Email insights: Progressive Change group rails against Jeff Sessions AG nomination

On Friday, it was announced that President-elect Donald Trump had tapped Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as his Attorney General. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general.

NBC said Thursday that Trump was considering Romney as secretary of state, which would put a figure with more orthodox Republican views at the helm of USA foreign policy, though still entirely answerable to the Trump White House under the American presidential system. Sessions, 69, could, however, face confirmation hiccups: His last confirmation hearing, in 1986 for a federal judgeship, was derailed over allegations that he’d made racially charged remarks while USA attorney in Alabama.

And another witness said Sessions told him he was fine with the Ku Klux Klan, except for their use of drugs.

Mr. Specter, a Republican-turned-Democrat, later said he regretted his vote against Mr. Sessions. The president-elect also moved to install Michael T. Flynn, a retired lieutenant general who has said that Islamist militancy poses a global existential threat, as his national security adviser.

One of Trump’s most controversial hires to date, Bannon joined Trump’s campaign as CEO in August after serving as the head of Breitbart News – a far-right outlet that is one of Trump’s biggest backers.

“Fundamentally, nearly no one coming from the Dominican Republic to the United States is coming because they have a skill that would benefit us and that would indicate their likely success in our society”, Sessions said at the time.

In the case of Jeff Sessions, we know that the Democrats’ racism charges are insincere. “These people who’ve been suppressed by the positive transformation that has gone on over the last few years are now feeling free to express themselves”.

Supporters for Sessions’ nomination point to his prosecution of a Klansman for the abduction and murder of a black teenager, as well as his 2006 vote to extend the Voting Rights Act and his 2009 vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country’s first African-American Attorney General. These two steered the Justice Department into proactive measures to protect civil and human rights.

Flynn has described Islam as a “cancer” and a “political ideology”, and in February tweeted that “fear of Muslims is rational”.

Kansas lawmaker Pompeo, 52, co-authored a report slamming then-secretary of state Clinton’s handling of the Benghazi attack, in which the USA ambassador to Libya and three other Americans died. The Civil Rights Division became a partisan tool of the Democrats.

Romney assailed Trump in a stinging speech in March, calling him a “con man” and a “phony”.

“The scariest part of his potential administration will be how his political debts to the alt-right will manifest itself in his administration and policies”, Bolden said.

His appointment comes after he was the first GOP senator to officially endorse Trump during the Republican primary. “I think we need to be careful about this”. “Jeff Sessions.” Clarke said.

“I hear people complaining that we should give the Trump administration a chance”, Brown said. “While we have had our share of strong differences – principally on the politicization of the tragedy in Benghazi – I know that he is someone who is willing to listen and engage, both key qualities in a Central Intelligence Agency director”.

Sessions, like Mike Flynn, is not a conciliatory pick or one that will win Trump plaudits from his critics on either side of the aisle.

“I have been an African American for 71 years and I think I know a racist when I experience one”, he added.

The marijuana industry now benefits from a legal memorandum issued by the Justice Department in 2013 that essentially adopted a policy of non-interference with marijuana-friendly state laws, so long as they don’t threaten other federal priorities, such as preventing the distribution of the drug to minors and supporting cartels.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence, top center, leaves the Richard Rodgers Theatre after a performance of “Hamilton”, in New York, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016.