Quote:The department argued in court on Thursday that key components of the Obama-era law are unconstitutional. The DOJ argued that ObamaCare’s protections against people with pre-existing conditions being denied coverage or charged more should be invalidated, maintaining that the individual mandate that people have insurance or face a tax penalty is now unconstitutional. Sessions' move marks a break in the DOJ normally federal laws when they are challenged in court.Sessions sends letter to Ryan explaining rationale for not defending ObamaCare | TheHill
So the DOJ is attacking its own laws, with potentially devastating consequences for millions of people..
And he's a hypocrite of course as well, arguing in 2011 that the DOJ should defend existing laws or if not, the head of the DOJ should resign:
Quote:Back in February 2011, President Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder announced that his DOJ would no longer defend the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act (commonly known as “DOMA,” it was a 1996 law that prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriages). Outraged, GOP leaders criticized the move as an abdication of the DOJ’s duty and some urged Holder’s resignation and budget cuts to the department. A House resolution condemning the decision garnered 123 sponsors and co-sponsors, including then-Reps. Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, and Mick Mulvaney. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, then a Republican presidential hopeful, even briefly floated the possibility of presidential impeachment.This 2011 quote from Jeff Sessions just became really awkward – ThinkProgress
The anti-LGBTQ Sessions, then a Republican senator from Alabama, was among the most vocal. At a March 2011 confirmation hearing for the Solicitor General, he said that Holder should have stood up to Obama and resigned, rather that stopping his DOMA defense. “[T]he Attorney General should have told the President, ‘I know you may have changed your mind, Mr. President, but this is a statutory law passed by the Congress of the United States, it’s been upheld Constitutionally and it has to be defended. We cannot fail to defend that statute. And then what happens? I think what happens is the President says, ‘okay, I wish we could….’ And I think he would have backed off. If not, then you have to resign.””