Warren: Sessions leading Justice Dept in 'bigotry-fueled attack' on immigrants
Source: the hill
By Jordain Carney - 02/07/18 06:37 PM EST
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) ripped Attorney General Jeff Sessions from the Senate floor on Wednesday, a year after Republicans voted to censure her over remarks about the then-senator.
"On Jeff Sessions's watch, the Justice Department has promoted voter suppression. On his watch, the Justice Department has endorsed discrimination. ... And on his watch, the Justice Department has led an all-out bigotry-fueled attack on immigrants and refugees," Warren said from the Senate floor.
Warren shot into the spotlight last year after Senate Republicans voted to temporarily block her from speaking from the floor, citing the Senate's rules against impugning the character of a fellow senator.
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Warren also knocked Sessions — "a man deemed too racist to hold a federal court judgeship in 1986" — over his record on voting rights, noting he had "embraced President Trump's make-believe, fact-free conspiracy theories around voter fraud."
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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/372839-warren-sessions-leading-justice-dept-in-bigotry-fueled-attack-on-immigrants
It makes me sick to think of all the damage Sessions has done to the US!
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