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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Dec 31, 2016, 01:43 PM Dec 2016

Sessions Omits Decades of Records for Hearings [View all]

Source: Political Wire



December 31, 2016 By Taegan Goddard

“President-elect Donald Trump’s 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 by progressive advocacy groups,” the Huffington Post reports.

“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.”

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Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2016/12/31/sessions-omits-decades-records-hearings/

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But, but MurrayDelph Dec 2016 #1
He could set a cross on fire in front of where Obama is moving with his wife after the election cstanleytech Dec 2016 #2
I really wish Reid kept the rules in place yeoman6987 Dec 2016 #4
What the hell does that have to do with Sessions? Kingofalldems Dec 2016 #5
If we still had the filibuster intact, we could use it against him. n/t pnwmom Dec 2016 #10
If they hadn't changed the rules BumRushDaShow Dec 2016 #7
The poster brings this up quite often. Kingofalldems Dec 2016 #9
Schumer and crew are going to need to have an intimate knowledge BumRushDaShow Dec 2016 #11
Yes, indeed. Thank you. appal_jack Jan 2017 #21
No offense but, DK504 Dec 2016 #12
Wow. Racist Sessions withholds information and you attack Sen. Reid. Kingofalldems Dec 2016 #16
That would seal the deal for them Danmel Dec 2016 #8
Wait, wait.... don't tell me.... Turbineguy Dec 2016 #3
Republicans are the Kings of lies and hiding truth. Alabama now blocks about a third of voters. Sunlei Dec 2016 #6
A third of voters? One in three are blocked? hughee99 Dec 2016 #13
Look up voting rights in Alabama and see how people are excluded from voting. Sunlei Dec 2016 #14
I did, that's why I was aksing for a link to your "1 in 3" stat. hughee99 Dec 2016 #15
Imagine if Hillary's SOS nominee tried this. The GOP would be screaming for his / her head! Initech Dec 2016 #17
The ministry of defense has wiped the past clean for nominee Sessions. sarcasmo Dec 2016 #18
Soon to be renamed 'Ministry of Truth' tenorly Dec 2016 #19
No way, there is nobody that is too racist for the GOP. It is one of their unwritten Rex Dec 2016 #20
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