Alabama NAACP says Sessions appointment attempt to ‘normalize racism’

Two decades ago, Sessions, then a U.S. attorney from Mobile, Ala., appeared before the body as President Ronald Reagan’s nominee for the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama.

More specifically, his nomination has left supporters of pot legalization troubled about what his confirmation could mean for the future of legalization efforts at the state level given that the drug remains illegal under federal law. Senator Sessions was one of the earliest Republican lawmakers to support Trump’s White House candidacy.

In the mid-1980s, Sessions was criticized over the prosecution of three civil rights activists on charges of vote tampering in Perry County, Alabama.

In response to critics, Sessions supporters cite an investigation led by Sessions when he was U.S. attorney in Alabama, of the 1981 murder of a black man who was kidnapped, beaten, and killed by two Klansmen who hanged his body in a tree. The person interested in running would either need to not seek re-election for their current position, or not run for the senate seat.

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”. The hearing included accusations of making racially charged comments including an insensitive joke about the Ku Klux Klan and referring to the NAACP as “un-American”.

Sessions said he never called Figures “boy”, but Kennedy produced a letter from an organisation of black lawyers that said Figures made the allegation about Sessions to the organisation’s investigators at least twice.

Sessions’ peers on the Senate Judiciary Committee will nearly certainly delve into the Alabama senator’s past statements on race.

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“The president-elect has been unbelievably impressed with Senator Sessions and his phenomenal record as Alabama’s attorney general and U.S. attorney”. Expect the last time he was there to come up. To serve, Sessions and Pompeo must be confirmed by the Senate. He once told the publication Roll Call that “nativist” was a perfectly acceptable description of his viewpoint. His hardline opposition to both legal and illegal immigration was apparently the basis for his early enthusiasm for the Trump campaign. Now, he is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general – and his hard-line stance on immigration and 30-year-old allegations of racism are sure to draw scrutiny in confirmation hearings.

He also named retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.

Lott’s former aide, Ron Bonjean, told CNN that his boss really lost his job because he was in a power struggle with President George W. Bush, not because of the off-handed, impolitic comment at a birthday party.

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.

All three have been fierce critics of President Barack Obama and current USA policy.

In choosing Sessions as Head of the Justice Department and the country’s Chief Law Enforcement Officer, Trump rewarded a loyalist who’s tough and sometimes inflammatory statements on immigration were similar to his own. Ted Kennedy of MA and other Democrats – was “really heartbreaking to me”. “I see it as a political ideology”. “The attacks on religious freedom and freedom of conscience in general, for example, must be atop of the list”.

He shares Trump’s belief that Washington should work more closely with Moscow, and his warmth toward Russian Federation worries some national security experts. There was talk, however, about the department colluding with the Clintons to get her off the hook. “Lock her up.” Flynn joined in. Mike graduated number one in his class at West Point and is a graduate of Harvard Law School where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. There Pompeo began his political career in 2010, running to succeed an incumbent Republican who stepped down to run for US Senate.

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In the GOP primary and general-election campaign, he campaigned hard for Trump, gaining increasing influence with the nominee and the now president-elect. “Will they support the agenda for our Republican majority in the House and Senate?”

To lead the CIA, Trump tapped hawkish Congressman Mike Pompeo, a strident opponent of the Iran nuclear deal and a sharp critic of Trump’s campaign rival Hillary Clinton during hearings into the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.