As a defender of the First Amendment, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has terrible timing. But he has a legitimate point -- and it’s one that shouldn’t be lost on either the U.S.‘s college students or his boss, President Donald Trump.
Sessions went to Georgetown University on Tuesday to deliver a robust defense of free speech on college campuses. He would have had more credibility had he rebuked Trump for his incendiary attack on National Football League players who kneel during the national anthem as an expression of political protest. Doing so might well have cost Sessions his job, but as one of his predecessors understood, he serves the Constitution, not the president.