‘Troubling Things’ in Record of Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Demo..

Elaine Walton, an African-American resident of New Orleans, said she had deep concerns. Jeff Sessions, tapped for attorney general.

“The selection of Jeff Sessions is a deliberate attempt to undo all of President Obama’s policies of inclusiveness and diversity”, the NAACP statement said. They are to meet this weekend, a transition official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss Trump’s schedule publicly. But all of us ought to remember who won the election. Holder and Lynch also launched controversial investigations into police departments across the country.

In a statement on Friday, Trump called Sessions a “world-class legal mind”, and said Pompeo would be “a brilliant and unrelenting leader for our intelligence community”. “Senate must demand that Sessions as AG stop the massive institutional race discrimination against whites!” His 1986 nomination to the federal bench failed in the GOP-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee because of claims that he had made offensive remarks about racial matters, in addition to calling the ACLU and the NAACP “un-American”. He has said that NSA leaker Edward Snowden deserves the death penalty for exposing the US surveillance efforts.

However, this time it still might not be easy.

The American Civil Liberties Union noted that it does not take a position supporting or opposing presidential or judicial nominations, but urged close examination of Sessions’ and Pompeo’s records during their upcoming confirmation hearings.

Democrats were just as critical of Alabama Sen. He was dogged by racist comments he was accused of making while serving as USA attorney in Alabama.

“Sessions will bring a dramatically different ideological vision for the role of the Justice Department, ” said Jonathan H. Adler, a professor at Case Western Reserve University.

The committee’s top Democrat, Sen. The Trumpian immigration policy ideas Sessions has championed would be costly, inhumane and unnecessary.

“One question I’d want to ask him, ‘What do you want to do with the Civil Rights Division?'” Schumer said. “I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all”. Thom Tillis, a Judiciary Committee member, lauded Sessions’ “productive and gracious exchanges of ideas”. And since then, at least one of the “no” votes, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy on major legislaiton. His attorney-general nomination doesn’t alter that opinion. “That is our number one goal, President-elect Trump’s agenda”, Bentley said. Jeff Sessions for attorney general and U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Last week, voters doubled the number of states that will allow recreational use of marijuana, with California, Nevada, Massachusetts and ME joining the list that already comprised Washington, Colorado, Alaska and Oregon.

Before Sessions was the junior U.S. Senator from Alabama, he served as Alabama’s U.S. Attorney from 1981 to 1993, during both the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. Don Beyer Jr. said in a statement. “He has the courage and the proven record to take on special interests”. He has also critiqued the Justice Department for not taking a stand against state-level legalization efforts.

“It could have been a great opportunity to say, ‘Here I am in here now”.

Conservative activists, such as Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin, were also excited by the news, noting the DOJ’s leftward shift under the Obama administration. “I think Jeff Sessions believes in and respects the rule of law”, Williams said, “and we are a nation of laws”.

But there is some hope for marijuana supporters. Sen. But in Sessions they saw a target-rich environment.

The first senator to endorse the president elect, Alabama’s Sessions is known for his tough stance on immigration enforcement.

Leonard Leo, the executive vice president of the Federalist Society who has met with Trump concerning Supreme Court nominees, agreed.

A member of the House intelligence committee, Pompeo said former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden should face the death penalty for taking and releasing secret documents about surveillance programs in which the USA government collected the phone records of millions of Americans.

Two of the highest-ranking Republicans in state office – Attorney General Luther Strange and Senate President Del Marsh – are among those thought to be interested in the job. “The attacks on religious freedom and freedom of conscience in general, for example, must be atop of the list”.

After the Benghazi panel found no new evidence of wrongdoing by the Obama administration or Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the attack, Pompeo and another Republican member of the committee, Rep. Jim Jordan of OH, said they were convinced there had been a cover-up, and filed a 48-page addendum that included far harsher criticism of the administration and of Clinton.