Posted on 11/16/2016 8:49:09 PM PST by usafa92
WASHINGTON — In 1981, a Justice Department prosecutor from Washington stopped by to see Jeff Sessions, the United States attorney in Mobile, Ala., at the time. The prosecutor, J. Gerald Hebert, said he had heard a shocking story: A federal judge had called a prominent white lawyer “a disgrace to his race” for representing black clients.
“Well,” Mr. Sessions replied, according to Mr. Hebert, “maybe he is.”
In testimony before Congress in 1986, Mr. Hebert and others painted an unflattering portrait of Mr. Sessions, who would go on to become a senator from Alabama and now, according to numerous sources close to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team, is a potential nominee for attorney general or secretary of defense. Mr. Hebert testified that Mr. Sessions had referred to the American Civil Liberties Union and the N.A.A.C.P. as “un-American” for “trying to force civil rights down the throats of people.”
One African-American prosecutor testified that Mr. Sessions had called him “boy” and joked that he thought that the Ku Klux Klan “was O.K. until I found out they smoked pot.”
Mr. Sessions denied calling the lawyer “boy” but acknowledged or did not dispute the substance of the other remarks. The bitter testimony sank his nomination by President Ronald Reagan to be a federal district court judge and foreshadowed the questions that Mr. Sessions could face at another set of Senate confirmation hearings if Mr. Trump nominates him for a cabinet position.
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Lesson: Never joke with liberals.
Specter of race?
Did he do badly in a 5k?
Get the #### out of here slimes, you are freaking DONE!!
Sell while you can make a few dollars.
Sessions is being slandered. Crazy leftist media is looking to weaken Trump cabinet. Ignore them! Just simply ignore them.
“In 1981...” I stopped right at there since I have known the BS NYT tries to peddle
Tell me you're f******* joking...
Unattributed, not even an attempt to provide supporting evidence, just the unsubstantiated, unsourced allegation left to stand as fact.
These shites should not have a newspaper, nor the legal right to operate one. It's a propaganda arm of the globalist DNC/GOP Cabal.
Can't we just drone them?
Doesn’t matter that Obama snorted coke, hung out with nothing but communists and terrorists, was mentored by such human filth, has multiple SS numbers, etc. That’s all fine and dandy.
But a white guy saying something racially tinged 30 years ago, not that’s a BIG STORY. FU Pinchy Sulzberger and your commie rag.
Trump should put Sessions on the Supreme Court.
Gee, I must have been dreaming a few days ago when I read the mea culpa article in the Times admitting their bias and vowing to be more fair in their coverage.
I fervently wish that one of Trump’s rich friends would buy the NY Times and put it out of its miserable existence.
thank you and may God continue to bless you, Jeff Sessions. yours was the political strategy leading to this win.
thank you for laying out this course years in advance and staying strong though the thin years. thick years in the Trump administration finally coming to you.
Did Jeff Sessions ever belong to the KKK? Well, Robert Byrd did and he was Lionized as the elder statesman, constitutional watchdog etc etc.
Did he ever say anything like: Abortion was needed, to prevent certain groups of people from procreating? Well Ruth Bader Ginsford did - I heard her on live TV.
Looks like the honeymoon is over already. Sad!
Laz has coined a new word to describe what is going on:
RACIALYING: The Act Of Falsely Claiming Racism
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3494888/posts
I managed to use it today in an interaction with a Leftist.
LOL!!! 35 year old anecdotes that cannot be verified or refuted - they got nuthin’
Thank you for spreading this meme!
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