Ultra Conservative Senator Called Civil Rights Groups ‘Un-American’
Donald Trump has offered the coveted role of Attorney General to ultra conservative U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama. Sessions was the first member of the Senate to endorse the Manhattan real estate mogul.
Sessions serves as Chairman of the Judiciary committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Refugees. He has been a top advisor to the Trump campaign.
The Alabama Senator was once considered for a role on the federal bench but his racist views led to him not being confirmed.
UPDATE I: 7:46 AM ET –
The Huffington Post’s Senior Justice Reporter Ryan J. Reilly Thursday evening wrote that Sessions “was once rejected as a federal judge over allegations he called a black attorney ‘boy,’ suggested a white lawyer working for black clients was a race traitor, joked that the only issue he had with the Ku Klux Klan was their drug use, and referred to civil rights groups as ‘un-American’ organizations trying to ‘force civil rights down the throats of people who were trying to put problems behind them.'”
UPDATE: 8:02 AM ET –
After seeing the “Access Hollywood” video from 2005 in which Trump talked about grabbing women by their genitals, Sessions, an attorney, said, “I don’t characterize that as sexual assault. I think that’s a stretch.”
Asked if “you grab a woman by the genitals, that’s not sexual assault?” Sessions said, “It’s not clear that he — how that would occur.”
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