live--cspan 3 confirmation hearing on jeff sessions for attorney general

[orleans]

he's holding a little, restless two year old on his lap

really? he needed to bring his granddaughter in on this?

ugh

ooo

i clicked away and she's seated now.

grassley opens and lays it on thick

feinstein is on now

[riversedge]

1. Sen leahy paid tribute to Feinsein. She is talking nowStrong woman,

[riversedge]

2. BTW--First Ranking *woman Menber of Senate judiciary Commitee

[riversedge]

3. DF: Sessions --extremely conservative votes.

[riversedge]

4. says Sessions refuses to R/O waterboarding

[bigtree]

5. DiFi getting to the meat of it now

...anti-civil rights, anti-Muslim, anti-gender identity, anti-sexual orientation, against hate crime legislation...

[riversedge]

7. yup

[riversedge]

6. Sessions refused to vote yeah for amendment to extend Hate crime bill to Gender Identity

[lamp_shade]

8. More protesters.

[flamingdem]

9. Code pink on the job

[riversedge]

11. Do you know what is with the hats they are wearing?

[flamingdem]

14. Isn't that a Statue of Liberty crown?

Just saw it for a second

[bigtree]

12. before sunrise

CODEPINK ?@codepink 4h4 hours ago
CODEPINK is out this morning waiting to go into Sessions confirmation hearing. End racism #StopSessions

[riversedge]

15. One of them just got lead out by security. But a Big Thank you to Code Pink

[riversedge]

10. damn--sen Collins just said she will be voting YES for Vile Sessions

[riversedge]

13. Seems. Susan is laying on the sweets about Session real thick. Nauseating

[Bettie]

16. I read the thing wrong

Oops.

[obamanut2012]

18. She was my last hope for a sane Senate

The hell with her.

[bigtree]

17. while Sessions drones on, like he actually cares about civil rights

...much less comprehends the need for them:

The Marshall Project ?@MarshallProj 20h20 hours ago
The @NAACP_LDF's new report on Jeff Sessions — and his stance on criminal justice and civil rights — is a must-read. http://bit.ly/2jvO1N5

[orleans]

19. please keep posting updates

i have to go soon but i want to read them later

thanks

love you guys!

[bigtree]

23. I'd like to keep on this, but I can't stand talking to myself in this forum

...I think every DUer should be weighing in here (and to their Sens), but here we are.

[riversedge]

26. I was with you but gave up for a while.

[bigtree]

20. he's positively creepy

...but I wonder, after the election of Trump, if it helps or hurts him to be so transparently fake on Civil Rights.

Isaac Saul ?@Ike_Saul 6m6 minutes ago
Sessions admits he thinks Roe v. Wade is "colossal mistake"
Makes clear he doesn't support same-sex marriage
Says he'll "follow the law"

[bigtree]

21. "It's a matter I have not thought through"

Nathan G ?@nwg83 12m12 minutes ago
Sessions, "It's a matter I have not thought through" re appropriations for victims of sex crimes to receive appropriate medical treatment.

Parker Molloy ?@ParkerMolloy 13m13 minutes ago
Reminder: Jeff Sessions thinks hate crime protections for LGBTQ people "cheapen the civil rights movement." (2009) https://www.congress.gov/amendment/111th-congress/senate-amendment/1617/text …

[bigtree]

22. Sen. Leahy up

...VWA.

"Let's talk about the facts behind your opposition to the Act"

Why did you vote against extending protections to LGBT...?

Claims he voted against VWA because of an issue with tribal courts.

[a kennedy]

24. Oh shut up about alabama.......they lost.

and quit being the "good cop". Ugh........

[riversedge]

25. Cruz is actually saying The Democratic Members on this Committee were Silent -over and over...

about things he believes to be wrong about the Obama Adm. whow.

[orleans]

27. back. hatch up. bletch. he LOVES jeffy -- ugh

[orleans]

28. feinstein is back