinion, I hate to tell you.  Some of them like to make us think we've all read it, but we haven't. And so I guess I'm calling on you to do that.  And let's be sure that these extraordinary protections that we provide to American soldiers and American civilians, because we live in such a safe nation that we can take these chances and give these extra rights, that we don't give them to people who have no respect for our law and are committed to killing innocent men and women and children." [Hearing, Senate Armed Services Committee, 8/2/06]