Posted on 01/10/2017 9:37:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On Monday, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker announced that he will break longstanding Senate tradition on Wednesday by testifying against his colleague, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, during Session's confirmation hearing for U.S. attorney general.
"Concretely, I'm breaking a pretty long Senate tradition by actually being a sitting senator testifying against another sitting senator," Booker told MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Monday. "Please, understand. I think these are extraordinary times and they call for extraordinary measures."
Booker emphasized, "I'll be testifying against my current colleague."
Booker's move is believed to be the first time that a sitting senator has testified against a colleague during a cabinet nomination hearing.
"There's a whole spectrum of things that Jeff Session's own words represent a real threat to vulnerable populations in this country, and that is something that I feel necessary to do everything that I can to speak against," Booker declared.
"We've seen already in this country that we are at a strike point around issues of policing, around issues of civil rights, around issues of gay and lesbian equality within our country," Booker argued, referencing in turn the "Black Lives Matter" movement and the movement for LGBT "rights." Booker argued that Sessions stood against each of these movements. "He has a posture and a positioning that I think represent a real danger to our country.
The New Jersey senator also warned that, if Sessions were to become attorney general, the Trump administration might crack down on marijuana legalization in the states. "Please understand that every state that has medical marijuana or is looking to legalize is in violation of federal law," Booker said. "The Obama administration chose not to enforce that, and the next administration could change their position and literally drag people to federal court who are participating in those state legal activities."
As a former U.S. attorney, Sessions has taken strongly conservative stances on criminal justice issues and immigration.
Booker, who may have his eye on a 2020 presidential bid, emphasized the unprecedented nature of this move.
The DNC is the scumbag of America.
Demmocrats are what is inside that scumbag.
But maybe not all democrats.
There might be one or two exceptions in the entire nation.
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These are extraordinary times, and all Democrat senators are extraordinarily malevolent.
We need a new “nuclear option.”
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Clue Phone for Mr. Booker: Sen. Sessions is not your “colleague”.
Booker = Dem. Translation: attention-seeking moron, and irrelevant.
A black crook that takes it up the butt, calling a good man a racist.
Delightful. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were among his donors.
2. Christie's dismal performance in the 2016 GOP primaries shows how little traction a candidate from New Jersey has in a nationwide race. Nobody takes this state seriously, which is why there hasn't been anyone from New Jersey in a position of substance in Washington (president, vice president, House speaker, Senate majority leader, etc.) since the automobile was invented.
Yes they are Cory. You and your ilk are losing power. Hopefully permanently.
It seems like every time a demorat sets a precedent by misbehaving and breaking tradition it comes back to bite them in the behind. The Harry Reid nuclear option against the filibuster is going to be used against them soon. I’m sure Cory Booker’s breaking with the long-standing tradition will come back to haunt the dems (and maybe Booker himself) at a later date.
He’s living by the sword... for now.
Cory Booker, like POTUS, Obama has had his fifteen minutes of fame. He and Obama are so “yesterday” it is a simple laughing matter!!! They do not come much dumber then this “Obamabot Buffoon”!!!
He will just be testifying from a different chair in the room. These folks are sooo full of themselves.
The only one is Woodrow Wilson (governor), whose non-flattering but open mission was to rip up the US Constitution
Another reason we dodged a bullet in 2016 - this time no Sinator would sign on with any Electoral College objection; next time, some ‘rat will want to get historical. Surprised Booker didn’t do so last week.
Haven’t heard that word or seen it in a while :)
Are you of Italian background too?
Ziggin and zaggin
Right — and Wilson wasn’t even from New Jersey originally. He was born in Virginia and lived in the South most of his life.
Booker is your typical scumbag libtard.... walking around with the stench of crime, corruption and failed /do nothng / accomplish nothing resume.... but of course he is balck and the libtards love him... why? Murder, violent crime, unemployment, and taxes all rose dramatically under his stewardship. hey he’s a libtard, what did you expect...
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.
Booker, to Sessions: Nothing personal; it’s just business. I want to be president in 2020, and you need to lay down for me.
Probably so . . . but by breaking precedent and Senate comity he certainly is asking for it.
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