Posted on 01/10/2017 3:57:46 AM PST by HomerBohn
Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, will apparently make history this week when he testifies before the Judiciary Committee against Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination for attorney general in hearings that begin Tuesday.
Booker's office said Monday that the Senate historian had been unable to find any previous instance of a sitting senator's testifying against a fellow sitting senator nominated for a Cabinet position.
Noting that "I'm breaking a pretty long Senate tradition," Booker said Monday on MSNBC's "All In": "We've seen Jeff Sessions — that's Senator Jeff Sessions — consistently voting against or speaking out against key ideals of the Voting Rights Act, taking measures to try to block criminal justice reform."
"He has a posture and a positioning that I think represent a real danger to our country," Booker said.
In 1986, the Senate Judiciary Committee killed President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Sessions to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama after four former Justice Department colleagues testified that he had made racially offensive statements.
Sessions turned the rejection into a launchpad for his political career. He was elected attorney general of Alabama before being elected in 1996 to the U.S. Senate, where he is considered among the more conservative members.
Related: NAACP Stages Sit-In to Protest Jeff Sessions' Attorney General Nomination
Several other prominent African-American figures in addition to Booker also plan to testify against Sessions, R-Alabama, a former U.S. attorney and attorney general in Alabama, including two members of the House: Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, a leader of the civil rights movement of the 1960s; and Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-Louisiana, the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
The NAACP has also strongly opposed Sessions' nomination, calling him "a threat to desegregation and the Voting Rights Act."
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And many libs think this clown could be President someday! LOL!
Knock your socks off, Cory. Sessions will still be confirmed via a simple majority, thanks to Harry Reid.
Suck on it.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/20/the-ugly-truth-about-cory-booker-new-jersey-s-golden-boy.html
Yet Booker is actually having to put up a fight to be more than just a congressional seat-warmer.
The alleged FBI and U.S. Attorney investigations into the Newark Watershed may have something to do with that. Months after he first entered the Senate, the New Jersey comptroller alleged that under Booker’s watch—or, more likely, because he was not watching—corruption ran rampant at a publicly funded water-treatment and reservoir-management agency, where Booker’s former law partner served as counsel.
And speaking of his former law career: Despite having resigned from his law firm once entering the mayor’s office, Booker received annual payments until 2011, during which time the firm was profiting handsomely off of Brick City. That would be the Brick City that Booker professed to love with the fire of a thousand suns, but did little to fundamentally change. Murder, violent crime, unemployment, and taxes all rose dramatically under his stewardship.
All the while, from 2006 to 2011, Booker was still receiving annual payments, which totaled close to $700,000, from his former law firm—Trenk, DiPasquale, Webster—from which he had resigned once elected mayor to avoid “the appearance of impropriety.” Booker’s campaign spokeswoman, Silvia Alvarez, told me: “He was paid out by the firm as part of his separation agreement for work he performed before he became mayor.”
OK, sure, but while Booker was profiting from the firm, they were profiting from Newark: over $2 million in work for Newark’s Housing Authority, the Watershed Conservation Development Corporation, and a wastewater agency. “That’s almost like Sharpe James-type shit,” one New Jersey Democratic operative offered.
sorry for bold... my mistake
Why Do Liberals Hate Cory Booker?
The mayor of Newark is a rising Democratic star with progressive positions on most issues. So why are so many on the left so critical?
Booker has, it is true, raised plenty of money from Wall Street over the years. Of the $8.6 million he’s raised for his Senate campaign, $531,000 came from the financial industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
This is hardly unique, even for a Democrat, and especially for a Democrat from New Jersey, a solidly blue state where many financial firms are headquartered. The two sitting members of Congress against whom Booker ran in the primary have both taken hundreds of thousands in financial-industry donations over the years. Frank Lautenberg, the late Democratic senator Booker is aiming to replace, raised $2 million of his $9 million campaign war chest in 2008 from the industry. Booker’s campaign has also drawn $700,000 in donations from Silicon Valley, according to the New York Times. The ties go beyond campaign support: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has donated $100 million to improve Newark’s schools, while various tech bigwigs have invested in Booker’s dubious tech startup.
The startup helped make Booker a millionaire; he has also made over $1 million for speaking appearances.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/why-do-liberals-hate-cory-booker/278992/
Unfortunately, I am not optimistic that there will be enough GOP senators who will have the backbone to stand up to this foaming at the mouth left wing mob. This will be a trail balloon for the next 4 years. If the GOP doesn't fight them off here, they will be pushed around for the next four years and squander the gains they made in November.
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!!
The Democrats must stop this demographic from dispassionately analyzing which party represents their interests and restore them to reflexive support of the Democratic Party out of fear, envy, and dependency. To do that these party leaders must play the race card to the useful idiots of American political discourse. The Sessions nomination is the convenient issue
Nathan Bedford's first maxim of American politics: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.
There is no reason why Cory Booker cannot be assailed for his record of anti-Semitism while he is testifying. It is time that these Democrats paid a price for Borking. Let them be humiliated on national television.
Race Card DENIED!
Who the heck is allowing this? Since its never been done, a point of order should take him off the list. Or at least put him on notice that there will be consequences.
All traditions are gone, courtesy of Obama.
We won’t be observing any traditions, either.
ESAD, MFs.
Booker and the rest of the parasite progressives are using the Sessions nomination as a campaign fundraiser. Pathetic.
What does ivanka now think about her time and money spent supporting Booker???
Look for this type of behavior by Booker from this point forward. He’s positioning himself for a run at the Democrat nomination in 2020.
Booker is the designated N***** to fight to the death for the black community that is offended mostly by living
LOL. If you want to counter the race card, Diamond and Silk would be more effective than Rice.
He’s an attention whore, looking take a name for himself.
I’d like to see Sessions pull a Clarence Thomas and call these people out. And go one step further.
Name them.
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