Al Franken Tears Into Sessions Over Civil Rights Claims

[Miles Archer]

Al Franken Tears Into Sessions Over Civil Rights Claims



http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/al-franken-jeff-sessions-civil-rights

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) tore into his colleague Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) during Sessions' confirmation hearing on Tuesday to be the next attorney general, suggesting that Sessions has not honestly portrayed his record on civil rights to the public.

Republican senators and the Trump transition team made a concerted effort at the hearing to portray Sessions as an egalitarian whose reputation as a racist is unearned. But Franken's pointed questions cast doubt on that narrative.

Franken began by bringing up an interview Sessions gave in 2009, when he became the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sessions, Franken quoted, said at the time, "We're not going to misrepresent any nominee's record and we're not going to lie about it." Franken then used the next 10 minutes of questioning to suggest that Sessions was actively misrepresenting his own record.

First, Sessions brought up another quote from that same interview in which Sessions claimed to have filed "20 or 30 civil rights cases to desegregate schools" other organizations as a US attorney in Alabama. But in November, Franken continued, Sessions' office said he had filed "a number" of desegregation cases. Which was it, Franken wanted to know. Sessions acknowledged that the record doesn't show that there were "20 or 30" and that "the number would be less than that."

[pangaia]

1. Yeah, I saw this. BRAVO AL..

Nothing funny about him at all. !!!

Sessions is a lying, racist inhuman shit.

[Cha]

2. Thank you, Senator Franken