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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Nov 18, 2016, 01:01 PM Nov 2016

NAACP Condemns Trump's Choice Of Jeff Sessions For Attorney General

Source: Talking Points Memo

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People condemned President-elect Donald Trump’s planned nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as attorney general.

“Sen. Sessions as AG is deeply troubling, and supports an old, ugly history where Civil Rights were not regarded as core American values,” the group tweeted Friday morning, not long after the Trump transition team confirmed the Sessions selection.

Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986 but was not confirmed after attention turned to racist comments Sessions allegedly made and a poor record on civil rights as a U.S. attorney in Alabama. He also reportedly called the NAACP “communist-inspired” and “un-American,” according to the Associated Press.

"Mr. Sessions is a throwback to a shameful era, which I know both black and white Americans thought was in our past," Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) said at the time. "It is inconceivable to me that a person of this attitude is qualified to be a U.S. attorney, let alone a U.S. federal judge."

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NAACP Condemns Trump's Choice Of Jeff Sessions For Attorney General (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2016 OP

The tRumpsters will consider this a victory, not anything to be shamed over. MANative Nov 2016 #1

this is the first of many chances for Democrats to redeem themselves by obstructing yurbud Nov 2016 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author INdemo Nov 2016 #7

You might be mis-remembering. Isn't Sessions from Alabama and Cleland from Georgia? hedda_foil Nov 2016 #8

Yes but he was in on the remarks about Cleland calling his INdemo Nov 2016 #13

UGhh Kali_Klik Nov 2016 #11

So, safeinOhio Nov 2016 #3

They, tRump and associates.... FarPoint Nov 2016 #4

For the Trumpsters, Sessions' racism is a feature, not a bug. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2016 #5

Oh yeah. Sure is. flying_wahini Nov 2016 #12

Christ his own party rejected his nomination for federal judge 30 years ago Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2016 #6

racism is more socially acceptable now than it was under Reagan. geek tragedy Nov 2016 #14

K&R Solly Mack Nov 2016 #9

This is Trump's way of exacting revenge PlanetBev Nov 2016 #10

MANative

(4,112 posts)

1. The tRumpsters will consider this a victory, not anything to be shamed over.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 01:04 PM

Nov 2016

yurbud

(39,405 posts)

2. this is the first of many chances for Democrats to redeem themselves by obstructing

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 01:06 PM

Nov 2016

Response to yurbud (Reply #2)

INdemo This message was self-deleted by its author.

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)

8. You might be mis-remembering. Isn't Sessions from Alabama and Cleland from Georgia?

Reply to INdemo (Reply #7)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 03:20 PM

Nov 2016

Wasn't Saxby Chambliss the repulsive guy who likened Cleland to Ben Laden and won his Senate seat?

INdemo

(6,994 posts)

13. Yes but he was in on the remarks about Cleland calling his

Reply to hedda_foil (Reply #8)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 06:17 PM

Nov 2016

purple heart status phony correct?
sorry for the mix up but he is still an ass hole..
and still all racist SOB

Kali_Klik

(6 posts)

11. UGhh

Reply to yurbud (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 03:39 PM

Nov 2016

Problem is no confirmation hearing i believe.

safeinOhio

(32,714 posts)

3. So,

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 01:15 PM

Nov 2016

What the hell do you have to lose?

FarPoint

(12,430 posts)

4. They, tRump and associates....

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 01:17 PM

Nov 2016

They could care less what the NAACP has to say....in fact, the choice of Sessions probably was selected because he will not care about civil rights.... someone that will slam the door on the NAACP, SCLC...etc....

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,829 posts)

5. For the Trumpsters, Sessions' racism is a feature, not a bug.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 01:29 PM

Nov 2016

flying_wahini

(6,641 posts)

12. Oh yeah. Sure is.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 03:42 PM

Nov 2016

N/t

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,170 posts)

6. Christ his own party rejected his nomination for federal judge 30 years ago

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 02:16 PM

Nov 2016

Trump has to be that special kind of stupid

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

14. racism is more socially acceptable now than it was under Reagan.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Reply #6)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 06:41 PM

Nov 2016

He'll pass with unanimous Republican support and a few Democratic votes (e.g. Joe Manchin)

Solly Mack

(90,780 posts)

9. K&R

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 03:21 PM

Nov 2016

PlanetBev

(4,104 posts)

10. This is Trump's way of exacting revenge

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Nov 18, 2016, 03:36 PM

Nov 2016

Appointing this guy is a thumb in the eye of all those who had the unmitigated temerity to oppose him.

Trump is a rat-fucker of historic proportions.

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