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Republicans Are Planning to Rush Through Jeff Sessions’s Confirmation Hearing via @thenation
Republicans Are Planning to Rush Through Jeff Sessions’s Confirmation Hearing
https://www.thenation.com/article/republicans-are-planning-to-rush-through-jeff-sessionss-confirmation-hearing/
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By Joan WalshTwitter
Today 11:31 am
Trump attorney general pick Jeff Sessions speaks to media at Trump Tower in New York on November 17, 2016. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster)
The Nation has learned that Senate Democrats will only get to call four witnesses to testify about the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions to Attorney General. ...........................
Two days after eight NAACP members, including the group’s president Cornell W. Brooks, were arrested occupying Sessions’s senate office in Mobile, Alabama, the battle lines are drawn for the first serious ideological confrontation of the Trump administration. ...................
In late November, Senate Democrats, led by outgoing Judiciary Committee ranking member Patrick Leahy, asked Republican committee chair Chuck Grassley to schedule four days of hearings and to include a larger number of witnesses called by Sessions opponents, given the nominee’s controversial views on voting rights, civil rights, women’s rights and immigration. .............................
Current ranking member Dianne Feinstein also asked Grassley to push the Sessions hearing back beyond January 10, because the Alabama senator submitted remarkably incomplete answers to the Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire—you can read what’s missing here—but Grassley has refused.
Now multiple sources close to the Senate discussions, as well as advocacy group leaders, speaking on the condition of anonymity since negotiations with Grassley and his staff are nominally ongoing, say that Grassley has also refused to expand the number of witnesses, restricting Democrats to calling only four people over two days who can testify to Sessions’s long, controversial record on issues of civil rights. .........................
.................... In addition to all of those issues, he will be in charge of keeping on top of Trump’s myriad conflicts of interests and other legal challenges. Sessions is close to the president-elect and was one of his first supporters among elected officials.
Leahy, who is still on the Senate Judiciary Committee, recently wrote Grassley that Sessions’s incomplete answers are “increasingly troubling” given that “as a former ranking member of this Committee, Senator Sessions is well aware of the seriousness with which this Committee takes the confirmation process.” In fact, in 2010 Sessions suggested that Obama judicial nominee Goodwin Liu might be committing a felony because of his allegedly incomplete committee disclosures.
Also troubling to Democrats is Sessions’s refusal, so far, to recuse himself from voting on his own nomination. [/b......................................
Senate Democrats have lots of backup. This week 1,226 law professors wrote Grassley to oppose Sessions’s nomination. “Nothing in Senator Sessions’ public life since 1986 has convinced us that he is a different man than the 39-year-old attorney who was deemed too racially insensitive to be a federal district court judge,” the letter said. While the Trump transition team has been hyping Sessions’s involvement in desegregation lawsuits while a U.S. attorney, three DOJ lawyers wrote a Washington Post op-ed explaining that he played “no significant role” in the cases that have been described. “Sessions has done many things throughout his 40-year career. Protecting civil rights is not one of them.” .............
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