Trump picks AG, CIA head, national security adviser

Flynn would not require U.S. Senate confirmation, unlike Sessions and Pompeo.

The senator denied making the statements.

Flynn was a critic of Obama’s military and foreign policy long before he began advising Trump on national security issues during the presidential campaign.

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A jury of seven blacks and five whites subsequently acquitted all three after deliberating for just three hours, and civil-rights groups charged that the prosecution had been aimed at intimidating black voters, who in the previous election had turned out in record numbers. I have supported civil rights activity in my State.

He was nominated by then-President Ronald Reagan to be a federal judge in 1986, but was denied confirmation after allegations that he had made racist remarks when he was U.S. attorney for Alabama.

The Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing of Jeff Sessions in 1986.

Sessions addressed each of these accusations in turn. According to transcripts, Sessions was accused, among other things, of joking that he thought the Ku Klux Klan “was OK” until he learned its members smoked marijuana and of calling a black assistant USA attorney “boy”. Trump’s nomination of US Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as Sessions speaks during a rally in Madison, Ala., Feb. 28, 2016.

As one of the Senate’s staunchest opponents of the Pacific trade deal and immigration reform, the diminutive Southerner has tried to convince his colleagues that Trump is the right candidate with the right message – that free trade and illegal immigration are killing jobs and wages.

In a statement Trump said, “he is a world-class legal mind and considered a truly great Attorney General and U.S. Attorney in the state of Alabama”.

The attorney general acts as the country’s chief law enforcement officer and head of the Justice Department.

“Having women in key positions is absolutely critical to the future parity of women in American politics”, said Gutgold, a professor of arts and sciences at Penn State, Lehigh Valley. “I’m not saying the attorney general doesn’t have a role, but under the authorities, the Homeland Security secretary definitely has more direct contact”. “I’ll wake u up when it’s over”, Navarro tweeted. People for the American Way led the protest in Upper Senate Park citing in a release Sessions’ “lengthy history of bigoted rhetoric and policies”. Sessions has taken the opposite tack for much of his career – and civil rights experts fear that under Sessions, they might not only lose their federal partner in fighting laws like those passed in North Carolina and Texas, but that the federal government may switch sides and argue that the laws are constitutional.

Even though Sessions is viewed as espousing hard-line views, analysts said, he has shown a willingness to compromise with his Democratic counterparts.

The incoming minority leader in the Senate, Democrat Chuck Schumer of NY, struck a slightly more neutral tone about Sessions, although he expressed concerns about Sessions’ commitment to civil rights enforcement at the Justice Department.

The Senate confirmation hearing of Sen.

Some Democrats slammed Sessions’ nomination Friday, including Rep. Luis Gutiérrez of IL, who said the senator was the right pick “if you have nostalgia for the days when blacks kept quiet, gays were in the closet, immigrants were invisible and women stayed in the kitchen”.

“When the president-elect has called for an expansion of stop and frisk, and he’s nominated a senator with an atrocious record on civil rights, A and B do not spell justice for most Americans”, Brooks says.

“I hear people complaining that we should give the Trump administration a chance”, Brown said.