function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReadyVidible); Twitter is not being very pacific about Attorney General Jeff Sessions insulting dismissal of Americas 50th state. The nations top lawman expressed astonishment that a Hawaiian judge on an island in the Pacific could dare hold up President Donald Trumps travel ban.Sessions was referring to a March 15 order by U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson that blockedparts of Trumps second travel ban.I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power, Sessions said earlier this week.That island in the Pacific Sessions so scorned has been a state since 1959, Twitter was quick to point out, and was the site of the surprise Japanese bomber attack that launched the U.S. into World War II.One wag wondered if Sessions apparent confusion that Hawaii is actually part of America could perhaps explain birthers belief that President Barack Obama wasnt actually born in the U.S. because he was born on that very same island in the Pacific. Hawaiis Democratic senators blasted the comment, with Sen. Mazie Hirono underscoring the racism of Sessionsdog whistle politics.The ACLU of Hawaii boasted in a tweet that civil rights is in our DNA, and a number of tweets noted that it was Sessions state of Alabama that once fought to leave the U.S.One writer hoped Sessions would take a three-hour tour, when he could presumably get lost on Gilligans Island.Somebody PLEASE remind ignorant racist Jeff BEAUREGARD Sessions where the HELL Pearl Harbor took place. #IslandInThePacific pic.twitter.com/ul65cF08nm BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) April 20, 2017 Jefferson Beauregard Sessions IIII'm in my 50'sHawaii has been a stateLONGER than I've been on the planet #IslandInThePacific #Clueless pic.twitter.com/LtyV5h8Ryc BROKEN PROMISELAND (@VoteAngryNow) April 20, 2017 Wait, so did the birthers just not realize Hawaii was a state' #islandinthepacific anna dyes her hair (@hapasareasian) April 20, 2017 Hey Jeff Sessions, We're amazed that a racist from Alabama can become Attorney General. So guess we're even.#IslandinthePacific https://t.co/D8pPCTGuCX Dan Hamamura (@DanHamamura) April 20, 2017 We should let @jeffsessions know that New Mexico is a state too. Otherwise the wall might get built in the wrong place. #islandinthepacific https://t.co/PwBp9Y9nPM Marty (@MeInCa) April 20, 2017 #IslandInThePacific was the site of the most horrific attack on the U.S. until 9/11. An American flag flew. Not a Confederate one! Hick! Steve G (@steveg1425) April 20, 2017 Can we send Jeff Sessions on a 3 hour tour of an #IslandInThePacific' pic.twitter.com/hbP9dFkIAJ Mimi LeRoch (@MimiLeroch) April 20, 2017 I'll note for Jeff Sessions' benefit that the #IslandInThePacific, unlike his home state of Alabama, never tried to LEAVE the United States. Chad (@RevDJEsq) April 20, 2017 @ACLU This #islandinthepacific 1st to legalize #abortion, first to ratify #ERA, authored #TitleIX...#civilrights in our DNA & not stopping! ACLU of Hawaii (@acluhawaii) April 20, 2017 Reminder: 75 years + 2 days ago the US avenged Japan's attack on that #IslandInThePacific. https://t.co/5CX7GomM1D pic.twitter.com/LexiNT7pca Joel A. L. Thomas (@AnAmericanRiver) April 20, 2017 This is me every day with this administration #IslandInThePacific pic.twitter.com/5CTjcCB1Eq Shanae Dale (@shada524) April 20, 2017 And for one final love tweet to the state:Gorgeous pic of that #IslandInThePacific. Ha'iku, Hawaii pic.twitter.com/JAnKE0GBai Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) April 20, 2017 type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related Coverage + articlesList=58f8eb20e4b018a9ce591097 -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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