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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCory Booker to testify against fellow senator Sessions in unprecedented move-1st time senate history
This would be the first time in Senate history that a sitting senator will testify against another sitting senator for a Cabinet post during a confirmation.
"I do not take lightly the decision to testify against a Senate colleague," Booker said. "But the immense powers of the attorney general combined with the deeply troubling views of this nominee is a call to conscience."
Sessions' confirmation hearings are expected to raise additional questions on old allegations of racism from his past. When Sessions was 39-year-old US attorney in Alabama, he was denied a federal judgeship because the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony during hearings in March and May 1986 that Sessions had made racist remarks and called the NAACP and ACLU "un-American."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/09/politics/cory-booker-jeff-sessions-confirmation-hearing/index.html
Great news! Sessions is horrible and would break an already broken system.
spanone
(135,891 posts)bold choice.
Rex
(65,616 posts)While the GOP stinks to high heaven, Dems need to take the initiative.
burrowowl
(17,653 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Sessions is the worst of a sorry bunch of nominees.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)onecaliberal
(32,916 posts)Who will join him?
dhill926
(16,370 posts)hope he eviscerates him...
sheshe2
(83,940 posts)Be relentless. Take him down.
Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)He made racist comments? He's a republican, what did you expect? If you expect that to sink him, then you haven't been paying attention.
brush
(53,922 posts)we have to stand up to them when and wherever we can.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Dems need to follow Senator Booker's example and FIGHT!
SHRED
(28,136 posts)DFW
(54,447 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)brer cat
(24,621 posts)That racist pig shouldn't get within a mile of AG.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)I wanted you for VP. Great convention speech! Go!!!!
cilla4progress
(24,782 posts)Normalizing this. Always liked him.
UTUSN
(70,755 posts)MontanaMama
(23,344 posts)For you can count on them going low.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,345 posts)I'm wondering if he has some dirt on the slimeball from working with him?
spanone
(135,891 posts)rep. John Lewis will be testifying too
benld74
(9,911 posts)flamingdem
(39,332 posts)Bravo
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Mr. Booker will be prepared.
SunSeeker
(51,740 posts)iluvtennis
(19,880 posts)oasis
(49,426 posts)If we revise the famous scene from "A Few Good Men".
Sessions:"You're goddam right I said the N word".
Cha
(297,774 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,342 posts)Sen. Booker's fearlessness
He may not be the environmentalist I'd like, but he looks at all sides
No lightweight for sure
BlueStateBlue
(517 posts)I just emailed him to express my support and applaud his leadership. I urge others from NJ to do the same. We need to support positive actions.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)he will be confirmed.....his racist, prosecutorial misconduct will"be forgiven". Guaranteed. ameriKKKa is headed for the pits of hell.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)GO CORY!!!
rurallib
(62,460 posts)let's hope this makes others want t o stand up.
CrispyQ
(36,533 posts)Loki
(3,825 posts)I want to be sure not to miss this.
Nitram
(22,900 posts)orleans
(34,079 posts)Skittles
(153,212 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Thank you, Senator Booker!
BlueWI
(1,736 posts)Stand up and tell the truth. Challenge the good ol' boys wherever they are!!
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)To know he is a racist. Sessions already has a long track record to prove that
Ghost OF Trotsky
(61 posts)as the 'nuclear option' in going to.