Posted on 05/06/2009 10:12:43 AM PDT by Rufus2007
Now that Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. has been named the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, some on the far-left are gunning for Alabama's junior senator. The battle is happening as President Barack Obama is on the verge of naming an appointee to the Supreme Court to fill void of Justice David Souter.Some of the left-wing points that suggest Sessions has racist tendencies were incorporated into a May 6 Politico story by John Bresnahan and Manu Raju.
"By elevating Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to their top spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republicans have selected their chief inquisitor for President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee: a Southern, white conservative man who has drawn fire for racially insensitive comments in the past," Bresnahan and Manu Raju wrote. "Democrats like how this is looking."
The story sets up Sessions to be on the defensive about race by spinning the senator's own history. According to the Politico story, Sessions had been accused of unfairly targeting black civil rights workers for election fraud charges as a federal prosecutor during a 1986 Senate hearing for a spot on the federal bench.
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No shock they are working their own agenda of corrupt evil and not reporting the news.
Senator Sessions supported Holder for AG (unfortunately) and this is how the RATs are rewarding him.
You want racism?
How about Joe Biden smearing Clarence Thomas at his supeme court nominee hearing?
Senator Biden was the first questioner. Instead of the softball questions he’d promised to ask, he threw a beanball straight at my head, quoting from a speech I’d given four years earlier at the Pacific Legal Foundation and challenging me to defend what I’d said. ”I find attractive the arguments of scholars such as Stephen Macedo, who defend an activist Supreme Court that would strike down laws restricting property rights.” That caught me off guard, and I had no recollection of making so atypical a statement, which shook me up even more. “Now, it would seem to me what you were talking about,” Senator Biden went on to say, “is you find it attractive the fact that they are activists and they would like to strike down existing laws that impact on restricting the use of property rights, because you know, that is what they write about.”pp 235-236 of "My Grandfather's Son" by Clarence ThomasSince I didn’t remember making the statement in the first place, I didn’t know how to respond to it. All I could say in reply was that “it has been some time since I have read Professor Macedo … But I don’t believe that in my writings I have indicated that we should have an activist Supreme Court.” It was, I knew, a weak answer. Fortunately, though, the young lawyers who had helped prepare me for the hearing had loaded all of my speeches into a computer and at the first break in the proceedings they looked this one up. The senator, they found, had wrenched my words out of context. I looked at the text and saw that the passage he’d read out loud had been immediately followed by two other sentences: “But the libertarian argument overlooks the place of the Supreme Court in a scheme of separation of powers. One does not strengthen self-government and the rule of law by having the non-democratic branch of the government make policy.” The point I’d been making was the opposite of the one that Senator Biden claimed I had made.
[According to the Politico story, Sessions had been accused of unfairly targeting black civil rights workers for election fraud charges as a federal prosecutor during a 1986 Senate hearing for a spot on the federal bench.]
What were they? ACORN workers?
The left-wing smear machine is preparing for battle.
Do they mean ACORN?
Senator Foghorn Leghorn
That's it? A quarter of a century later they're accusing him of being Foghorn Leghorn?
I’m waiting for the “he’s a Rino” crowd to appear on this thread any minute.
Hopefully, Sessions has nothing to worry about. I suspect that, like me, many of his constituents will not vote for someone who has not been called racist, sexist, homophobic, radical and/or reactionary.
If a Congresscritter hasn’t pissed off the race pimps, the NAGS, and/or the lavender mafia, then he lacks guts or principles. In either case he’s not worth voting for.
Apparently Sessions is not entirely lacking; good for him.
Gee, what a co-inky-dinky...
Exactly. (taping fingers waiting)
I can’t imagine how stories like this are disseminated so quickly and effortlessly through the media. It’s almost as though there’s an organized agit-prop operation being run out of the White House. Bah: must be my paranoia acting up again.
This started yesterday in that curious article in The Guardian. As I said at the time, why on earth with British readers care who is chair of the Judiciary Committee.
Obviously it was the opening gun in a propaganda campaign. And now we see it moving right along. Soon to be on the evening news.
“Politico” was among the very first to start publishing private information about Joe The Plumber. They didn’t even pretend to have a reason for doing it.
I don't know if the guy was from the ACLU, Morris Dees' outfit, or another leftwing hate group, but it looks like his material was coming from a hit piece posted on a liberal website, except that the article at least quoted Sessions as saying his comments were made in jest...the same black attorney who made the charge that Sessions had called him "boy" is apparently the source for the other charges.
One of the crimes charged against Sessions is that he had defended Charles Pickering when he was the victim of the liberal assault.
Typical of the Party of Tolerance.
March 20, 1854: Opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon, Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party.
May 30, 1854: Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’ Kansas-Nebraska Act, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents unite to form the Republican Party.
June 16, 1854: Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party.
July 6, 1854: First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies.
February 11, 1856: Republican Montgomery Blair argues before U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott; later served in President Lincoln’s Cabinet.
You bet there is. Instead of tackling Pakistan, Iraq, the economy, etc., he's worrying about what Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage are saying about him. That's probably why he didn't want to give up his blackberry. He probably surfs the blogs all day to see what everyone is saying about him.
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