Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-02-06-pt2-PgS844_t22

I am gravely concerned about how an Attorney General Sessions would advise President Trump on the lawfulness of a Muslim ban. He recently issued his Executive order, which a district court has put on hold and is now being challenged in the Ninth Circuit. I cosponsored legislation to rescind President Trump's discriminatory Executive order barring immigrants from Muslim-majority countries and suspending the U.S. refugee program. I am also concerned as to how Attorney General Sessions would advise the President on matters of immigration. Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was fired and her conduct was called shameful by President Trump, simply because she was upholding the Constitution, giving her advice. The President has criticized the ``so-called judge'' who temporarily stayed his travel ban with an ``outrageous'' decision, and said that the judge would be blamed if a terrorist attack occurred in the United States.
Keywords matched
immigration refugee immigrants

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
refugees
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
BENJAMIN CARDIN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MD
Gender
Date
2017-02-06
Speech ID
CREC-2017-02-06-pt2-PgS844_t22
Paragraph
#1
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