Posted on 01/10/2017 7:16:01 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Booker to testify against Trump’s Attorney General nominee on Wednesday – as Rudy says Sessions is 'not a racist' – and GOP delays hearing on education pick Betsy DeVos
Democrats have expressed concern about Sessions's civil rights record
In 1986, Sessions was denied a federal judgeship by President Ronald Reagan
Testimony from multiple former colleagues of Sessions suggested he was racist
Trump supporter former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who used to work with Sessions, called the charges against him 'ridiculous' and said his accusers were 'intellectually dishonest'
When Sen Sessions was a 39-year-old US attorney in Alabama he was denied a federal judgeship by President Ronald Reagan
The Senate fight over President-elect Donald Trump's pick of Sen Jeff Sessions to become attorney general is turning into a showdown over race, wth New Jersey senator Corey Booker set to testify against the Alabama Republican and Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani saying Sessions is 'not a racist' and blasting 'ridiculous' attacks.
Sessions is the first Trump cabinet nominee to get a confirmation hearing when the Senate Judiciary Committee meets Tuesday morning, and his nomination is already drawing fireworks.
Booker is set to testify Wednesday against the Alabama Republican during the latter's attorney general confirmation hearing, while the Trump transition is lining up allies to defend him. Civil Rights legend Rep. John Lewis of Georgia also will testify.
It's rare for a sitting senator to testify against a colleague picked for a Cabinet post, and a break from the chamber's sometimes clubby atmosphere. 'Come on, this is a guy who prosecuted the Klan, one life sentence, one I I think, death sentence,' Giuliani said.
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I’ll vote for the homo and not for cuomo-2020!
Thank-you for posting those photos!
I hope someone shows them at the Session confirmation hearings in the Senate chamber.
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