Posted on 11/19/2016 5:05:40 PM PST by jazusamo
The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee came out against Sen.Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as President-elect Donald Trump’s designee for attorney general on Saturday in a symbolic gesture.
The House members, who do not have a say in whether Sessions will be confirmed, issued a joint statement on Saturday, led by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the committee’s ranking Democrat.
“We acknowledge that elections have consequences, and that we may have policy disagreements with whomever the Trump Administration selects to lead the Department of Justice,” they said in the statement. “Our concerns about this appointment are not mere policy disputes.”
“Senator Sessions does not seem fit to lead the Department of Justice. His selection can only serve to divide us. We urge President-elect Trump to select an Attorney General who is qualified to protect and defend the constitutional rights of all Americans.”
Sessions was rejected by the Senate in 1986 when Ronald Reagan nominated him for a federal judgeship, after the then-prosecutor’s former colleagues testified that he had a history of making racist comments.
The statement cited much of the testimony from that year and added, “There is serious evidence that Sessions' outlook has not improved.”
The group lashed out at Sessions’s stances on domestic violence and immigration, noting that the Southern Poverty Law Center has blasted his association with “deeply racist” anti-immigration activists.
“Mr. Sessions remains a favorite of Stormfront, an online bastion of white nationalism,” the joint statement reads. “His selection will reinforce the appointment of Steven Bannon, who built a media network dedicated to spreading bigoted, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic views.
“It doubles down on Mr. Trump’s association with figures like Frank Gaffney and Alex Jones, whose conspiracy theories would be laughable if they did not now threaten to undo decades of progress in America.”
Democrats are largely united in their opposition to Sessions as a nominee, with the sole exception of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.).
In order to block the senator’s confirmation they will need crossover help from Republicans, none of who have come out against Sessions.
No more immigration from Third World countries. Deport all illegal aliens and reverse the demographic warfare that has resulted in a path to white minority status
Repeal the Immigration Act of 1965!
Tracing Liberal Woes to 1965 Immigration Act (or, how Ted Kennedy destroyed America)
http://www.cis.org/articles/1995/olg12-28-95.html ^
What went wrong with liberalism? Current and former liberals, like myself, should be even more interested in this puzzle than conservatives are. There are no simple answers nor a single pivotal moment of error, but the 30th anniversary this month of the 1965 Immigration Act illuminates the issue.
The Immigration Act was given only modest attention at its inception and even less in histories of the Great Society. In retrospect, however, it can be seen as perhaps the single most nation-changing measure of the era. The Hart-Celler Act, as it was called at the time, abolished the national origins quota system installed in the 1920s, shifting the basis for selection from an applicants nation of birth to his or her family relationships or skills.
A few critics questioned whether the new legislation, originally launched by President John F. Kennedy, would enlarge the immigrant flow and shift it from Europe to Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Supporters emphatically denied this. The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) said. Attorney General Robert Kennedy predicted 5,000 immigrants from the entire Asia-Pacific Triangle, after which immigration from that source would virtually disappear.
The effect of the bill on our population [in numbers] would be quite insignificant, Rep. Emanuel Celler, the act’s co-sponsor, said.
The importance of the law lay not in any change in immigrations volume or composition, sponsors said, but in its overdue elimination of the odious discrimination in US immigration law in favor of or against people on the basis of where they were born. The 1965 law was thus seen more as an extension of the civil rights movement than an immigration measure.
But 30 years later, it’s clear that the assurances of the law’s sponsors were untrue. The number of legal immigrants immediately jumped to 400,000, then to 800,000 by 1980, and reached well over 1 million in the early 1990s, when those given amnesty in 1986 and their relatives are added to the total. Illegal immigrants add 300,000 or more annually, many coming to join legally admitted relatives. Total immigration last year was 1.2 million, according to Center for Immigration Studies calculations. Whats worse, the number of legal admissions is set by statute, unrelated to overall economic trends such as unemployment.
Conyers?? Really? Shouldn't he be with his son?
Too bad for them. After the past 8 yrs , meh.
And the result has been a Balkanized America wracked by ethnic hatreds and violence unseen since the end of the Indian Wars in the 1880s.
Hart-Cellar was built on LIES.
The more the left squeals, the better we know Trump’s picks are.
And yet, these “honorable” Congress members were perfectly fine with an AG who ran guns to Mexican drug cartels and encouraged voter intimidation by the New Black Panther party.
Their hypocrisy is mind-boggling.
Those who appose are in with them
The question to ask these scumbags is, what are they afraid of?
Just how guilty are they?
I think he should have been in prison with his wife. Pure scum.
Well said, the Rat hypocrites put party and politics above the country.
“Senator Sessions does not seem fit to lead the Department of Justice. His selection can only serve to divide us.”
Yes. He will divide and reveal blithering racialists and contrast those vermin from those who revere the constitutional priorities you speak of but could not care less about.
“House Judiciary Dems come out against Sessions”
And the constitution doesn’t recognize your participation in cabinet appointments.
Stand our ground, always refuse to capitulate to a false narrative created by the looney lefty.
Yep, and what pitiful examples of justice those two turkeys are.
Who cares as they have not vote in the matter.
Conyers sadly doesn’t have the IQ of our dead dog.
Obviously the correct pick based upon the response.
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