{"id":2785,"date":"2017-05-03T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2018-08-20T14:01:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:01:45","slug":"jeff-sessions-cannot-take-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/jeff-sessions-cannot-take-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Sessions can’t take a joke when that joke is Jeff Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Sessions, the man who became U.S. Attorney General after lying to Congress<\/a>, has been a controversial figure in the last 100+ days. As the chief law enforcement officer in the United States, the former U.S. senator from Alabama is possibly the most influential pick of President Trump\u2019s Cabinet. Unfortunately, he is also the head of the Department of Justice, which is a lot of suing power if you\u2019re a petty asshole.<\/p>\n

According to HuffPost reporter Ryan Reilly, the DOJ prosecuted and today convicted activist Desiree Fairooz for laughing<\/a> during Sessions\u2019 confirmation hearing in January. The 61-year-old giggled audibly as Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) said Sessions\u2019 history of \u201ctreating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented,\u201d which, to be fair, is<\/em> pretty hilarious. The lie itself is so broad it could have almost escaped notice had Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) not been silenced<\/a> on the Senate floor for attempting to read Coretta Scott King\u2019s 1986 letter outing Sessions as a racist, launching 10,000 Etsy shops<\/a> in the process.<\/p>\n

Despite Fairooz claiming the laugh was involuntary and it not noticeably interfering with Shelby\u2019s speech, she was prosecuted by the DOJ and found guilty this afternoon on two counts, “one for engaging in ‘disorderly or disruptive conduct’ with the intent to disrupt congressional proceedings,” writes Reilly, “and a separate count for parading, demonstrating or picketing.\u201d<\/p>\n

This outcome, and the charges themselves, raise disturbing questions about free speech in the Trump Era. In a country that functions on every level with the intrinsic right to criticize its elected officials \u2014 you know, a democracy \u2014 what impact could an administration this petty have on its chosen adversaries? And what about when those adversaries are women, whose criticism seems to hit a particular nerve<\/a>? This climate brings to mind the old Margaret Atwoodism: \u201cMen are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.\u201d Sessions is capable of addressing the imaginary concern, but can we trust him to take on the real one<\/a>? Spoiler alert: no<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Sessions, the man who became U.S. Attorney General after lying to Congress, has been a controversial figure in the last 100+ days. 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