Thursday, January 5, 2017

NAACP Activists Arrested for Sit-In Protesting Jeff Sessions’ AG Nomination for “Hostility” Toward Civil Rights

The First Trump Era Political Arrests

By Elliot Hannon 

At issue is Sessions’ dismissal of accusations of voter suppressions against minority communities, as well as a history of racist rhetoric and bigoted deeds that make him a threat to the concept of civil rights in the United States. Sessions’ past remarks—once allegedly calling a black lawyer “boy” and warning him to “be careful how you talk to white folks,” as well as joking that his only problem with the Ku Klux Klan was its drug use—were enough to prevent him from a federal judgeship in the 1980s. Sessions has also referred to the NAACP as “un-American” in the past and has called the Voting Rights Act a “piece of intrusive legislation.”
Full Article via Slate