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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Probably no sitting Senator ever ate a dog turd on the Senate floor, either...
He is simply starting his own presidential campaign with this stunt
If they won't fight, Trump will. If we've learned nothing else about Trump, we've learned that he is nobody's doormat.
Among Dems a strong Booker performance at the confirmation hearings excoriating Sessions will raise his stock and visibility for 2020. This is clearly one of the motivating factors for Booker and the Dems who have a thin bench.
He will be this year’s Anita Hill.
A liar making FAKE NEWS in a bid for the Powers That Be to keep their Power intact.
It is probably well coordinated to try to croak Sessions - on Google News this AM you have to look for Jefferson Session or Jefferson Beauregard Sessions. C’mon man!
I can’t imagine what Booker could legitimately have against Sessions, but being a Democrat means you don’t have to really have anything to present.
This nomination, for the standard bearer of Conservatism through these 10 years of dark hours, MUST carry. He needs to become AG and we all need to go to the mattresses to make it so.
“Immediately after his testimony have Condoleeza Rice testify in favor of Sessions - I believe she said she was supporting him.”
I had a similar thought: Send Sen. Tim Scott from South Carolina out to testify to his colleague’s track record on the support of civil rights and the Constitution.
We had a Senator that was a Leader in the KKK.
NO MORE HISTORIC MOVES PLEASE!
Thank you Harry Reid — Only 50 votes required for confirmation....na na na naaaaaaaa, na na na naaaaaaaa, hey hey who cares what this dip$hit has to say...He can grandstand and beat his chest all he wants and in the end it doesn’t mean $hit.
The rules put in place by Harry Reid assured that Trump will get everyone he has submitted for nomination.
And if Mitch McConnell has any sack he will prevent this from becoming a spectacle.
I too am from NJ.
Be careful Senator, people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Wouldn’t want you to need to explain why you live in NYC with you “friend”. Your voter base in Newark does not approve of that.
Bad people have bad habits...
Will he be sober?
CC
So sick of the bigoted BLM mob.
Obbumah II ...
Booker is Obama light.
Unaccomplished
Graded on a curve
Big mouth
Limited intellect
White hater
Right! The headline reads as though this is a good thing that a complete and utterly worthless ass can stand up and bray insulting remarks about a most honorable man!
Maybe Booker can move in with Harry Reid when he realizes his political career is over. It will be sooner than he thinks.
Cory is a liar and has not even implemented the truth of his heritage into his own thinking and life.
Cory is the racist and is speaking more about himself than anyone else when he stated “”He has a posture and a positioning that I think represent a real danger to our country,” Booker said.”
Cory Booker has had his fifteen minutes of fame. With Obama wallowing in the forever cesspool of obscurity, after January 20, 2017....Booker is trash can material with no where to go, but into the deep inner bowels of the local garbage truck!!! No one cares about one word he utters!!! End of story!!!
And...Senator, .Jeff Sessions, fine and great American he is to “all” Americans will be the best Attorney General of the USA!!! Bank on it!!!
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