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Stephen Gary ?@kindcutesteve 7m7 minutes ago#NAACP occupies Jeff Sessions' Mobile office in protest of AG nomination (gr8)
The president of the NAACP and the head of the group's Mobile branch are occupying the Alabama senator's Mobile office until he withdraws from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general or the group gets arrested.
The protest at Sessions' Mobile Senate office was among several demonstrations held statewide against Sessions' nomination.
Sessions was the U.S. attorney in Mobile in the mid-1980s when then-President Ronald Reagan nominated him for a federal judgeship. But the nomination failed amid allegations that Sessions made racist remarks toward a colleague, said the Ku Klux Klan was "O.K." until he learned that members smoked marijuana and that he called the NAACP and liberal organizations "un-American" and "communist-inspired."
"As a matter of conscience, the NAACP has chosen not to remain silent on this critical matter," Birmingham NAACP head Hezekiah Johnson said outside Sessions' Senate office in Birmingham. "Our main concern is centered around the reality of voter suppression. We have found no evidence of his ability, past or present, to be impartial and unbiased as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America, especially in the areas of civil rights, voting rights and equal protection under the law."
read: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/01/alabama_naacp_rebukes_jeff_ses.html
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Resist! Sessions Edition (Original Post)
bigtree
Jan 2017
OP
pkdu
(3,977 posts)1. Off to the greatest page with you! nt
barbtries
(28,799 posts)2. k & r
i need to start making phone calls. using postage stamps instead of email.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,033 posts)3. K&R