AL Senator Jeff Sessions endorses Donald Trump

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reason10 said:
That's a fucking lie.
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No ... no it's not...
Sessions, it should be noted, was nominated by Reagan in 1985 to a federal judgeship, but was dinged by the Senate. Sessions was a critic of the Voting Rights Act. He had called the NAACP and the ACLU “un-American” and “Communist-inspired” groups that “forced civil rights down the throats of people.” In addition, as a U.S. attorney in Alabama, he reportedly called a Black assistant U.S. attorney “boy”, and told him to “be careful what you say to white folks.” As a federal prosecutor, Sessions engaged in a voter-fraud witch-hunt against three Black civil rights workers, including a former aide to Dr. King. Moreover, during a 1981 KKK murder investigation, Sessions was heard by several colleagues commenting that he “used to think they [the Klan] were OK” until he found out some of them were “pot smokers.”

As a senator, Sessions voted against expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. Based on his voting record, he has a 0% rating from the Human Rights Campaign (he is anti-gay rights), a 7% rating from the NAACP (he is anti-affirmative action), and a 20% rating from the ACLU (he is anti-civil rights). And this is the person the Republicans have entrusted in a position of leadership in this important committee in the Senate. It speaks volumes about the GOP and the statement they are making here, particularly when one considers Sessions’ association with anti-immigration, White nationalist groups.

A lawmaker with a solid anti-immigration record, Sessions is criticized by immigrants’ rights groups for his anti-immigration rhetoric, and for his close associations with three organizations: the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has designated FAIR as a hate group, notes that all of these organizations “were founded and funded by John Tanton, a retired Michigan ophthalmologist who operates a racist publishing company and has written that to maintain American culture, ‘a European-American majority’ is required.” He has published writings by John Vinson, head of Tanton’s American Immigration Control Foundation, and a devout White supremacist. Vinson has called for the secession of the former Confederate states in order to racially and economically protect Whites.

Tanton has been a driving force in the White nationalist and anti-immigration movements for years. His organizations and associates have affiliations with skinheads, neo-Nazis, and the Council of Conservative Citizens, the modern-day reincarnation of the White Citizens’ Councils, the “white-collar Klan” of the Jim Crow era. And with financial support from the pro-eugenics Pioneer Fund – also designated a hate group whose members believe that Black people have smaller brains and lower intelligence than Whites – Tanton has been able to infiltrate, and unfortunately shape, the mainstream dialogue on immigration reform. And sadly, the mainstream media have helped to legitimize his organizations.



Senator Sessions often quotes Tanton’s groups and their sham reports, appears at their press conferences, and has received recognition and campaign contributions from them. And this individual will be sitting in judgment of nominees to the federal bench, including African Americans, Latinos and other judges of color? In recent years, the Republican Party has been reduced to a regional extremist party – all-White, Christian fundamentalist, uneducated and racist. And apparently, on judicial and criminal justice matters, Sessions is their standard bearer, the end product of a thorough barrel-scraping process. This is not surprising, but one must wonder what’s really going on here.

https://www.laprogressive.com/alabama-senator-linked-to-white-supremacists/
 
I know Sessions and a bit about Alabama Politics.

He might not be a bigot himself, but to be Senator from Alabama he has to throw shade in that direction. Trump is also throwing shade in that direction, it makes them a perfect fit. I have a family friend who considered running for Alabama Senate, he ultimately decided against it because he felt it was not an honorable position because of what you had to do to get the job. He used to say, maybe if I lived in Maryland or Nebraska, but not Alabama.
 
Jarod said:
I know Sessions and a bit about Alabama Politics.

He might not be a bigot himself, but to be Senator from Alabama he has to throw shade in that direction. Trump is also throwing shade in that direction, it makes them a perfect fit. I have a family friend who considered running for Alabama Senate, he ultimately decided against it because he felt it was not an honorable position because of what you had to do to get the job. He used to say, maybe if I lived in Maryland or Nebraska, but not Alabama.
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So basically you are being a racist in judging the entire state of Alabama as being bigoted?

I'm not surprised. You're a liberal Democrat. ALL liberal Democrats are racists.

Of course, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is not a racist either.

Nobody connected with Trump is a racist.

But all his critics are.
 
reason10 said:
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Like hell it's a lie. Session publically stated his admiration for the KKK in front of other U.S. attorneys. He stated to DoJ lawyers that the ACLU and NAACP were un-American and Communist inspired because they forced civil rights down peoples throats. He once called a black Assistant U.S. attorney "Boy" and told him to "...be careful what you say to white folk.".
 
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