democracy now! doing a story on racist sen. sessions' failed confirm. hearing years ago.

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http://democracynow.org

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1. sen. sessions has NO moral authority to lead the attack against sotomayor!

"Two Decades After His Rejection from Federal Bench for Racial Bias, Sen. Jeff Sessions Leads GOP Opposition to Sotomayor

"Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is leading the charge against Sotomayor becoming the nation’s first Latina Supreme Court justice. Twenty-three years ago, the Senate rejected Sessions’ confirmation to the federal bench, in part because he called the NAACP and the ACLU “un-American” and “Communist-inspired.”

"I want to turn to the record of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, who’s leading the charge against Judge Sotomayor. In Monday’s hearing Sessions warned of a “Brave New World where words have no true meaning” and “a judge is free to push his or her own political and social agenda.”

"Well Sessions has recently become the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committe, after Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter left the Republican Party. Sessions’ key position on the committee is remarkable considering his own history.

"Twenty-three years ago, Sessions was in the seat of the nominee. President Ronald Reagan nominated Sessions to be a U.S. district Judge in 1986. At that time, Reagan had already appointed some 200 judges throughout the federal system, and republicans held the majority on committee.

"But Sessions became only the second man in fifty years to not be recommended for confirmation. Two Republicans, including Arlen Specter, voted against him. His fellow Senator from Alabama, Howell Heflin, also voted against him citing “reasonable doubts” over Sessions’ ability to be “fair and impartial.”

"Sessions once described the NAACP and American Civil Liberties Union as “un-American” and “Communist-inspired” because they “forced civil rights down the throats of people.” Critics also testified that they had once heard Sessions say he admired the Ku Klux Klan.

see the rest of the story at http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/14/sessions

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2. Racist asshole is showing his ignorance

in front of the whole world.