The GOP will likely let Jeff Sessions, (Rep) Al. , be the one to lead the questioning. Sessions was Reagan's choice for U S District Court in Alabama in 1986.
He tried to prosecute three civil rights workers, one who was a former aide to Martin Luther King, Jr.on a case of voter fraud. He was unsuccessful.
He labeled the National Association For Colored People (NAACP), and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), "un-american" and "communist-inspired". Sessions called a white civil rights lawyer a "disgrace to his race"
Sessions said most of the time he had been joking and was sometimes "loose with his tongue". He also admitted to calling the Voting Rights Act of 1965 " a piece of intrusive legislation". I think the confirmation hearings will be lively.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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