Sen. Cory Gardner threatened to block all DOJ appointments until AG Sessions rescinds his recent directive on marijuana enforcement, saying “Today Jeff Sessions went back on his word.” Meh.
Hot Air: "It’s a punt, essentially. Sessions is telling U.S. Attorneys that they’re no longer being instructed to deprioritize the enforcement of marijuana laws in states where it’s legal, but as to how vigorously those laws *should* be enforced — well, that’s up to them. They should use their own judgment. If the local U.S. Attorneys in Colorado decide they want to continue to look the other way at weed, it’s their call. Status quo.".......
In the first place, a senator should not have a one-man veto on appointments. That's not in the Constitution.
Secondly, it should not be a matter of one person's word to another person. We had enough One Person-law in the last administration to last forever. They would ignore laws that they didn't like and magically invent laws they did like out of thin air. Or have idiot judges do it for them. I don't want some judge to declare that the Right to Get Hepped-Up on the Heezy is already in the Constitution, under the "Sweet Mystery of Life"-clause.
I'm no fan of legal weed. But I'm even less a fan of One-Man Decrees, Imperial diktats, Judicial Putsches, pronouncements by faceless bureaucracies, summary law-fare judgments and all the other methods devised to avoid the Consent of the Governed.
Whatever the law is that Sessions is following, it was passed by Cory Gardner's own Senate. If he doesn't like it, write a new one. That is your job, Senator. Write the law. Have candidates run on it. Let voters vote for or against them. Vote it up or down and live with it. One additional benefit is the social cohesion when both sides feel the process was fair.
It's called "representative democracy". We should really try it sometime. Democracy--not dope.
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