(02-28-2016 11:35 PM)UofMstateU Wrote: It might be all over now...
Is that a good or a bad thing? I'm not sure what a Sen. Sessions endorsement means.
it gives him instant street cred with conservatives. the most significant knock against him is that he is a lifelong liberal, and he is only giving conservative positions lip service. this one endorsement makes it really, really difficult to make that argument now.
(This post was last modified: 02-29-2016 12:48 AM by EagleX.)
A vote for Hillary is a vote for Anarchy and even more heated divide of the nation. Trump is still a much more viable candidate as POTUS, But I'm still hoping Rubio or Cruz is left in the race when Kentucky has it's Caucus this Saturday.
(02-29-2016 08:37 AM)CardFan1 Wrote: A vote for Hillary is a vote for Anarchy and even more heated divide of the nation. Trump is still a much more viable candidate as POTUS, But I'm still hoping Rubio or Cruz is left in the race when Kentucky has it's Caucus this Saturday.
Curious if you all were aware of Sessions past. I certainly wasn't.
Quote:Sessions's first national exposure was, surely, mortifying for the would-be federal judge. It was 1986, and the then-39-year-old US attorney for the Southern District of Alabama was a Reagan nominee to the federal bench. Sessions had good reason to believe he'd be rubber-stamped through to a judgeship – some 200 of the Gipper's judges had already been heavily sprinkled throughout the federal judicial system. But Sessions stopped up the works. The young lawyer became only the second man in 50 years to be rejected by the Senate judiciary committee.
The reasons for his rejection, as I explained in this 2002 New Republic story had to do with a soupy mix of dubious and arguably racist moves, comments and motivations on the part of the Alabama native that led senator Ted Kennedy to announce it was "inconceivable … that a person of this attitude is qualified to be a US attorney, let alone a United States federal judge."
Later Kennedy would say the hearings created a ''clear and convincing case to gross insensitivity to the questions of race'' on the part of Sessions. His Democratic colleague, senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, called Sessions a man of ''marginal qualifications who lacks judicial temperament. … A nominee who is hostile, hostile to civil rights organisations and their causes."
(03-01-2016 10:55 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: Curious if you all were aware of Sessions past. I certainly wasn't.
Quote:Sessions's first national exposure was, surely, mortifying for the would-be federal judge. It was 1986, and the then-39-year-old US attorney for the Southern District of Alabama was a Reagan nominee to the federal bench. Sessions had good reason to believe he'd be rubber-stamped through to a judgeship – some 200 of the Gipper's judges had already been heavily sprinkled throughout the federal judicial system. But Sessions stopped up the works. The young lawyer became only the second man in 50 years to be rejected by the Senate judiciary committee.
The reasons for his rejection, as I explained in this 2002 New Republic story had to do with a soupy mix of dubious and arguably racist moves, comments and motivations on the part of the Alabama native that led senator Ted Kennedy to announce it was "inconceivable … that a person of this attitude is qualified to be a US attorney, let alone a United States federal judge."
Later Kennedy would say the hearings created a ''clear and convincing case to gross insensitivity to the questions of race'' on the part of Sessions. His Democratic colleague, senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, called Sessions a man of ''marginal qualifications who lacks judicial temperament. … A nominee who is hostile, hostile to civil rights organisations and their causes."
(03-01-2016 10:55 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: Curious if you all were aware of Sessions past. I certainly wasn't.
Quote:Sessions's first national exposure was, surely, mortifying for the would-be federal judge. It was 1986, and the then-39-year-old US attorney for the Southern District of Alabama was a Reagan nominee to the federal bench. Sessions had good reason to believe he'd be rubber-stamped through to a judgeship – some 200 of the Gipper's judges had already been heavily sprinkled throughout the federal judicial system. But Sessions stopped up the works. The young lawyer became only the second man in 50 years to be rejected by the Senate judiciary committee.
The reasons for his rejection, as I explained in this 2002 New Republic story had to do with a soupy mix of dubious and arguably racist moves, comments and motivations on the part of the Alabama native that led senator Ted Kennedy to announce it was "inconceivable … that a person of this attitude is qualified to be a US attorney, let alone a United States federal judge."
Later Kennedy would say the hearings created a ''clear and convincing case to gross insensitivity to the questions of race'' on the part of Sessions. His Democratic colleague, senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, called Sessions a man of ''marginal qualifications who lacks judicial temperament. … A nominee who is hostile, hostile to civil rights organisations and their causes."
(03-01-2016 10:55 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: Curious if you all were aware of Sessions past. I certainly wasn't.
Quote:Sessions's first national exposure was, surely, mortifying for the would-be federal judge. It was 1986, and the then-39-year-old US attorney for the Southern District of Alabama was a Reagan nominee to the federal bench. Sessions had good reason to believe he'd be rubber-stamped through to a judgeship – some 200 of the Gipper's judges had already been heavily sprinkled throughout the federal judicial system. But Sessions stopped up the works. The young lawyer became only the second man in 50 years to be rejected by the Senate judiciary committee.
The reasons for his rejection, as I explained in this 2002 New Republic story had to do with a soupy mix of dubious and arguably racist moves, comments and motivations on the part of the Alabama native that led senator Ted Kennedy to announce it was "inconceivable … that a person of this attitude is qualified to be a US attorney, let alone a United States federal judge."
Later Kennedy would say the hearings created a ''clear and convincing case to gross insensitivity to the questions of race'' on the part of Sessions. His Democratic colleague, senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, called Sessions a man of ''marginal qualifications who lacks judicial temperament. … A nominee who is hostile, hostile to civil rights organisations and their causes."
Quote:a black former assistant US attorney, Thomas Figures, testified that Sessions had called him "boy", and that he had joked about the Ku Klux Klan in ways that implied he wasn't particularly appalled by their appalling tactics. UPI reported during the hearings on Figures's testimony.
''Mr Sessions ... stated that he believed the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Operation PUSH and the National Council of Churches were all un-American organisations teaching anti-American values,'' Figures testified. ''The statement clearly was not intended as a joke.'' Figures also said he was present when Sessions said he believed the Ku Klux Klan was OK until he learned its members smoked marijuana – a statement Sessions has said was clearly made in jest. ''I certainly took it as a serious statement,'' Figures said.
Sessions fought the charges. As I wrote in 2002: "[He] denied the accusations but … admitted to frequently joking in an off-colour sort of way. In his defence, he said he was not a racist, pointing out that his children went to integrated schools and that he had shared a hotel room with a black attorney several times."
He did, however, also admit that he had called the Voting Rights Act of 1965 a "piece of intrusive legislation", a phrase he stood behind even in his confirmation hearings.
Clearly by this, he's not.
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(03-01-2016 10:55 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: Curious if you all were aware of Sessions past. I certainly wasn't.
Quote:Sessions's first national exposure was, surely, mortifying for the would-be federal judge. It was 1986, and the then-39-year-old US attorney for the Southern District of Alabama was a Reagan nominee to the federal bench. Sessions had good reason to believe he'd be rubber-stamped through to a judgeship – some 200 of the Gipper's judges had already been heavily sprinkled throughout the federal judicial system. But Sessions stopped up the works. The young lawyer became only the second man in 50 years to be rejected by the Senate judiciary committee.
The reasons for his rejection, as I explained in this 2002 New Republic story had to do with a soupy mix of dubious and arguably racist moves, comments and motivations on the part of the Alabama native that led senator Ted Kennedy to announce it was "inconceivable … that a person of this attitude is qualified to be a US attorney, let alone a United States federal judge."
Later Kennedy would say the hearings created a ''clear and convincing case to gross insensitivity to the questions of race'' on the part of Sessions. His Democratic colleague, senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, called Sessions a man of ''marginal qualifications who lacks judicial temperament. … A nominee who is hostile, hostile to civil rights organisations and their causes."
Quote:a black former assistant US attorney, Thomas Figures, testified that Sessions had called him "boy", and that he had joked about the Ku Klux Klan in ways that implied he wasn't particularly appalled by their appalling tactics. UPI reported during the hearings on Figures's testimony.
''Mr Sessions ... stated that he believed the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Operation PUSH and the National Council of Churches were all un-American organisations teaching anti-American values,'' Figures testified. ''The statement clearly was not intended as a joke.'' Figures also said he was present when Sessions said he believed the Ku Klux Klan was OK until he learned its members smoked marijuana – a statement Sessions has said was clearly made in jest. ''I certainly took it as a serious statement,'' Figures said.
Sessions fought the charges. As I wrote in 2002: "[He] denied the accusations but … admitted to frequently joking in an off-colour sort of way. In his defence, he said he was not a racist, pointing out that his children went to integrated schools and that he had shared a hotel room with a black attorney several times."
He did, however, also admit that he had called the Voting Rights Act of 1965 a "piece of intrusive legislation", a phrase he stood behind even in his confirmation hearings.
As an Alabamian, I couldn't care less about who Sessions endorses, and I will be voting against Shelby later today to hopefully get some new blood in the senate.
(03-01-2016 01:38 PM)dfarr Wrote: As an Alabamian, I couldn't care less about who Sessions endorses, and I will be voting against Shelby later today to hopefully get some new blood in the senate.
It looks like we will be canceling each other out then.
Clearly by this, he's not. ![[Image: Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-01-10%2Bat%2B7.59.47%2BAM.png]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8yXlb81ZYRs/Twx-CyIT38I/AAAAAAAAAgg/I3BcosaijxA/w800-h800/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-01-10%2Bat%2B7.59.47%2BAM.png)
