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

FILE - In this June 30, 2010 file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee member, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sessions told reporters Thursday, the president should take responsibilit... FILE - In this June 30, 2010 file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee member, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sessions told reporters Thursday, the president should take responsibility for the Secret Service, GSA and energy company Solyndra scandals and insist on a government culture in which taxpayer dollars are not wasted. He said, "I don't sense that this president has shown that kind of managerial leadership." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) MORE LESS
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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.”

During the 1986 hearing, former assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Figures said Sessions had called him “boy” and told him to be careful about what he said around “white folks.”

Figures also said that Sessions said he thought the Ku Klux Klan was “OK, until he learned that they smoked marijuana.”

Sessions called his comment about the Klan “a silly comment, I guess you might say, that I made.”

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  1. Thank you, NAACP!

    And decent Americans should shout out their support.

  2. Avatar for mrf mrf says:

    I would not trust the fair administration of justice to someone who pines for the confederacy.

  3. His confirmation hearings should be entertaining. The man has a lot of dirty laundry (some of it made of sheets) in his closet.

  4. Avatar for jadez jadez says:

    hey chuckie…do YOU have anything to say about these trump people?
    hey CHUCKIE!

    crickets…crickets

  5. Avatar for jadez jadez says:

    lol…something tells me this guy has every sheet he ever wore…still in his closet

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