BATON ROUGE, LA – Louisiana Attorney
General Jeff Landry issued the following statement in support of today’s
decision by United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions to rescind the Cole
Memo:
“I applaud Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his decision to
promote the rule of law and rescind the Cole Memo. This issue affects banking,
interstate commerce, public safety, and many other areas that are best
addressed by Congress not by Executive fiat. Fortunately, the Trump
Administration has worked tirelessly to reverse the ill practices of the
previous administration. This issue should be settled by our lawmakers, not our
law enforcers. Choosing to not enforce duly enacted laws is a dangerous
precedent. Whether the law concerns the legality of marijuana or immigration,
non-enforcement by the Department mandated to execute the laws is bad policy.”
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