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Margaret Sullivan: Jeff Sessions sounded like a free-speech champion at Georgetown — that's absurd

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I knew if I waited long enough, I’d find something to agree with Attorney General Jeff Sessions about.

It was never going to be about deporting young immigrants instead of putting them on a road to American citizenship.

It was definitely not about cracking down on journalists who report on leaked information.

It couldn’t be about his record on race relations, which helped capsize his effort to become a federal judge years ago.

But his remarks about free speech on campus, delivered Tuesday at Georgetown Law School? Yes, taken at face value, I can get behind them.