Boy oh Boy,
Jeffrey Sessions stepped out of the box today to tell Americans that he will vote against Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Justice.
Wow, this guy is the new moral standard for the Republican party?
This pompus idiot stood on FOX CABLE today to make his announcement as if he has the moral character to do so.
For those of you who dont know who he is other than a republican senator, Jeff Sessions was nominated by Pres. Ronald Reagan for a Federal Judgeship in 1986.
He was not confirmed by the senate because of his "racist", beliefs and
"racists" comments he made over several years prior.
He once said the KU Klux Klan were'nt all that bad until he found out some were smoking marijuana.
He critizised "white" lawyers for working on discrimination cases as " a disgrace to their race".
Comments like these and many others were the reason he was turned down for the Federal bench, NOW he wants to be the moral standard for Sonia Sotomayor??
What a joke, as usual. See if FAUX news reports this during their fair and balanced reporting. LOL LOL LOL
Senator Who Praised Segregationist Judges Will Lead Opposition To Obama Nominees
By Brian Beutler - May 4, 2009, 12:43PM
As I noted below, it looks like Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) will be, at least for a time, the ranking member on the Judiciary Committee. That's an interesting role for a man with Sessions'...history. In a 2002 New Republic article, Sarah Wildman detailed the Alabama senator's rise through the ranks of politics in Alabama and in Republican Washington.
Sessions first appeared on the scene in 1986 D.C. when President Ronald Reagan nominated him to serve on the U.S. District Court in Alabama. At the time, the Judiciary Committee was controlled by Republicans, but his appointment nonetheless went absolutely nowhere--a fact that may have had a thing or two to do with stories like this:
As Wildman wrote, "it has been on judicial nominees that Sessions has really made a name for himself."
Jeffrey Sessions stepped out of the box today to tell Americans that he will vote against Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Justice.
Wow, this guy is the new moral standard for the Republican party?
This pompus idiot stood on FOX CABLE today to make his announcement as if he has the moral character to do so.
For those of you who dont know who he is other than a republican senator, Jeff Sessions was nominated by Pres. Ronald Reagan for a Federal Judgeship in 1986.
He was not confirmed by the senate because of his "racist", beliefs and
"racists" comments he made over several years prior.
He once said the KU Klux Klan were'nt all that bad until he found out some were smoking marijuana.
He critizised "white" lawyers for working on discrimination cases as " a disgrace to their race".
Comments like these and many others were the reason he was turned down for the Federal bench, NOW he wants to be the moral standard for Sonia Sotomayor??
What a joke, as usual. See if FAUX news reports this during their fair and balanced reporting. LOL LOL LOL
Senator Who Praised Segregationist Judges Will Lead Opposition To Obama Nominees
By Brian Beutler - May 4, 2009, 12:43PM
Sessions first appeared on the scene in 1986 D.C. when President Ronald Reagan nominated him to serve on the U.S. District Court in Alabama. At the time, the Judiciary Committee was controlled by Republicans, but his appointment nonetheless went absolutely nowhere--a fact that may have had a thing or two to do with stories like this:
Senate Democrats tracked down a career Justice Department employee named J. Gerald Hebert, who testified, albeit reluctantly, that in a conversation between the two men Sessions had labeled the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU ) "un-American" and "Communist-inspired." Hebert said Sessions had claimed these groups "forced civil rights down the throats of people." In his confirmation hearings, Sessions sealed his own fate by saying such groups could be construed as "un-American" when "they involve themselves in promoting un-American positions" in foreign policy. Hebert testified that the young lawyer tended to "pop off" on such topics regularly, noting that Sessions had called a white civil rights lawyer a "disgrace to his race" for litigating voting rights cases. Sessions acknowledged making many of the statements attributed to him but claimed that most of the time he had been joking, saying he was sometimes "loose with [his] tongue." He further admitted to calling the Voting Rights Act of 1965 a "piece of intrusive legislation," a phrase he stood behind even in his confirmation hearings.... Another damaging witness--a black former assistant U.S. Attorney in Alabama named Thomas Figures--testified that, during a 1981 murder investigation involving the Ku Klux Klan, 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." Sessions claimed the comment was clearly said in jest. Figures didn't see it that way. Sessions, he said, had called him "boy" and, after overhearing him chastise a secretary, warned him to "be careful what you say to white folks." Figures echoed Hebert's claims, saying he too had heard Sessions call various civil rights organizations, including the National Council of Churches and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, "un-American." Sessions denied the accusations but again admitted to frequently joking in an off-color sort of way. In his defense, he said he was not a racist, pointing out that his children went to integrated schools and that he had shared a hotel room with a black attorney several times.
The committee ultimately voted 10-8 against reporting his nomination on to the floor. In a perverse form of poetic justice, Sessions will soon be that committee's most powerful Republican. And in that position, he'll no doubt be leading the charge (such as it is) against whomever President Obama nominates to the Supreme Court--or any court, really. Having been given the Robert Bork treatment in the past, it's hard to imagine Sessions treating Obama's picks all that genially.
As Wildman wrote, "it has been on judicial nominees that Sessions has really made a name for himself."
When Sessions grabbed Heflin's Senate seat in 1996, he also nabbed a spot on the Judiciary Committee. Serving on the committee alongside some of the senators who had dismissed him 16 years earlier, Sessions has become a cheerleader for the Bush administration's judicial picks, defending such dubious nominees as Charles Pickering, who in 1959 wrote a paper defending Mississippi's anti-miscegenation law, and Judge Dennis Shedd, who dismissed nearly every fair-employment civil rights case brought before him as a federal district court judge. Sessions called Pickering "a leader for racial harmony" and a "courageous," "quality individual" who was being used as a "political pawn." Regarding Shedd, he pooh-poohed the criticism, announcing that the judge "should have been commended for the rulings he has made," not chastised.
