In his speech announcing the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III cited “the rule of law” in his explanation as to why Donald Trump and his administration sided with white supremacists to end a program that actually was lawful.
But as the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent and others noted, Donald Trump seems to have forgotten all about that “rule of law” stuff when it came to his questionable pardon of the lawless, criminal Joe Arpaio, as well as his other outrageous actions as president:
Garrett Epps, a Supreme Court correspondent for The Atlantic:
Donald’s not alone here in promoting lawlessness so long as it’s personally and politically beneficial: