Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, one of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters, has been tapped as Attorney General – subject to senate confirmation, of course.
The good news is tha Sessions has a strong legal background.
The neutral news is that he is very politically conservative – which is either good if you like this philosophy and bad if you don’t.
The bad news is that he clearly has very negative personal opinions regarding gay organizations and gay marriage. If they remain personal, that would be fine – he is entitled to his opinion. But if he intends to carry that opinion into judicial rulings – which I have no doubt he would do – is extremely troubling to me.
Additional bad news is that, albeit a good many years ago (nothing in the past 20 or so years that I’ve heard of so far), Mr. Sessions has a history of troubling statements about race that he claims were jokes but, I assure you, would not be funny to any Black person.
The bottom line? I’m not surprised Mr. Trump would offer Sessions the job, given his early and loyal support. But I wish he had not done so, and would be far happier with someone else in that position.
What about Rudy Giuliani, Mr. Trump?
Sessions should have an easier time with senate confirmation. Rudy might be tougher to get through. But I would love to see Rudy as AG.
Supposedly Rudy did not want AG. Surprised by your negativity w/o all the facts. Sen. Sessions has always struck me as a principled man who always refers back to to …..the law; something our last two AG’s are not familiar with.
Gerry Herbert, a former DOJ attorney who made the the accusations against Sessions has a history of race based lies. He was castigated in the Court of Appeals for bringing a bias case unsupported by the facts. The Dept of Justice paid $86,624 to the defendants.
He once cost American taxpayers $86,626.24 in attorneys’ fees and costs awarded against the Justice Department for bringing an unjustified case under the Voting Rights Act.
Not only did Hebert lose, but Justice was castigated by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in U.S. v. Jones, 125 F.3d 1418 (1997), for what it concluded was “a very troubling case.” (Hebert is listed as the Justice counsel of record in the district court opinion, U.S. v. Jones, 846 F.Supp. 955 (1994)). According to the 11th Circuit:
“A properly conducted investigation would have quickly revealed that there was no basis for the claim that the Defendants were guilty of purposeful discrimination against black voters…Unfortunately, we cannot restore the reputation of the persons wrongfully branded by the United States as public officials who deliberately deprived their fellow citizens of their voting rights. We also lack the power to remedy the damage done to race relations in Dallas County by the unfounded accusations of purposeful discrimination made by the United States.
We can only hope that in the future the decision
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https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2016/11/18/crying-wolf-on-race-top-jeff-sessions-critic-gerry-hebert-has-history-of-making-it-up/?singlepage=true
Sounds like another High-Tech Lynching. (h/t Clarence Thomas)