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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Enough with the BS!
Sessions and his advocates should counter any accusations of racism by demanding clarification and examples.
Then after pointing out how bogus this is, demonstrate their hypocrisy by illustrating what a racist pig 0bama always has been and how they have all said absolutely nothing.
Then listen to the crickets.
We just had 2 racist attorney generals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chkAASced_0
Cory Booker has good reason to oppose Sessions. He’s got a ton of criminal allegations from his time as Mayor of Newark that have never been addressed.
To any who mightn't have tried it, not giving even a half a damn can be quite liberating.
If we don't play along, they don't score.
Great find!
But Robert “Sheets” Byrd was okay wif dem.
The senate dims have found a "house-boy" to do their dirty work. What a bunch of skunk low-lifes.
BOOKER
Hmm. That name has a nice ring to it: BOOK HER. LOCK HER UP. No wonder he wasn’t HILLARY’S VP pick.
There are also a large number of black pastors in Washington DC today to support Senator Sessions.
Alabama Representative Martha Roby posted several photos on Facebook on Sunday showing Sessions hand-in-hand with Lewis and flanked by several members of the Congressional Black Caucus as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
If Cory Booker has any brains at all, which I seriousl question...he will put his tail between his legs...shut his mouth and vote to confirm Jeff Sessions for Attorney General...today!!! If not.....his brief senate career is over!!i
Just like the villagers and the boy who cried, “WOLF!” too many times, people have gotten skeptical...................
FOX is carrying it
Cory Booker is running for President in 2020.
Expect him to pop up constantly in the next 3 years.
And then John Lewis stabs him in the back? Wow. I’ll follow Tim Scott on this one.
What legal standing does Booker have to testify?
All the “libs” now have to offer is hate and venom. They have become exactly what they once claimed to despise! #RustyIrony!
“I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal”.
New Jersey senator?
Seems to me that the liberals of New Jersey might just elect a rock if it had a “D” next to its name.
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