The rule of law is back

Writing for Front Page Magazine, Daniel Greenfield pens a defense of Jeff Sessions citing Obama's cynical parting message to Trump urging Trump to protect institutions and traditions like the rule of law, then going through examples of Obama breaking with his own advice and noting the actions taken to reverse them and repeating rhetorically, the rule of law is back.  Greenfield has a knack for lining up all his ducks in a long tidy row.

Obama always had some great political crusade, from identity politics to international intervention, which trumped the rule of law. If Congress wouldn’t pass amnesty for illegal aliens, he would. If it wouldn’t cover ObamaCare subsidies, he would divert the money anyway. If it wouldn’t agree to bomb Libya, he would do it on his own while lying to Congress and to the American people.

Guns were smuggled to drug cartels to undermine the Second Amendment.

Nakoula Nakoula was arrested for uploading his YouTube video The Innocence of Muslims.

Robert Finicum was killed protesting federal land use policies.

Race riots were organized by the Justice Department.

Police officers were lynched while hundreds of drug dealers were freed.

Islamic terrorists were released while soldiers were locked up in America and in Iran.

Obama put his union allies in the National Labor Relations Board by means of illegal and fake recess appointments that the Supreme Court found unconstitutional but who had their place for two years.

Obama's auto bailout was illegal.

Obama blackmailed big companies to make payouts to Obama allies

Due process vanished from college campuses.

Obama had Congress and Trump officials spied on to protect his Iran nuclear deal.

But all that is changing around now.

Gang violence is the leading source of gun violence but Obama went easy on gang violence and freed drug dealers then treated the resulting gun violence as pretext for gun control.

While Jeff Sessions is going after gangs and not targeting legal gun owners. Obama failed to enforce existing gun laws and prosecutions dropped sharply under Obama.

Obama's policy created the Ferguson Effect. Jeff Sessions put an end to the Holder-Lynch black nationalists and their sympathizers in the Justice Department. Sessions declared they are making it clear that they stand with their law enforcement partners 100 percent.

Sessions shut down the slush fund that Obama used to divert billions in settlement money from banks and corporations to groups like La Raza and the National Urban League.

Instead, Sessions reached settlements with conservative groups targeted by Obama's IRS.

Sessions rescinded Obama's illegal alien amnesty. Sessions called Obama's illegal alien amnesty "one of the most dramatic erosions of the Congressional appropriations power in our history."

The ObamaCare birth control mandate cases were settled. Sessions said, "no one should be forced to choose between living out his or her faith and complying with the law."  The new Justice Department is standing up for the freedom of bakers and nuns, of small businesses and churches.

Sessions warned that free speech on campuses is under attack and the Department of Justice will enforce federal law, defend free speech, and protect students' free expression."

The Clintons and Obama had sixteen years in which to do what they liked. And the damage to our institutions reflects that. It can’t and won’t be repaired overnight. Not with so many activists from the opposition party embedded deeply in the DOJ, the judiciary and other government institutions.

Well.

That's all very good.

But it hardly satisfies the readers at Front Page Magazine. They want blood. They need to see people imprisoned, and they name who they need to see behind bars. They need to see Sessions fight Trump's political opponents.  They need a straight up straightforward, frontally attacking political fight.

They want to see a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton specifically. They want a special prosecutor for Uranium One. Commenters believe that Democrats are playing Sessions for a fool. They want Sessions to resign. They don't see him earning his paycheck. Daniel Greenfeld did not convince Front Page Magazine readers that Sessions is doing a good job in restoring the rule of law. They do not see Sessions using the full power available to him to restore the rule of law. They do not like his recusals. They want someone who fights nasty the way they've seen Obama's administration fight for what Democrats want.

It's very odd to read such an excellent essay met with such vehement contrary response.

Much more at the link. Recommended. Just to have your mind blown.