It's several islands, first of all, but more importantly, it's every bit as much of a USA state as, say, Sessions' home of Alabama.
Sessions on Thursday said he was "amazed" a judge "on an island in the Pacific" could block President Trump's controversial travel order.
Session's "island in the Pacific" comment has been met with outrage, led by Hawaii's attorney general and senators representing the 50th U.S. state.
In March, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson issued a nationwide temporary restraining order to Trump's travel ban, and then extended the order, prompting the president to file an appeal.
Ian Prior, a spokesperson for the Justice Department, deflected Session's comments in an email to the New York Times by refocusing on how a "single judge can block the president's lawful exercise of authority to keep the entire country safe".
Attorney General Jeff Sessions' dismissive statement about Hawaii was "really freakish", according to Sen. "Jeff Sessions' comments are ignorant & unsafe".
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Schatz chided Sessions more on Twitter by telling him the island where Watson made the ruling is named Oahu.
He said: "President Trump previously called a federal judge in California a so-called judge". Our Constitution created a separation of powers in the United States for a reason.
Hawaii's Attorney General Doug Chin criticized these remarks.
It's truly disturbing, albeit not surprising given Sessions' long and ugly history, that the Attorney General does not support the rule of law or understand that the judiciary is a co-equal branch of the federal government, that deserves his utmost respect. According to Sessions, the Hawaii judge had no right to stop the executive order because his state was not sovereign. "It is disappointing AG Sessions does not acknowledge that", Chin's statement read.
At age 7, she herself became a naturalized American citizen in 1959, the same year Hawaii became a state.
He's issued a perfectly reasonable executive order that delays six countries for 90 days from being brought - immigrants coming here because we can not vet them. "He's just frustrated. It's an emotional response, I think".
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