Add Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) to the long list of Republican lawmakers who don’t seem to think women are quite fully human. Sessions managed to turn comments about no-fault divorce and family courts into a lamentation about how poor unfortunate men get “railroaded” into paying child support and … killing their wives?
“Dallas County, a few years ago, went through a number of terrible shootings. And I gathered together, they were at the time Republican district judges, and I said ‘guys, men, women, we’ve now had I think four or five shootings.’ One of them was from a big-time guy in Highland Park, who went and killed his wife, just gunned her down. And that was because the judge was unfair, and the woman was unfair. And she demanded something, and he was out. And it was frustration,” Sessions said during a local GOP event earlier this summer. “So now we go through the court system. And unfortunately lives have to be lost and there has to be tragedy — there now is a better system.”
The judge was unfair and the woman was unfair, huh? I’m gonna go ahead and guess that a man whose response to unhappiness with family court proceedings was maybe not physically harming his wife for the first time when he “gunned her down.”
Sessions’s office says he does not condone murder and has supported domestic violence shelters (except for that one time he voted against the Violence Against Women Act because it got tough on men who rape Native American women). No explanation of the sympathy he all too obviously feels for the poor “railroaded” murderer. But, hey, no need, guys! Sessions is a member of the party of “legitimate” rape and “grab ‘em by the pussy.” We get it.