Posted on 12/19/2016 11:06:07 AM PST by jazusamo
When hearings for attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions start next month, prepare for a trip back in time to 1986. Three decades ago, his nomination for a seat on the federal bench was wrecked because Jeff Sessions fought voter fraud as a United States attorney.
The same group of far-left activists are again opposing Jeff Sessions because Jeff Sessions will fight voter fraud as attorney general.
The activists opposing Sessions also oppose any effort to minimize criminal behavior in American elections. Never mind that there are over four million invalid voter registrations . Never mind that we have a Justice Department that deliberately stopped enforcing laws to prevent this illegal bloating of voter rolls.
Opposing steps to stop criminal behavior in elections has tragically become the new “civil rights” agenda. It is the agenda of the Sessions opponents.
If the election of Donald Trump demonstrated anything, it showed that mainstream Americans wanted to restore treasured American institutions like the rule of law, and the tradition of collective disdain toward the criminal and lawless.
But so-called civil rights groups are slow to catch on. That’s why the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights has taken the lead in fighting against Sessions.
Don’t be fooled by their name and pedigree. Groups like the Leadership Conference and the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP are no longer about civil rights. They are about enforcing an orthodoxy of identity politics. Identity politics helps Democrats win elections. The only way Hillary had a hope to win the White House was to ride intense racial polarization among black and Hispanic voters.
The groups opposing Jeff Sessions now exist to divide Americans along the skin-color lines -- precisely the same thing Martin Luther King, Jr. and Frederick Douglass fought. It’s the same evil the soldiers who died in Selma and on the dunes of Fort Wagner fought.
The opponents of Jeff Sessions are busy transforming what "civil rights" means. Genuine equality of opportunity is out of style. That’s so 1965. They want a Justice Department chasing “unconscious bias” and fighting disparate racial impacts. They certainly don’t want the Justice Department doing anything about the lawlessness and illegal voting affecting American elections.
They also want to cash out.
Leading the opposition to Jeff Sessions is Nancy Zirkin from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. The activists at the Leadership Conference live large on the struggle: the most recent IRS form 990s from this organization shows that President Wade Henderson raked in $360,080 in compensation. But that’s just the start. Seven other staffers -- including chief Sessions foe Zirkin -- enjoyed average compensation packages from this “charity” opposing Sessions of $222,576.
Nancy Zirkin (L) and Wade Henderson (R) of the Leadership Conference The civil rights industry has become very lucrative. In 1961, Freedom Rider volunteers boarded buses to oppose the constitutionally and morally offensive system of racial segregation. Today, Nancy Zirkin and her allies seek to undo their noble work by again dividing Americans based on skin color -- for a quarter million dollars a year.
But it’s not just Zirkin’s organization opposing Sessions. A rogue’s gallery of fringe and Soros-funded groups are astroturfing Sessions' opposition. Crackpot efforts like “ Preventing Violations and Advancing Rights in Communities Affected by Extractive Industries ” by the “Global Justice Clinic” are in the anti-Sessions game. So is “Demand Progress” -- an organization with a clenched red fist as a logo.
At least they’re honest.
Just as in 1986, expect discredited Justice Department Civil Rights Division lawyers to take the stand against Jeff Sessions.
Back then, Gerry Hebert and Paul Hancock spoke against Sessions. They claimed he said something racially insensitive when they worked together on a case when Sessions was U.S. attorney.
Herbert has since been admonished by a federal court for exaggerating claims of intentional racial discrimination in a Justice Department lawsuit he brought.
Both Hancock and Hebert also had to retract portions of their testimony in the 1986 Session nomination because it was found to be inaccurate. Hebert has fought against efforts to prevent voter fraud, and his opposition to Sessions is part of that continuing game.
Gerry Hebert Also writing frightening accounts of a Department of Justice under Jeff Sessions is Sam Bagenstos. His fact-optional piece at the far left American Prospect shivers that Sessions will actually enforce federal laws as Congress passed them -- such as trimming ineligible voters from voter rolls. (Bagenstos also mentions my “agenda to subvert the historic work of the division,” when in reality, during my time at the DOJ, my "agenda" saw me personally bring more Section 2 and minority-language cases than the entire Obama Justice Department did in eight years.)
Bagenstos, naturally, is and always has been a professor except for temporary stints in government. Bagenstos once led opposition at DOJ to the release of the Amazon Kindle because it couldn’t be used by the blind.
As Hans von Spakovsky wrote at National Review, Bagenstos is responsible for this laugher:
Bagenstos recently appeared in federal court in New York, arguing against a motion to dismiss one of the Division’s lawsuits. The Division’s complaint was so badly written under Bagenstos’s supervision that the judge at one point compared the government’s pleading to that of a pro se litigant, which is as close as a federal judge can come to calling you incompetent.
It sounds like he’s right where he belongs -- in the academy.
Sam Bagenstos The Sessions hearings will give America a chance to see what has become of the civil rights movement. They’ll witness how they attack good people from well-paid perches inside a swarm of 501(c)(3) groups, groups that probably never suffered IRS scrutiny in the last eight years. They’ll see that when good men like Jeff Sessions use the law to fight lawlessness, it invites the wrath of a once-noble movement.
Simple, because he is an honest man and believes in the rule of law.
Sessions is going to kick their azzes - you can take that to the bank. He has been railing about government corruption his whole career and these idiots are doing nothing more than motivating him. They will not stop him despite all the noise in the media and spouting off.
He should start full-bore with the Clinton Foundation and Harry Reid’s “situation.” After that, there will be crickets from the left and a bunch of puckered hindquarters in the halls of corruption.
Book it.
Amen...It absolutely is as simple as that, Senator Sessions is an honest man and believes in the rule of law.
Dogs in various packs are already pre-yelping, they know they’re about to get the rock; Trump in Mobile the other day said ‘he wouldn’t want to be those guys’ once Jeff sinks his teeth in them. The context was Senators who took bribes ‘or something else’ to assist in off-shoring our jobs.
Did the Left really think their lawless state was going to continue to fly?
YUP!
Bump!
And the deeper down the rabbit hole a Sessions DOJ gets, that yelping is going to get worse. The "smart ones" will run for cover before it gets that far.
Why did Lynch jump up and start confessing her sins? Is that a recent trend with RATS that I missed?
Hard to say.
Maybe she knows she went so far over the line she has to say she is pained over it and thinks some will believe her. :)
She should plead that BJ saw her plane and helpfully popped in to tell her the name of his wife’s cankles Dr.
“Why They Oppose Jeff Sessions as Attorney General”
Because he looks like Arte Johnson?
The law is about to be in Session(s).
Beware the crook, whose goose is certain to be cooked.
Yep, and how sweet it is that we’re going to have an honest AG running an honest DOJ.
These nefarious groups are a very good example of the reasons that the founders sought to limit and check power. But of course, over the years, those protections have been whittled down by uber-liberals and progressives, loopholes big enough drive army tanks through.
Corruption doesn’t even begin to cover it---wealthy donors and even foreign powers – can just write checks, contribute to the Clinton Foundation, Hillary's campaign – and just buy a law or a foreign policy in return. In return, the Hillary team and their fellow Democrats trashed our constitutional system of choosing our presidents with a vengeance.
There's a list of people who have aided and abetted the overthrow of the US govt: the Obamas, the Clintons: Podesta, Obama, Huma, Cheryl Mills, Holder, Lynch, Comey, Koskinen, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, both NY and Chicago mayors DeBlasio and Rahm Emanuel.....the groups listed above......just to name the top end of the list.
They raise lots of money .....overthrowing the US govt does have money-making potential.
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It's time to close down these groups----pull their fund-raising tax-status...and prosecute everyone who signs on and contributes money to the overthrow of the US govt.
bkmk
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