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Sessions pick as AG could spark exodus from civil rights division
 Of course, this is a swamp that needs drained too and if they self drain... WINNING!
Longtime lawyers in the unit that enforces voting rights laws, conducts investigations into alleged police abuses and prosecutes hate crimes were already on edge about what Trump's victory would mean for their mission, but the selection of Sessions pushed those fears to another level, former officials said. "If there was a level above DEFCON One, it would be that," said Sam Bagenstos, who was the civil rights division's No. 2 official from 2009 to 2011. "Jeff Sessions has a unique and uniquely troubled history with the civil rights division. ... From the perspective of the work of the enforcement of civil rights, I think the Sessions pick is a particularly troublesome one ‐ more than anyone else you can think of." The concern at the Justice Department's anti-discrimination unit stems largely from the same accounts of alleged racist remarks and racially tinged incidents that emerged when Sessions was nominated to a district court judgeship in 1986. The Senate Judiciary Committee heard a black lawyer testify that Sessions referred to him as "boy," and another attorney testify that Sessions said about the Ku Klux Klan that he thought the group was "OK, until I heard that they smoked pot." Sessions said that was a joke and he denied allegations that he'd used an ugly racial epithet. But his nomination was voted down 10-8, only the second time that had happened in half a century. However, the grievances many of the Justice Department's civil rights enforcers have with Sessions go beyond his language to his actions as U.S. attorney in Mobile, where he unsuccessfully prosecuted black civil rights leaders on charges of ballot-tampering. Chaser In Alabama, Jeff Sessions Desegregated Schools and Got the Death Penalty for KKK Murderer Doesn't fit the narrative so they won't accept it. Posted by: DarthVader 2016-11-20 |
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