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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSessions called NAACP, SCLC, and other civil rights groups un-American and communist-inspired
HuffPost Politics ?@HuffPostPol 13h13 hours agoJeff Sessions was deemed too racist to be a judge. He might become Trump's attorney general. http://huff.to/2fB5bG7
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..his record as United States attorney in Alabama in the 1980s is very likely to become an issue for Democrats and civil rights groups expected to give it close scrutiny.
While serving as a United States prosecutor in Alabama, Mr. Sessions was nominated in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan for a federal judgeship. But his nomination was rejected by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee because of racially charged comments and actions. At that time, he was one of two judicial nominees whose selections were halted by the panel in nearly 50 years.
In testimony before the committee, former colleagues said that Mr. Sessions had referred to the N.A.A.C.P., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and other civil rights groups as un-American and Communist-inspired. An African-American federal prosecutor then, Thomas H. Figures, said Mr. Sessions had referred to him as boy and testified that Mr. Sessions said the Ku Klux Klan was fine until I found out they smoked pot.
read: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-attorney-general.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/799651039733485568
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Sessions called NAACP, SCLC, and other civil rights groups un-American and communist-inspired (Original Post)
bigtree
Nov 2016
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I guaran-damn-tee you this is where Bernie draws the line!! This will not stand!!!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2016
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InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)1. I guaran-damn-tee you this is where Bernie draws the line!! This will not stand!!!
Last edited Sun Nov 20, 2016, 12:46 PM - Edit history (1)
Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)2. Yep. He damn sure did and was denying it still a few years ago.