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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScrub, little Jeffy! SCRUB! SCRUB those nasty "Jeffy is a racist" remarks and BE OUR #MAGA A.G.!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-attorney-general_us_586680bce4b0eb58648909c8
Jeff Sessions Omits Decades Of Records For His AG Confirmation Hearing
He once argued that doing this is a felony.
12/30/2016 03:34 pm ET
WASHINGTON ― President-elect Donald Trumps pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, is withholding decades worth of records from his career ahead of his Senate confirmation hearings early next month, according to an exhaustive report issued Friday by progressive advocacy groups.
The groups, which include Alliance for Justice and People for the American Way, reviewed the questionnaire that Sessions filled out for the Senate Judiciary Committee ― it requires complete documentation of employment history, published writings, interviews and speeches, among other things ― and found astonishingly deficient responses. He left out major details from his years as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, from 1981 to 1993; as attorney general of Alabama, from 1995 to 1997; and as a first-term U.S. senator, from 1997 to 2002.
The gaps encompass the time, for example, when Sessions was nominated to be a federal judge in 1986 ― and then rejected after being deemed too racist.
He also omitted dozens of recent interviews, some of which included controversial statements he made. An October interview in which Sessions gave Trump a pass for making sexist comments, because everybody knows that Trump likes women and uses this kind of talk, was not cited in his questionnaire. A December 2015 interview in which Sessions says the predictions arent coming true about climate change having disastrous effects is also not mentioned.
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Scrub, little Jeffy! SCRUB! SCRUB those nasty "Jeffy is a racist" remarks and BE OUR #MAGA A.G.! (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Dec 2016
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avebury
(10,952 posts)1. I wish that Congress would refuse to hold hearings on his nomination.
The fact that he has intentionally withheld documents should be grounds to refuse to approve his nomination. By refusing to honor full disclosure he has already acknowledge that he is a flawed nominee and doesn't deserve the office.
underpants
(182,823 posts)2. He was okay with the Klan until he found out they smoked pot
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)3. F*ck Sessions and
the one who nominated him! F*ck anyone who votes to confirm him!