Jeff Sessions is all but Trumps attorney general.

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this is a guy who called a white civil rights lawyer a "disgrace to his race", and is pretty much exactly who the white supremacists wanted for the job.
 
It is laughable that people are more worried about offending a white person by calling them a racist for voting for a racist then they about things like this.
This shit is terrifying if you're a PoC, I also doubt he has any love for LGBT.
 
Jeff Sessions wasn't allowed to be a federal judge because he was deemed too racist. In 1986. That's how racist Sessions is.

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At Sessions' confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, four Department of Justice lawyers who had worked with Sessions testified that he had made several racist statements. One of those lawyers, J. Gerald Hebert, testified that Sessions had referred to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as "un-American" and "Communist-inspired" because they "forced civil rights down the throats of people."[13]
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always with the forced oral sex metaphor, these guys.
 
LGBT should stay woke too:

"Sessions has been hostile to gay rights, voting for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in 2006 and against the 2010 repeal of "don’t ask, don’t tell," the policy that banned gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.

David Stacy, the government affairs director for Human Rights Campaign, told Metro Weekly that the prospect of Sessions as attorney general is "absolutely terrifying.""

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...ck-senator-jeff-sessions-for-attorney-general
 
Like I said before I just hope someone in the Senate has the guts to very loudly proclaim who this guy is during the confirmation heaaring so everyone is clear on who they are getting. They won't though.
 
jason10mm said:
Calling the NAACP "un-american" is racist? Come on, they are really reaching. It is pretty clear he won't be a personal champion of PoC but that doesn't mean he will pursue a racist agenda.

EDIT: I read this article (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...ns-racist-remarks_us_582cd73ae4b099512f80c0c2) which has way more specific testimony. So yeah, I'm changing my mind, this guy shouldn't be AG (or in any public office).
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Really? Did you really say that?! Really?! Just don't say anything else, just don't.
 
Fragamemnon said:
this is a guy who called a white civil rights lawyer a "disgrace to his race", and is pretty much exactly who the white supremacists wanted for the job.
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Source?

Also, the GOP is string a hornets nest if they think they will be allowed to freely attack minority and LGBTQ civil rights as well as betray their state rights mantra with weed.
 
Ugh. Jeff Sessions is dumb. Not in a Republican-positions-are-grounded-in-ignorance way but a Not-sure-how-this-guy-got-through-high-school way.
 
Racist police all around america are going to be way less reserved about their racism now that Sessions is in charge of investigating and punishing discriminatory police departments.
 
thepotatoman said:
Racist police all around america are going to be way less reserved about their racism now that Sessions is in charge of investigating and punishing discriminatory police departments.
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That is what the old white people who gave Trump power wanted. They took Black Lives Matter as an insult, and wanted to punish black people for daring to complain about police mistreatment.
 
#BlueLivesMatter to get a massive jolt in the arm. Sessions is the type to start hate crimes investigations against people protesting police brutality.
 
I could honestly see Jeff Sessions failing a confirmation hearing. Three GOP Senators voted against him as a judge in 1986, the same number that would be required to defeat him now. Most likely they all vote him through because it would be too awkward to keep working with him after killing his nomination, but still like 25% chance some coalition of the decent comes together to shoot him down.
 
Iksenpets said:
I could honestly see Jeff Sessions failing a confirmation hearing. Three GOP Senators voted against him as a judge in 1986, the same number that would be required to defeat him now. Most likely they all vote him through because it would be too awkward to keep working with him after killing his nomination, but still like 25% chance some coalition of the decent comes together to shoot him down.
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That NYT (or maybe it was huffpo?) article mentions that he has a lot more allies in senate now than he did 30 years ago. If Lindsey Graham isn't voting against him, then no Republicans are.
 
Iksenpets said:
I could honestly see Jeff Sessions failing a confirmation hearing. Three GOP Senators voted against him as a judge in 1986, the same number that would be required to defeat him now. Most likely they all vote him through because it would be too awkward to keep working with him after killing his nomination, but still like 25% chance some coalition of the decent comes together to shoot him down.
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Why? Republicans have a majority in the Senate and will want to stay on Trump's good side in order to pass through their own horrorshow policies.

Anyone Trump nominates will probably pass through. This cabinet will be completely fucked for at least the next four years.
 
SG-17 said:
The Senate does have to confirm all of these appointments, right?
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Yes, but they are all going to get 100% of the republican vote so it doesn't matter.
 
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