Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Thursday, August 17, 2017.
Attorney General Sessions slams Emanuel, Chicago’s sanctuary city policy in speech
Attorney General Jeff Sessions attacked Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago’s sanctuary city policy again Wednesday. The Department of Justice previewed the speech in a statement, saying that Sessions would “take on Chicago political leadership.” “Respect for the rule of law has broken down. In Chicago, their so-called ‘sanctuary’ policies are just one sad example,” Sessions said, according to a DOJ excerpt. “That makes a sanctuary city a trafficker, smuggler, or predator’s best friend.” Sessions praised Miami-Dade County for ending its sanctuary city policy, claiming that shooting deaths have dropped as a result. Emanuel quickly responded to the Sessions’s planned remarks, saying that Chicago “will not cave to the Trump administration’s pressure because they are wrong morally, wrong factually and wrong legally.” [Sun-Times]
