Jeff Sessions is a racist!!

[Dschrute3]

Nah, he's not. Just thought i'd get this post out of the way before all the Trump-Hater nutters start flooding the forum with it. You know the numerous repetitive 'Sessions is a Racist!' posts are coming. Thought i'd provide a merge-point. Ok, let the loony Race-Baiting begin!...

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Anyone a degree right of center is a racist...so sayeth a left loon.

 

[PeterGriffin]

JEFF SESSIONS IS A RACIST!!

Republican Senate, 1986, refusing to confirm Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for his demonstrated problems with race.

 

[PeterGriffin]

In October, as part of the investigation and before the general election, Sessions’s office convened a federal grand jury more than 160 miles south, in Mobile, where the jury pool included more white people. Surrounded by F.B.I. agents and police with guns, about 20 black voters from Perry County, many older and some frail, were taken by bus to Mobile, where they were fingerprinted, photographed and questioned by the grand jury about their votes. “This was the most degrading thing,” the Rev. O.C. Dobynes, who accompanied the voters on the bus, told Congress a year later. “To me, it was just simply saying, We are going to scare you into saying what we want you to say.” Asked by a grand juror whether she’d voted absentee for the first time in the September primary, a Perry County resident named Fannie Mae Williams answered: “Uh-huh. First and last.” Two other women told the grand jury they were done with voting, according to the book “Lift Every Voice,” by Lani Guinier, a professor at Harvard Law School.

Albert and Evelyn Turner and Spencer Hogue were indicted in January 1985 on 29 counts, for mail fraud, conspiracy to commit voting fraud and voting more than once. Sessions and his assistants claimed the defendants filled out the disputed absentee ballots themselves. Each faced decades in prison. “It was hell,” remembers Evelyn Turner, now 80. (Her husband died in 2000.) “We had always helped people with voting, for ages, and they trusted us. Why would you mess with someone’s ballot, if you knew it wasn’t what they wanted? We weren’t fools.”

[…]

When the Turners and Hogue went to trial, in June 1985, their supporters came in such numbers that entry to the courtroom in Selma required a ticket. Witness after witness among the 17 voters who testified said that while they’d received assistance from the Turners and Hogue to fill out their ballots, they’d done so willingly. The exceptions were members of a single family of six, who said their ballots were altered without their permission.

During the trial, the prosecution adopted an exceptionally broad theory, arguing that it was a crime for a voter to sign a ballot that someone else filled out for him. “Even if the voter authorizes someone to complete the ballot?” the judge asked. “That is correct,” one of Sessions’s assistants said. The judge ruled that this theory was contrary to election law and the Constitution, and at the close of trial, threw out many of the counts against the Turners and Hogue. They were acquitted of the rest by the jury, which had been picked in Mobile and had seven black members and five white ones. A cheering crowd poured onto the steps of the courthouse.

During the last month, Sessions has sought to portray other aspects of his tenure as United States attorney as friendly to civil rights, though the lawyers who did the work in the cases he cited have accused him of exaggerating his role. The Perry County case is a precursor to current Republican claims that voter fraud at the polls is a widespread problem, which Sessions has promoted, even though there is little evidence to support it. Voter-impersonation fraud is a “myth,” a letter signed by more than 1,200 law professors opposing Sessions’s nomination states. Former Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, who helped defend Spencer Hogue, calls Sessions’s efforts in Perry County a “cautionary tale.” The case, Patrick wrote, “demonstrates what can happen when prosecutorial discretion is unchecked, when regard for facts is secondary to political objectives.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/m...-case-jeff-sessions-lost-and-cant-escape.html

Republicans considered Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to be too much of a racist to be a Federal judge in 1986, which I guess makes him a perfect choice to be their nominee AG in 2017.

 

[OldLady]

I read an article in the paper this morning with concerns he is also not a friend to women. HOWEVER, I question how one can say that when he has had twenty plus years of service since with no issues regarding race. Handsome is as handsome does. We were all young once and made mistakes.

 

[Billy_Bob]

JEFF SESSIONS IS A RACIST!!

Republican Senate, 1986, refusing to confirm Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for his demonstrated problems with race.

Funny how all those allegations were brought by democrats and found, later, to be false and wholly contrived..

 

[Moonglow]

He once joked that he only took issue with the KKK’s drug use and referred to civil rights groups as “un-American.”

 

[Billy_Bob]

I read an article in the paper this morning with concerns he is also not a friend to women. HOWEVER, I question how one can say that when he has had twenty plus years of service since with no issues regarding race. Handsome is as handsome does. We were all young once and made mistakes.

Sessions actions do speak louder than his accusers who have lied.... His character and actions are impeccable...

 

[Dschrute3]

He once joked that he only took issue with the KKK’s drug use and referred to civil rights groups as “un-American.”

Lay off the Fake News kid.

 

[Moonglow]

He once joked that he only took issue with the KKK’s drug use and referred to civil rights groups as “un-American.”

Lay off the Fake News kid.

Prove it is fake...

 

[Dschrute3]

He once joked that he only took issue with the KKK’s drug use and referred to civil rights groups as “un-American.”

Lay off the Fake News kid.

Prove it is fake...

You're regurgitating it. Enough proof.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The thing is - regardless of what the Democrats make up about Sessions - he will be confirmed.

Thus will the Democrats' limitations for the foreseeable future be defined.

 

[easyt65]

In an 'unprecedented' move, the party who was exposed with their own e-mails as being racists, sexists, homophobic anti-Semites are going to send out Cory Booker to try to convince people Sessions is a racist.

That's funny...and sad all at the same time.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

He once joked that he only took issue with the KKK’s drug use and referred to civil rights groups as “un-American.”

Civil rights group like NAALCP is un American as it isn't all inclusive as supposedly the US is supposed to be. If there was an all white only group you can bet the NAALCP would be there picketing how unfair and un America it would be. Without double standards liberals would have no standards at all.

CBC is another wonderful example of the hypocrisy of the left.

The Agriculture building in Washington DC has in the basement a poster cabinet with pictures of the group "Blacks in Government" or B.I.G.
I was wondering what would happen if someone put up the same thing but had "Whites in Government" or W.I.G.
But then I came up with an idea of putting all people together in 1 big cabinet and call it "People in Government" or P.I.G. The biggest Pork spending of the federal government.

 

[Iceweasel]

JEFF SESSIONS IS A RACIST!!

Republican Senate, 1986, refusing to confirm Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for his demonstrated problems with race.

How so? Did you know he put the Alabama KKK out of business?

 

[Dschrute3]

In an 'unprecedented' move, the party who was exposed with their own e-mails as being racists, sexists, homophobic anti-Semites are going to send out Cory Booker to try to convince people Sessions is a racist.

That's funny...and sad all at the same time.

Yeah, Wikileaks sure did show Democrats for who they really are. It's how they really talk when they think no one's listening. Pretty shameful stuff.

 

[Iceweasel]

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/m...-case-jeff-sessions-lost-and-cant-escape.html

Republicans considered Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to be too much of a racist to be a Federal judge in 1986, which I guess makes him a perfect choice to be their nominee AG in 2017.

Do you have something other than a fake news site?

 

[TNHarley]

I like Sessions. I just hope he doesn't hack it up like obamas picks!

 

[Moonglow]

I like Sessions. I just hope he doesn't hack it up like obamas picks!

Me too...

 

[miketx]

JEFF SESSIONS IS A RACIST!!

Republican Senate, 1986, refusing to confirm Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for his demonstrated problems with race.

Cowards all.