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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeff Sessions Was Deemed Too Racist To Be A Federal Judge. He Might Become Trumps Attorney General.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-racist-remarks_us_582cd73ae4b099512f80c0c2WASHINGTON ― The man who President-elect Donald Trump may nominate as the 84th attorney general of the United States 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. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), an early Trump supporter who has been playing a major role on the Trump transition team, met with the president-elect in New York on Thursday. A former aide to Sessions is managing the Justice Department transition.
While nothing has been finalized and he is still talking with others as he forms his cabinet, the President-elect has been unbelievably impressed with Senator Sessions and his phenomenal record as Alabamas Attorney General and U.S. Attorney, the Trump team said in a statement about the meeting.
J. Gerald Hebert remembers Sessions time as the top federal prosecutor in Mobile, Alabama, well ― and is stunned that an Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a possibility. More than three decades ago, Hebert was in his 30s and working on voting rights cases for the Department of Justices Civil Rights Division. He was based in D.C. but spent time in Alabama working with Sessions, who was a U.S. attorney in Ronald Reagans administration.
He was very affable, always wanting to have a conversation, a cup of coffee, Hebert told The Huffington Post this week. Over the course of those months, I had a number of conversations with him, and in a number of those conversations he made remarks that were deeply concerning.
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Jeff Sessions Was Deemed Too Racist To Be A Federal Judge. He Might Become Trumps Attorney General. (Original Post)
Grey Lemercier
Nov 2016
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InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)1. I'm shocked I tell you...shocked!
Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)2. I cannot tell you
how destructive Sessions would be to people like me.
He is just an evil human being.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)3. ...