“The letter written by Coretta Scott King about Jeff
Sessions that Elizabeth Warren wasn't allowed to read on the Senate Floor.”
Senate confirms Sessions as attorney general BY JORDAIN
CARNEY - 02/08/17 07:20 PM EST http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/318608-senate-confirms-sessions-as-attorney-general
https://www.scribd.com/document/338729117/Scott-King-1986-Letter-and-Testimony-Signed
The Senate voted Wednesday night to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general, capping a vicious debate that left Democrats and Republicans alike seething at times.
The Senate voted Wednesday night to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general, capping a vicious debate that left Democrats and Republicans alike seething at times.
No Republicans went against Sessions in the 52-47 vote. Sen.
Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was the only Democrat to back Sessions.
[…]
Republicans decried the Democratic tactics, arguing they
were going to new lows to smear Sessions.
[…]
The fiery words in the last days of the debate over Sessions
were somewhat surprising.
While the issue of race had always hung over the debate,
Sessions is well-liked personally by many senators. That made the stinging
words all the more noteworthy — and raises questions about the ability of
lawmakers to work together going forward.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/318608-senate-confirms-sessions-as-attorney-general
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March 19, 1986
According to the Washington
Post, “Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther
King Jr., urged Congress in a letter to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff
Sessions for federal judge, saying that allowing him to join the federal bench
would ‘irreparably damage the work of my husband.’”
“In the letter, King writes that Sessions’s ascension to the
federal bench ‘simply cannot be allowed to happen,’ arguing that as a U.S.
attorney, the Alabama lawmaker pursued ‘politically-motivated voting fraud
prosecutions’ and that he ‘lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a
federal judge.’ She said Sessions’s conduct in prosecuting civil rights leaders
in a voting-fraud case ‘raises serious questions about his commitment to the
protection of the voting rights of all American citizens.’” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/10/read-the-letter-coretta-scott-king-wrote-opposing-sessionss-1986-federal-nomination/?utm_term=.dfbccea3ba10
“The letter written by Coretta Scott King about Jeff
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Republicans vote to rebuke Elizabeth Warren, saying she
impugned Sessions’s character By Paul Kane and Ed O'Keefe February 7 at 11:39
PM
“Senate Republicans passed a party-line rebuke Tuesday night
of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for a speech opposing attorney general
nominee Jeff Sessions, striking down her words for impugning the Alabama
senator’s character.
“In an extraordinarily rare move, Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.) interrupted Warren’s speech, in a near-empty chamber as
debate on Sessions’s nomination heads toward a Wednesday evening vote, and said
that she had breached Senate rules by reading past statements against Sessions
from figures such as the late senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and the late
Coretta Scott King.”
[…]
The Senate voted, 49 to 43, strictly on party lines, to
uphold the ruling that Warren violated Rule 19 of the
Senate that says senators are not allowed to “directly or indirectly,
by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct
or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.” Pursuant to that rule, Warren was
ordered to sit down and forbidden from speaking during the remainder of the
debate on the nomination of Sessions.
Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote opposing Sessions’s
1986 federal nomination By Wesley Lowery January 10, 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/10/read-the-letter-coretta-scott-king-wrote-opposing-sessionss-1986-federal-nomination/?utm_term=.7dc2d18d9ab8
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