Jeff Sessions Treats White Male Nominees Differently Than Female Latina Nominees

[Joanne98]

Run time: 09:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBD-3mcfwIE   Posted on YouTube: July 15, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 15, 2009 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 813

 
For Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, white men deserve preferential treatment. Given his stated sympathies for the KKK, this is hardly surpising. But it is worth noting. In his opening statement, Sessions said, Sessions said:

I will not vote for — no senator should vote for — an individual nominated by any President who believes it is acceptable for a judge to allow their own personal background, gender, prejudices, or sympathies to sway their decision in favor of, or against, parties before the court.

(Emphasis supplied.) Yet, Sessions voted for Samuel Alito, who testified in his confirmation hearings that he does take his own personal background and sympathies into account as a judge.

Sessions demands preferential treatment for white men. He clearly applies a stricter standard to persons who are not white men. Given his history, this is hardly surprising. But it is also the perfect embodiment of the Republican philosophy.

http://mediamatters.org/print/research/200907140007

[tomm2thumbs]

1. GOP = 'do as I say, not as I-sleep-around-on-my-wife'

I mean 'do'

[GivePeaceAchance]

2. It's all a bit comical now GOP are making fools of themselves, not one legal question intresting...

I think Sotomayor is totally thinking WTF. :wtf:

[RBInMaine]

3. Who are more swayed by ideology than Thomas and Scalia?? Talk about judicial "activism."

[JDPriestly]

4. Sessions demonstrates the very bias that he claims to condemn.

He is simply projecting his own feelings on Sotomayor. She is smiling because she knows he is not talking about her personality or her record. She was originally appointed by the first President Bush. She is a moderate. Sessions is an extreme right-winger and thinks his is the only way to think.

[Archie_Leech]

5. reSCUMlican VERMIN

rightwing reactionary reSCUMlican VERMIN = double standard hypocrites.

[ro1942]

6. hypocrite

ill say one thing, this racist has a lot of nerve

[BBri]

7. The Look on Her Face...

She looks like she wants to burst out laughing and say "What the phuck are you talking about?". I wonder if he's thinking "I bet I can get her angry enough to pull out that switchblade she has in her purse.". You know us Puerto Ricans, always ready for a knife fight. (I am one so relax, it's just a joke...)

[Lil Missy]

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