His confirmation for a Federal judgeship had been held up in the past, but many of the people on the Senate Judiciary Committee have actually worked with him, so they would have a better sense of him now. As we reported, calling him a ‘racist’ seems another misguided effort on part of Democrats.
Via Daily Caller:
Republican Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions could face a tough time getting confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, as Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile called on the senate Thursday to reject his nomination.
“Mr. Trump’s choice of Sen. Sessions for Attorney General is deeply troubling,” Brazile said in a statement. “His demonstrated disdain for the rights of ordinary Americans, his history of discrimination and pattern of racist behavior make him unfit to serve as the next Attorney General. I call on members of the United States Senate to reject his nomination.”
When former President Ronald Reagan tapped then-U.S. Attorney Sessions to serve as a federal judge in 1986, the senate refused to confirm him. A black colleague accused Sessions of saying he liked the Ku Klux Klan until he found out they smoke weed and said Sessions called him “boy.” Another colleague said that the future senator called a white civil rights lawyer a “disgrace to his race.”