DONALD TRUMP'S nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama as attorney-general—making the hardest of nativist hardliners the country’s top law officer and head of the Department of Justice—is a timely reminder that words spoken on the campaign trail have meaning, that politics is not show business, and that America’s government takes decisions that make or break lives, shape economies and set norms across the globe. In the immediate aftermath of Mr Trump’s election, some boosters suggested that the president-elect is not really an ideologue, might bring moderates into his administration and is perhaps barely interested in the business of governing at all—for all the world as if P.T. Barnum were headed for the White House. The nomination of Mr Sessions suggests that is wishful thinking.
The 69-year-old senator from Alabama, one of Mr Trump’s earliest supporters and his closest adviser from the world of professional politics, will have sweeping powers over immigration enforcement. If confirmed by the Senate, he will immediately hold in his hands the fate of such groups as the 728,000 migrants granted the right to stay and work in America by Barack Obama under the...Continue reading
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