<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">This might be a good laugh!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">By Dana MiIbank</div><div class=""> Washington Post</div><div class=""> 9/7/17</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/apparently-its-illegal-to-laugh-at-jeff-sessions/2017/09/05/86b6e48a-9278-11e7-aace-04b862b2b3f3_story.html" class="">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/apparently-its-illegal-to-laugh-at-jeff-sessions/2017/09/05/86b6e48a-9278-11e7-aace-04b862b2b3f3_story.html</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">I’d like to tell you, but I can’t. You see, it’s illegal to laugh at the attorney general, the man who on Tuesday morning <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/09/05/trump-administration-announces-end-of-immigration-protection-program-for-dreamers/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_daca-1110a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d2f5c1db3aa9" shape="rect" title="www.washingtonpost.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(25, 85, 165); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); zoom: 1; font-size: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; line-height: 1.8em;" class="">announced</a> that the 800,000 “dreamers” — immigrants brought here illegally as children — could soon be deported. If you were to find my Sessions jest funny, I would be an accessory to mirth.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px auto 18px; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">This is no joke, because liberal activist Desiree Fairooz is now being put on trial a second time by the Justice Department — Jeff Sessions’s Justice Department — because she laughed at Sessions during his confirmation hearing. Specifically, she laughed at a line about Sessions “<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/01/politics/doj-woman-laughed-jeff-sessions-confirmation-hearing/index.html" shape="rect" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(25, 85, 165); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); zoom: 1; font-size: inherit; margin-bottom: 18px; line-height: 1.8em;" class="">treating all Americans equally under the law</a>” (which is, objectively, kind of funny).</p><div class="pb-f-async-true moat-trackable pb-feature pb-f-page-newsletter-inLine injected-by-front-end pb-layout-item pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false" moat-id="page/newsletter-inLine|opinions" data-chain-name="no-name" data-feature-name="no-name" data-feature-id="page/newsletter-inLine" data-pb-fingerprint="0fDPb0gHHp9" id="f0Y8hWTQvk8uuq" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 18px; animation: fadein 2s; position: relative; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; padding: 0px !important;"><div class="nl-top-hairline border-bottom-" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="pb-subscribe-promo pb-font-smoothing pb-subscribe-newsletter pb-subscribe showSubscription" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; width: 960px; padding: 5px 0px; background-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-radius: 4px; margin: 22px 0px; text-shadow: none;"><div class="pb-subscribe-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></div></div></body></html>