Donald Trump offers Jeff Sessions attorney general post

[brooklynite]

Source: CBS News

President-elect Trump has offered Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions the post of attorney general, sources directly involved in the selection process tell CBS News.

The choice of the Alabama senator to be the nation’s top prosecutor is sure to be controversial.

Sessions has been one of Mr. Trump’s closest and most consistent allies.

But when Sessions faced Senate confirmation for a job 30 years ago, it didn’t go well.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-offers-jeff-sessions-attorney-general-post/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=31306945

[BeyondGeography]

1. From Eric Holder to Jeff Sessions on voting rights

Wonderful.

[Solly Mack]

2. The horror show gets sicker and sicker.

[Submariner]

3. Welcome Boss Hog the Alabama Cracker

as our new AG. I think it's earths time for another big asteroid strike. Mother Nature needs a reset like the dinosaur age.

[Grey Lemercier]

4. another flat out redneck racist in a bad suit

the shitshow continues

[PearliePoo2]

6. MSNBC Morning Joe just said, "Not so fast." Sessions has NOT been offered A. G. yet.

[BeyondGeography]

10. Top story on the NYT

Sounds like another transition cluster.

[PearliePoo2]

11. CNN saying it now too.

Sessions....

[wordpix]

19. Ivanka and Jared did not like the pick: "Daddy, not so fast!"

They may have even less experience than the Don but they're young and hopefully won't let him go off the deep end or their ass is grass, too.

[turbinetree]

20. F*** you Morning Joe

your part of the problem, and now your trying to "normalize" this "stuff".
Have you gone back into your little get together with this white nationalist racist getting over $223,000 a year and that we the taxpayers are paying for.

Did you ever ask him if he was a racist there "morning joe", don't think so, your as much as a hypocrite as he is, but I forget, if you can get out the BS out there among the masses you get your 20 million a year salary and your comcast organization gets its stock to go up, because that is all that matters there "joe" right

[madaboutharry]

7. This is a disgrace.

Senate democrats must do everything they can to stop this bigot from becoming Attorney General. Jeff Sessions is an unreconstructed confederate.

[Grey Lemercier]

8. he has been there in the Senate forever, he will fly through

that club almost never eats its own

[bullwinkle428]

16. Sadly, I'm afraid you're right.

[gordianot]

13. One reason to drain the swamp you can find all the creatures at the bottom.

Christie and Rudy were discarded in favor of something just as disgusting.

[rawhideal]

9. Asshole

Well at least this asshole want be senator anymore, but he'll do more damage as AG. Bentley will just appoint another ASS. No way to win here.

[cannabis_flower]

12. Well, I suppose

he couldn't be any worse than Rudy.

[DFW]

14. As if John Ashcroft wasn't bad enough n/t

[Fast Walker 52]

15. awful, just awful... this must be opposed in the strongest terms

otherwise, we are looking at serious race riots

[riversedge]

17. Three of Trump's picks - Bannon, Flynn, Pompeo - have disparaged Muslims. Fourth, Sessions, critic

It is only getting worse--day by day.



Daniel Dale Verified account
?@ddale8

Three of Trump's picks - Bannon, Flynn, Pompeo - have disparaged Muslims. Fourth, Sessions, criticized distribution of books about Islam.



7:08 AM - 18 Nov 2016

[callous taoboy]

18. Myself, having been raised in the south,

every time I see Sessions speaking I can hear the N word just below the surface. You and I both can be sure that he has uttered that word many, many times in his life.

[still_one]

21. His racist background is no secret

"While serving as a United States prosecutor in Alabama, Mr. Sessions was nominated in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan for a federal judgeship. But his nomination was rejected by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee because of racially charged comments and actions. At that time, he was one of two judicial nominees whose selections were halted by the panel in nearly 50 years.

In testimony before the committee, former colleagues said that Mr. Sessions had referred to the N.A.A.C.P., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and other civil rights groups as “un-American” and “Communist-inspired.” An African-American federal prosecutor then, Thomas H. Figures, said Mr. Sessions had referred to him as “boy” and testified that Mr. Sessions said the Ku Klux Klan was fine “until I found out they smoked pot.” Mr. Sessions dismissed that remark as a joke.

Mr. Sessions was also accused of speaking disparagingly of the Voting Rights Act and the stringent oversight it placed on Southern states.

www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-attorney-general.html?&target=comments&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&modref=HPCommentsRefer&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#commentsContainer

[laserhaas]

22. Nobody from Governor Siegelman's state, should be a prosecutor

Much less the top dog.

This, does not, bode well!