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"Deeply Concerned" Schumer To Vote Against Sessions, Fears For "Immigrant, Gay, Disabled
Zero Hedge ^
| 01/12/2017
Posted on 01/12/2017 9:52:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In a tweet-tempest this morning, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has confirmed he opposes Sen. Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to serve as attorney general.
As The Hill reports, Sessions has faced backlash over his record on civil rights since his nomination and throughout his Senate confirmation hearings this week.
The Senate in 1986 opposed appointing Sessions to a federal judgeship in part because of disparaging remarks he allegedly made about the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He strongly denied the accusations back then and again this week.
Critics also point to his prosecution of black voting rights activists for voter fraud and other civil rights concerns.
Schumer's dissent is not entirely surprising and will likely not be the last.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; gays; immigration; jeffsessions; schmuck; schumer; trumpag; trumpcabinet; trumptransition
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Schumer, Booker, Feinstein, Warren and Sanders will vote 'No' on Sessions ( as will the other NY senator, Gillebrand who simply follows Schumer's lead ).
Who else will you bet will vote similarly?
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:53:40 AM PST
by
delete306
To: SeekAndFind
It’ll be a strictly partisan vote.
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:54:07 AM PST
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: SeekAndFind
Schumer needs to check his uber White, Liberal Privilege.
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:54:14 AM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:55:23 AM PST
by
RaginRak
To: SeekAndFind
The interests of gay, disabled, minority immigrants have been controlling public policy for eight years now. Its time to worry about the interests of American citizens.
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:55:43 AM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
To: SeekAndFind
Don’t we have the majority ? Do we care what they do ? I’m not understanding why we even talk to em ..... “Pass it so we can find out whats in it” .... doom on em.
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:55:58 AM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: Bogey78O
That’s my take on it.
Now... which party will McStain, Graham, and Rubio vote with?
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:56:34 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(John McStain. The friend of those who hate our nation.)
To: SeekAndFind
Anti-Christian!!! You ALL can vote against him....he’ll still get in.
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:56:55 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: SeekAndFind
Yet they all voted “yes” on bigots Holder and Lynch
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:57:03 AM PST
by
A_Former_Democrat
("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
To: SeekAndFind
So Head Clown will vote against Sessions.
No surprise here. He is from the most liberal state in the Union.
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:57:30 AM PST
by
tennmountainman
("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:57:37 AM PST
by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: SeekAndFind
Because, you know, Schumer has lodged so many complaints against Sessions while they were both senators. </s>
And where were his concerns about Zero’s candidates? Oh yeah, it doesn’t count when a demorat is involved.
Friggin’ partisan assclown being his usual predictable self.
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:57:44 AM PST
by
Two Kids' Dad
(((( More and More Winning! ))))
To: SeekAndFind
Just heard on Rush.. McCain and Rubio will vote NO on Tillerson...I once thought that Rubio had promise... not so now
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:58:03 AM PST
by
Robe
(A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: SeekAndFind
Oh so the Lord of Flatbush is worried about minorities. How thoughtful.
To: Bogey78O
Why would it be strictly partisan? Do you mean there are no Democrats who would like to maintain good relations with the White House by voting to approve a Trump cabinet nominee?
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posted on
01/12/2017 9:59:45 AM PST
by
Genoa
(Luke 12:2)
To: SeekAndFind
The AG must wake up each day ensuring rights of all Americans are protected.
Justice must be blind. Any Attorney General who looks at irrelevant trivia such as the criminal's or victim's race, age, sexuality, or other nonsense is fatally flawed.
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posted on
01/12/2017 10:00:15 AM PST
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: Squantos
Republican majorities are useless but in this case yea they’ll all vote for him. Trump should pull him now and say he has to see what happens with his SOS first because he thought about them as a team
To: SeekAndFind
Schumer deeply concerned? He means deeply disturbed. Let the criminal indictments begin!
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posted on
01/12/2017 10:00:35 AM PST
by
WKUHilltopper
(WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
To: SeekAndFind
Funny, Sessions gave the “correct” answer on the “settle law” of the courts, and that still wasn’t good enough?
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posted on
01/12/2017 10:00:39 AM PST
by
fwdude
(Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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