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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Tradition is dead, change all votes to 50(include sc) and stop playing with these quislings
So Senatorial Comity and Courtesy joins the filibuster on the ash heap.
In the long run, probably a good thing.
How about before you testify, come on Tucker’s show and explain your case? I’ll listen.
I don’t give two dead flies over what shit bird Cory
Booger has to say. On the other hand I would like to
know Senator Tim Scott’s opinion on the matter of the
appointment of Senator Sessions to Attorney General.
The Democrats, of course, will be crying about "how unfair it is" that all of Trump's nominees will only need 51 votes to be confirmed. The Republicans should get into the habit of calling this change in procedure the "Harry Reid Rule." They need to remind everyone at every possible opportunity that it was Harry Reid who made this possible.
Booker has no personal knowledge, just his own repetition of false claims that the historic facts have put to rest. But for the Leftist/Liberal/Progressives, like Booker, it is the severity of the charge that counts, not the veracity of the evidence. (thanks Rush for coining that term).
But, for his own political career, Booker would rather falsely slander a fellow senator than tell the truth.
That donkeyass said Sessions is a danger to this country ...I just about threw up my breakfast and thought where the hell has he been while Obama gives 150 billion to Iran and uranium so that they can bomb the hell out of America! I hate those at F’ers!!!!
The DIMs are insufferable. Crush these useless anti-American dregs as they attempt to racially divide and otherwise disrupt a civil society. What useless morons and racists.
we all need to go to the mattresses to make it so.
i will not sleep with anyone to make this happen, but i would gladly wrestle and pin anybody to the mat to do so...
taking them to the mat is the way to go...
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Back when I lived in NJ I had a lot of respect for Cory Booker. This is just sad. I wonder if he’s merely kowtowing to pressure groups or sincerely thinks Sessions is a racist. Either way, my respect for Booker is gone. Are there any honest, courageous Democrats in the Senate?
No, Sen. Booker - it is your policies and beliefs that are a danger to our nation - yours and most of New Jersey’s........your racist comments will fail to derail a man as honorable as Sen. Sessions........
Corey is happy that he was promoted from field hand to Democrat house servant.
Life on the Democrat plantation rolls on and on without those servants and field hands understanding the motives of their masters.
Jeff Sessions is without a doubt one of the few honorable men in the Senate.
Rep John Lewis (D-AL) is also supposed to testify against Sessions, which really burns my cookies. Sessions held hands with Lewis to cross the bridge in Selma on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in 2015. Alabama Rep Martha Roby posted the pics on her FB page.
Booker is very much like the average Muslim. He knows nothing about anything until the imams tell him what to know.
Democrat blacks, like the entire ‘party’, are utterly useless to their people and to this republic.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Hey Cory, good luck, you just relegated yourself to the back bench. Chuck Schumer doesn't like anyone stealing TV time from him. Not even McCain or Graham will want to reach across the aisle with you.
Listening to Diane Feinstein wax on with the age old Dem fears to support their groups and deny Sessions...
So glad that Donald was elected and not hilly as we surely would have gone over the edge.
Thanks to Obama and Sharpton’s ilk, Corey is now relegated to the back of the bus and gains made by his race have been moved back to 1950.
If only the welfare would make that move.
Do you know if anyone has started a thread for the hearings? I couldn’t find one.
I think I saw on a thread that some FReeper had posted that Ivanka Trump supported this idiot Booker. I hope that is not true. This Obummer wannabe deserves nothing but ridicule.
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