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Grand Wizard Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for AG

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Sal

Sal

The American Horror Show just got scarier ....

Sessions’ nomination will likely be met with opposition in the Senate. While serving as a U.S. attorney in Alabama, Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986, but he was never confirmed due to past racist comments. He withdrew his name from consideration and went on to be the Alabama attorney general and later a senator.

During the 1986 hearings to consider Sessions, J. Gerald Hebert, a Justice Department prosecutor, testified about how Sessions talked about a lawyer representing a black client. Herbert said that he once told Sessions that a judge had called a white lawyer “a disgrace to his race” for representing black clients. In response, Sessions said, “maybe he is,” Herbert said. Herbert also told Congress at the time that Sessions had called the NAACP “un-American” because the group was “trying to force civil rights down the throats of people.”

An African-American prosecutor testified to Congress that Sessions had called him “boy” and once joked that he felt the Ku Klux Klan “was O.K. until I found out they smoked pot.” Sessions denied called the prosecutor “boy” but not the other comments.

Though Sessions is likely to meet opposition from Democratic senators, it’s not clear how Republicans will approach his nomination now that he is one of their colleagues.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-sessions-attorney-general

Are we still in the "let's give him a chance" phase of the transition??

Guest


Guest

We lived in North Alabama for 14 years. Never, ever liked Sessions or Shelby...for that matter most anyone in government in the state. Good ol' boys to the nth degree.

Not a good choice for America. At all.

Telstar

Telstar

Sal wrote:The American Horror Show just got scarier ....

Sessions’ nomination will likely be met with opposition in the Senate. While serving as a U.S. attorney in Alabama, Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986, but he was never confirmed due to past racist comments. He withdrew his name from consideration and went on to be the Alabama attorney general and later a senator.

During the 1986 hearings to consider Sessions, J. Gerald Hebert, a Justice Department prosecutor, testified about how Sessions talked about a lawyer representing a black client. Herbert said that he once told Sessions that a judge had called a white lawyer “a disgrace to his race” for representing black clients. In response, Sessions said, “maybe he is,” Herbert said. Herbert also told Congress at the time that Sessions had called the NAACP “un-American” because the group was “trying to force civil rights down the throats of people.”

An African-American prosecutor testified to Congress that Sessions had called him “boy” and once joked that he felt the Ku Klux Klan “was O.K. until I found out they smoked pot.” Sessions denied called the prosecutor “boy” but not the other comments.

Though Sessions is likely to meet opposition from Democratic senators, it’s not clear how Republicans will approach his nomination now that he is one of their colleagues.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-sessions-attorney-general

Are we still in the "let's give him a chance" phase of the transition??



Vikingwoman



Everybody here in lower Alabama knows Sessions is a racist.

Sal

Sal

Trump has nominated a man who was too racist for a judgeship on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.

Wow.

dumpcare



Sal wrote:Trump has nominated a man who was too racist for a judgeship on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.

Wow.

He is also adamantly against any marijuana use whether you need or not. Guess what a whole bunch of people who voted for Trump in the panhandle (republican's) voted for him are regular users and I cannot count the senior's I've worked with since AEP started that want it for medicinal use. One 86 year old man yesterday with a 75 year old wife has been trying to get it for his glaucoma for years.

Guest


Guest

Sal wrote:The American Horror Show just got scarier ....

Sessions’ nomination will likely be met with opposition in the Senate. While serving as a U.S. attorney in Alabama, Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986, but he was never confirmed due to past racist comments. He withdrew his name from consideration and went on to be the Alabama attorney general and later a senator.

During the 1986 hearings to consider Sessions, J. Gerald Hebert, a Justice Department prosecutor, testified about how Sessions talked about a lawyer representing a black client. Herbert said that he once told Sessions that a judge had called a white lawyer “a disgrace to his race” for representing black clients. In response, Sessions said, “maybe he is,” Herbert said. Herbert also told Congress at the time that Sessions had called the NAACP “un-American” because the group was “trying to force civil rights down the throats of people.”

An African-American prosecutor testified to Congress that Sessions had called him “boy” and once joked that he felt the Ku Klux Klan “was O.K. until I found out they smoked pot.” Sessions denied called the prosecutor “boy” but not the other comments.

Though Sessions is likely to meet opposition from Democratic senators, it’s not clear how Republicans will approach his nomination now that he is one of their colleagues.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-sessions-attorney-general

Are we still in the "let's give him a chance" phase of the transition??
Klan leaders Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond weren't an issue for you.

Markle

Markle

Sal wrote:The American Horror Show just got scarier ....

Sessions’ nomination will likely be met with opposition in the Senate. While serving as a U.S. attorney in Alabama, Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986, but he was never confirmed due to past racist comments. He withdrew his name from consideration and went on to be the Alabama attorney general and later a senator.

During the 1986 hearings to consider Sessions, J. Gerald Hebert, a Justice Department prosecutor, testified about how Sessions talked about a lawyer representing a black client. Herbert said that he once told Sessions that a judge had called a white lawyer “a disgrace to his race” for representing black clients. In response, Sessions said, “maybe he is,” Herbert said. Herbert also told Congress at the time that Sessions had called the NAACP “un-American” because the group was “trying to force civil rights down the throats of people.”

An African-American prosecutor testified to Congress that Sessions had called him “boy” and once joked that he felt the Ku Klux Klan “was O.K. until I found out they smoked pot.” Sessions denied called the prosecutor “boy” but not the other comments.

Though Sessions is likely to meet opposition from Democratic senators, it’s not clear how Republicans will approach his nomination now that he is one of their colleagues.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-sessions-attorney-general

Are we still in the "let's give him a chance" phase of the transition??

As we all know, the KKK was founded as the radical wing of the Democrat Party.

I don't see how saying the KKK is okay, is in any way endorsing them. They are a legal organization.

What do you have to say about Lame Duck President Barack Hussein Obama backing and supporting Occupy Wall Street, New Black Panthers, and Black Lives Matter?

In the past eight years, which group, the KKK or the other listed, have caused more mayhem, destruction, and lives?

2seaoat



Jeff Sessions as AG is a pretty stark reality of what happens when the world becomes insane.

Markle

Markle

2seaoat wrote:Jeff Sessions as AG is a pretty stark reality of what happens when the world becomes insane.

Just now Progressives are getting a tinge of what thinking Americans had to endure for eight years.





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RealLindaL



2seaoat wrote:Jeff Sessions as AG is a pretty stark reality of what happens when the world becomes insane.

So you are finally moving beyond the equanimity of your earlier posts re the election of Trump?

RealLindaL



Markle wrote:Just now Progressives are getting a tinge of what thinking Americans had to endure for eight years.

Just had to throw in an insult (re "thinking Americans" vs. Progressives), didn't you? Soooo helpful to the conversation.

As for what you or anyone else had to "endure" for eight years, there's no comparison, because there has never in our nation's history been a person like Trump elevated to this high of a position in the U.S. government. He is unprecedented on so many levels one hardly knows where to begin. The only thing unprecedented about Obama was the color of his skin.

Markle

Markle

RealLindaL wrote:
Markle wrote:Just now Progressives are getting a tinge of what thinking Americans had to endure for eight years.

Just had to throw in an insult (re "thinking Americans" vs. Progressives), didn't you?  Soooo helpful to the conversation.

As for what you or anyone else had to "endure" for eight years, there's no comparison, because there has never in our nation's history been a person like Trump elevated to this high of a position in the U.S. government.  He is unprecedented on so many levels one hardly knows where to begin.  The only thing unprecedented about Obama was the color of his skin.

As you know and know well, Lame Duck President Barack Hussein Obama had no experience and he himself admitted he was not qualified. The largest thing he had ever run was an ACORN meeting.



So he knew he wasn't qualified and was talked into running. That's not self-confidence. That was shown by his arrogance and his need to "lecture" instead of engaging with his audience.

RealLindaL



Markle wrote:That was shown by his arrogance and his need to "lecture" instead of engaging with his audience.

Takes one to know one, eh Markle?

Wordslinger

Wordslinger

Tellthetruth wrote:
Sal wrote:The American Horror Show just got scarier ....

Sessions’ nomination will likely be met with opposition in the Senate. While serving as a U.S. attorney in Alabama, Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986, but he was never confirmed due to past racist comments. He withdrew his name from consideration and went on to be the Alabama attorney general and later a senator.

During the 1986 hearings to consider Sessions, J. Gerald Hebert, a Justice Department prosecutor, testified about how Sessions talked about a lawyer representing a black client. Herbert said that he once told Sessions that a judge had called a white lawyer “a disgrace to his race” for representing black clients. In response, Sessions said, “maybe he is,” Herbert said. Herbert also told Congress at the time that Sessions had called the NAACP “un-American” because the group was “trying to force civil rights down the throats of people.”

An African-American prosecutor testified to Congress that Sessions had called him “boy” and once joked that he felt the Ku Klux Klan “was O.K. until I found out they smoked pot.” Sessions denied called the prosecutor “boy” but not the other comments.

Though Sessions is likely to meet opposition from Democratic senators, it’s not clear how Republicans will approach his nomination now that he is one of their colleagues.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-sessions-attorney-general

Are we still in the "let's give him a chance" phase of the transition??
Klan leaders Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond weren't an issue for you.

And any white racist in politics is perfectly okay with folks like you. Right? Trump is lucky to have you on his side ... LOL

Markle

Markle

Wordslinger wrote:
Tellthetruth wrote:
Sal wrote:The American Horror Show just got scarier ....

Sessions’ nomination will likely be met with opposition in the Senate. While serving as a U.S. attorney in Alabama, Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986, but he was never confirmed due to past racist comments. He withdrew his name from consideration and went on to be the Alabama attorney general and later a senator.

During the 1986 hearings to consider Sessions, J. Gerald Hebert, a Justice Department prosecutor, testified about how Sessions talked about a lawyer representing a black client. Herbert said that he once told Sessions that a judge had called a white lawyer “a disgrace to his race” for representing black clients. In response, Sessions said, “maybe he is,” Herbert said. Herbert also told Congress at the time that Sessions had called the NAACP “un-American” because the group was “trying to force civil rights down the throats of people.”

An African-American prosecutor testified to Congress that Sessions had called him “boy” and once joked that he felt the Ku Klux Klan “was O.K. until I found out they smoked pot.” Sessions denied called the prosecutor “boy” but not the other comments.

Though Sessions is likely to meet opposition from Democratic senators, it’s not clear how Republicans will approach his nomination now that he is one of their colleagues.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-sessions-attorney-general

Are we still in the "let's give him a chance" phase of the transition??
Klan leaders Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond weren't an issue for you.

And any white racist in politics is perfectly okay with folks like you.  Right?  Trump is lucky to have you on his side ...  LOL

Grand Wizard Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for AG JesseJacksonRacism_zpsb37f1d21

Wordslinger

Wordslinger

Markle wrote:
Wordslinger wrote:
Tellthetruth wrote:
Sal wrote:The American Horror Show just got scarier ....

Sessions’ nomination will likely be met with opposition in the Senate. While serving as a U.S. attorney in Alabama, Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986, but he was never confirmed due to past racist comments. He withdrew his name from consideration and went on to be the Alabama attorney general and later a senator.

During the 1986 hearings to consider Sessions, J. Gerald Hebert, a Justice Department prosecutor, testified about how Sessions talked about a lawyer representing a black client. Herbert said that he once told Sessions that a judge had called a white lawyer “a disgrace to his race” for representing black clients. In response, Sessions said, “maybe he is,” Herbert said. Herbert also told Congress at the time that Sessions had called the NAACP “un-American” because the group was “trying to force civil rights down the throats of people.”

An African-American prosecutor testified to Congress that Sessions had called him “boy” and once joked that he felt the Ku Klux Klan “was O.K. until I found out they smoked pot.” Sessions denied called the prosecutor “boy” but not the other comments.

Though Sessions is likely to meet opposition from Democratic senators, it’s not clear how Republicans will approach his nomination now that he is one of their colleagues.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-sessions-attorney-general

Are we still in the "let's give him a chance" phase of the transition??
Klan leaders Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond weren't an issue for you.

And any white racist in politics is perfectly okay with folks like you.  Right?  Trump is lucky to have you on his side ...  LOL

Grand Wizard Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for AG JesseJacksonRacism_zpsb37f1d21


What's your point?

Floridatexan

Floridatexan

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/19/jeff-sessions-terrifying-prospect-black-americans

Jeff Sessions as attorney general: a terrifying prospect for black Americans

One of the more famous tag lines from President-elect Trump on the campaign trail was: “To my African-Americans: what do you have to lose?” If Alabama senator Jeff Sessions becomes the next attorney general of the United States, the answer is: everything.

There is no doubt that Steve Bannon – the executive chairman of the far-right website Breitbart News and newly minted senior adviser to the president-elect – has no place in the White House. Nor does Lt Michael Flynn, an Islamophobe with ties to Vladimir Putin who is Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as national security adviser. And yet, the most troubling appointment thus far has to be Alabama senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to serve as attorney general.

Sessions’ record on race first came to light during his confirmation for a federal judgeship in 1986. A prosecutor testified before Congress that Sessions had said he thought the Ku Klux Klan was “OK until I found out they smoked pot”. Sessions said he had been joking, but his judgeship was rejected. Many alarming allegations were made during the hearings, but the most disturbing involved the “Marion three”.

In 1984, the then US attorney Sessions prosecuted three civil rights workers, who were registering black people to vote in Alabama, for purportedly committing voter fraud. Sessions charged Albert Turner, his wife Evelyn Turner, and their fellow activist Spencer Hogue with 29 counts of fraud under the Voting Rights Act – with the group facing a sentence of over 100 years if they were convicted. All three were found not guilty.

The Marion Three never received a sincere apology from Sessions. And the senator’s existing hostility toward African Americans is proof that he has not learned anything from that experience.

There will be some who will argue that we should not judge someone’s present qualifications based on their past. Even if that’s the case, Sessions’ current record on race and as a US senator is equally terrifying.

Sessions believes the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is an “intrusive piece of legislation”. He has opposed efforts to remove the Confederate flag from state property. He has voted against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. He called for a constitutional amendment to stop granting automatic citizenship to people born in the US. He agreed with President-elect Trump’s ban on Muslims migrating to the US. He opposes same-sex marriage, and when Trump was quoted about grabbing women by their vaginas, Sessions called it a “stretch” to characterize that as “sexual assault”.

These are all deeply problematic views for anyone to hold – let alone the top law enforcement officer of the United States.

The Department of Justice’s mission is, among other things, to protect Americans from discrimination regardless of race, color, creed or sexual orientation. With Sessions, we have a well-documented history of hostility toward minority communities and vocal opposition to the laws that he would be sworn to protect and enforce should he be confirmed. Someone who was too problematic for the US Senate to confirm in 1986 should be too problematic for the Senate to confirm in 2017.

During an era of rampant voter suppression and strained police-community relations, the Department of Justice is as important as it has ever been in the lives of Americans – especially African Americans and Latino Americans who bear the brunt of police violence and voter suppression. An attorney general with a track record of hostility towards women, communities of color and the LGBT community is simply unfit to serve.

So to answer President-elect Trump’s question: “What do African-Americans have to lose?” With Sessions’ appointment to serve as the 84th attorney general of the United States, the answer is easy: everything.

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Markle

Markle

How is it possible for anyone to be more racist than Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch?

Have either of them prosecuted the New Black Panthers, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter or any other black racist group? Oh, that's right, Eric Holder dropped the case against seven New Black Panthers chapters when all that remained was the sentencing.

Mr. Sessions prosecuted the head of the KKK for murder, pushing for and obtaining the death sentence. He followed the case all the way through his execution.

Mr. Sessions also sued the KKK into oblivion in his state.

Explain to me again what Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch have done to reduce racism in America? They have worked hard to further divide the country. Even Democrats MUST know those facts.

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