Trump’s inauguration is set for January 20 and a vote on Sessions – and the other Trump appointees – can’t be held until after that day.
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Most recently, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that he too opposes Sessions’ nomination and vows to vote against him. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to serve as attorney general in the Trump administration.
While it doesn’t make sense to hold Sessions responsible for those who choose to endorse him, like white supremacist David Duke, Brooks said that he doesn’t believe the Alabama senator “has sufficiently described a Department of Justice fully committed with enforcing the nation’s civil rights”.
Wednesday, the “surprise” witness before the Judiciary committee was a Senate colleague of Sessions, Cory Booker of New Jersey.
Given that he is now a sitting member of the Senate, Sessions would be able to vote to confirm himself both in the Senate Judiciary Committee and when his nomination goes to the Senate as a whole.
Booker argued that Session’s record suggests he would not seek to protect the rights of LGBT Americans, would uphold voting rights, or protect “immigrants and affirm their human dignity”. It’s also very important to me that we have an Attorney General who will be a strong supporter of constitutional rights.
Sessions’ Senate confirmation hearings, which ran into Wednesday after an eight-hour marathon session on Tuesday, have been contentious.
Cole also highlighted Sessions’ move to charge three black activists with voter fraud when he was a US attorney in Alabama in 1985.
Some residents said Sessions will only be a positive A.G.by looking at what they’ve heard about his time and work in Alabama and his religious beliefs.
The remarks by Sessions come as the Senate Judiciary Committee kicked off a series of congressional hearings on President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Booker had nothing to say about Sessions’s personal and private views on race. Several aspects of Senator Sessions’ record unfortunately have been mischaracterized and distorted to portray him as somehow being indifferent, if not hostile, to civil rights. Barring a highly unlikely GOP turnaround, Sessions has the votes to be confirmed even if no moderate Democrats or independents support his nomination.
“I know that Sen”. Addressing the Senate, he said Sessions is not fit to serve as America’s top server of justice.
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The arc of US history is on full display as the peaceful transition of power takes place from the administration of President Barack Obama to that of incoming President-elect Donald Trump.
