Faiza Patel

He once claimed a new ‘special need’ to stop terror could give the government carte blanche to spy on Americans. He cited no legal authority, just the 9/11 Commission Report.

The policy is based on prejudice, not proof. It signals to Muslims that they’re not welcome, and it’s working.

Unlike on the campaign trail, his own words, and plainly stated intent, now keep coming back to haunt him.

As a senator, Jeff Sessions had a history of falsely inflating the count of foreign nationals supposedly involved in terrorism. Now, he wants to do much more of that as attorney general.

Having made plain his intent, substituting in nominally neutral language doesn’t make this do-over much better or much more likely to withstand judges’ scrutiny.