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Senate Dems Pen Letter Indicating Fight Against Jeff Sessions’ AG Nomination
Breitbart ^ | November 30, 2016 | Adelle Nazarian

Posted on 11/30/2016 7:57:13 AM PST by COUNTrecount

Senate Democrats are making it clear that Sen. Jeff Sessions will not have an easy time being confirmed as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s first attorney general.

In a letter addressed to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Democrats on the committee pushed for extensive confirmation hearings, indicating that they plan resistance, despite the fact that they referred to him as “a colleague” with whom they “have a personal and cordial relationship.”

The senators also requested that Grassley allow for outside witnesses to testify on Sessions’ track record on immigration, civil and voting rights, women’s rights, and government oversight due to his “extensive record” on these “important issues.”

Part of the letter reads, “[w]hen our country is struggling with so many divisions, the committee and the entire Senate must ask whether Senator Sessions is the right man to lead the agency charged with securing and protecting the constitutional and civil rights of all Americans.”

The letter was signed by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Richard “Dick” Durbin (D-IL), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Al Franken (D-MN), Christopher Koons (D-DE), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).

Earlier this month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — one of Congress’s most progressive legislators — called on President-elect Trump to rescind his decision to nomination

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Connecticut; US: Delaware; US: Illinois; US: Massachusetts; US: Minnesota; US: Rhode Island; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 114th; cabinet; democrats; radicalleft; senate; sessions; trump; trumpcabinet; trumptransition
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1 posted on 11/30/2016 7:57:13 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Bring it on ‘RATS -— yet another inglorious defeat awaits you.


2 posted on 11/30/2016 7:59:14 AM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Tell them all to eat a turd

I guess they forgot “Elections have consequences”


3 posted on 11/30/2016 7:59:24 AM PST by arl295
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To: COUNTrecount

I “call on” these LIB degenerates to STFU.


4 posted on 11/30/2016 7:59:30 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: COUNTrecount

SOP

That said, it is like Ashcroft redux.


5 posted on 11/30/2016 7:59:33 AM PST by QualityMan (I will not comply.)
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To: COUNTrecount

They will NEVER be able to mount an opposition such as they did with Justice Clarence Thomas. Bring it on biches.......


6 posted on 11/30/2016 7:59:50 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: COUNTrecount

Democrats on the committee???

Why are ANY Demonrats even Allowed on these committee’s???? I could understand having one just to be bipartisan, but that should be the limit.

WE WON, YOU LOST, Get in the Back of the BUS!


7 posted on 11/30/2016 7:59:54 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I think Trump has a deal with McConnell to trigger the nuclear option. I think the Elaine Chao appointment confirms this.


8 posted on 11/30/2016 8:00:14 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: arl295

And I guess they also forgot that they made it possible to nominate Sessions with 50 votes plus a Pence tiebreaker.


9 posted on 11/30/2016 8:00:19 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: COUNTrecount

Elections have consequences


10 posted on 11/30/2016 8:00:36 AM PST by thorvaldr
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To: COUNTrecount

They are going to do to him what they did to John Tower.......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tower


11 posted on 11/30/2016 8:01:27 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: dirtboy

Or the Republicans can put the senate into recess and Trump can make all the necessary recess appointments immediately

That would show them as well

Many ways to skin this cat


12 posted on 11/30/2016 8:01:37 AM PST by arl295
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Nuke’m from orbit!


13 posted on 11/30/2016 8:02:12 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: COUNTrecount

Obama: “...election is over, I-I-I-I WON!...”


14 posted on 11/30/2016 8:02:47 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: Red Badger

Perhaps they need to see Gowdy’s name instead of sessions. That should raise the hair on their necks. Bwahahahahahahahahaha


15 posted on 11/30/2016 8:02:50 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: dirtboy

I bet McCain will always vote with the Rats.


16 posted on 11/30/2016 8:03:12 AM PST by hsmomx3 (Love my Steelers!!)
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To: COUNTrecount

The Left has spent decades politicizing DOJ. They know full well Session will clean up the cesspool.

It needs to be made perfectly clear to GOP Senators, and Dem Senators running for reelection in Red and Purple states, that Sessions will be AG or their will be electoral consequences in 2018.

Senators, either stand with the Voters or you stand with the Dc Machine against us. There is no where to hide on this one.


17 posted on 11/30/2016 8:04:29 AM PST by MNJohnnie (This revolt is not ending, it is merely beginning.- Pat Caddell)
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To: COUNTrecount

You mean a fair and impartial racist DOJ like Loretta Lynch? Give me a break.


18 posted on 11/30/2016 8:04:49 AM PST by Tennessee Conservative
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To: COUNTrecount
Dear Democraps:

We've broken one open to get you started.

Love,
The Winners

19 posted on 11/30/2016 8:05:05 AM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is public enemy #1)
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To: COUNTrecount

Does anybody recall what kind of opposition R’s put up to Lynch?


20 posted on 11/30/2016 8:05:45 AM PST by all the best
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