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riversedge

(81,546 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 09:17 PM Jan 2017

Please call reps & senators Monday a.m. please-Senate votes Tuesday on Sessions #NoBanNOWall [View all]

Our work is barely started!!


paige ‏@daretothink53 27m27 minutes ago

paige Retweeted Daily Kos

Please call reps & senators tomorrow a.m. please


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/29/1627116/-Jeff-Sessions-laid-the-groundwork-for-Trump-s-Muslim-ban-and-must-be-rejected-by-the-Senate


The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote Tuesday on Jeff Session's nomination. Every Democratic Senator on that panel must vote against this nomination. Here's why:


To longtime Jeff Sessions observers, the chaos that unfolded in American airports on Saturday morning wasn’t a surprise. At all.

Rather, the refugee ban was the predictable culmination of years of advocacy from two of President Donald Trump’s most trusted advisors: White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller and attorney general designate Jeff Sessions. For years, Sessions and Miller—who was the Alabama senator’s communications director before leaving to join the Trump campaign—pushed research and talking points designed to make Americans afraid of refugees.

Press releases, email forwards, speeches on the Senate floor—Miller and Sessions used it all to make the case against Obama’s refugee program was a huge terror threat. The executive order Trump signed late in the day on Friday is just the logical conclusion of their work...................

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