Day -11: Jeff Sessions Sees Things In Black and White; After Confirmation, to Oversee Grey Areas of Law
Sen. Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) confirmation hearing before the Senate is set to begin tomorrow morning.
Jeff Sessions, a Republican Senator from Alabama, whose nomination to be a federal judge in the 1980s was blocked by a GOP-controlled Senate, has been nominated by the president-elect to be the highest ranking attorney in the nation.
A man who impugned African-Americans, white lawyers who defended them and the KKK — but only after learning that some members smoked marijuana — will be the next Attorney General unless the GOP-controlled Senate denies him again.
The nation’s top would-be attorney was deemed too racist to be a federal judge by a Congress that was 53-47 in favor of the red team. At those hearings, one Senator commented that there were serious questions whether Sessions could be fair and impartial.
Sessions is seen as overwhelmingly likely to get confirmed by the GOP-controlled Senate this time around.
As Alabama Attorney General, Sessions’ defense of school funding model was found unconstitutional because of disparities between predominately wealthy white schools, and poor black schools. Other serious problems manifested, including denying of funding to organizations that advocated for homosexual students, on the grounds that sodomy was illegal.
The Attorney General leads the Department of Justice, who is tasked with supporting and carrying out the vision of the Attorney General. Sessions, after his likely confirmation, will be tasked with influencing U.S. policy on a bevy of issues, from prosecuting and defending cases in courts and providing advice and opinions on legal questions to the president and heads of any of the departments.
Many laws have significant grey areas, ripe for a variety of interpretations and defenses. Sessions can wield considerable influence in these areas.
However, we know he often see things as black and white issues.
-11 days in, 1472 to go
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