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Jeff Sessions: Racist, Cruel, Pro Execution, Pro War, Pro Torture
Please call Senate at 202 224 3121 to ask for a no vote on Jeff Sessions who is racist, pro-war, pro-torture, pro-execution.
Sessions as AG of Alabama executed only blacks, used the unconstitutional hitching post as a form of punishment, has at other times recommended the death penalty for a second sentence for marijuana sales, has voted for torture and against the Violence Against Women Act.
22 Of Many Reasons Senate Should Vote Down Jeff Sessions For Attorney General
If after being acquainted with the history, you believe Jeff Sessions, Trump's selection for Attry General, is racist, please call your senator at 202 224 3121 and ask for a no vote on his nomination.
Senator Chris Coons testimony before Congress on Feb 1st and his earlier questions of Sessions can be seen at cspan.org He brought up several of the following points:
1. As attorney general of Alabama, Sessions approved of the unconstitutional hitching post. Black and white prisoners were shackled to posts to roast in the sun.
2. Sessions was one of only 9 senators who voted in favor of torture and against McCain's amendment to end its use.
3. Others have mentioned that Sessions advocated the death penalty for those convicted more than once of selling pot. Mandatory death penalties are unconstitutional, but Jeff Sessions asked for
mandatory death sentences for drug sellers' 2nd offense
4. Sessions as attorney general of Alabama executed 3. All of them were black.
5. Sessions opposed protections for the right of privacy.
6. Sessions voted against the Violence Against Women Act which gives women subjected to violence places to stay.
7. Sessions has blocked efforts to reform criminal justice. (There are hundreds of examples, one of which is many prisons have no air conditioning in summer. Texas prison temperatures have reached 135 degrees and caused prisoner deaths.)
8. Coons said that in general Sessions has favored harsher longer sentences.
9. Sessions was in favor of expanded surveillance by NSA
10. The Voting Rights Act was pushed into law by President Johnson, to end 2 centuries of discrimination against black citizens. Senator Sessions expressed delight when Scalia, Roberts, and 3 other Republican justices ended it. Coretta Scott King wrote a letter about the need to continue it.
11. Sessions opposed protection for LGBT citizens.
12. Sessions called the NAACP and the ACLU "un-American" and "Communist-inspired."
13 In 1986, the Senate voted against the nomination of Jeff Sessions to a federal
judgeship, believing him to be racist. The Senate was a majority Republican at that time.
14 Sessions singled out black activists for prosecution persecution. including black workers in a voter registration drive. It took the jury three hours to throw out his indictment.
15. Sessions criticized President Obama for his commutations of very harsly treated prisoners, sentenced to life without parole for minor drug sales.
16. Both Trump who nominated Sessions and Trump's father were taken to court for their part in segregating apartment complexes
17. Sessions only became a US senator because of more than a century of denial of the franchise to black voters in a variety of ways.
18. Sessions defended keeping the confederate flag on public property in Alabama.
19. Sessions said separation of church and state is unconstitutional
20. Sessions had claimed to have worked on civil rights cases for minorities, but his
law professor said that was not so. Sessions later withdrew his claim. Senator Chris Coons gave other examples of Sessions' misrepresenting the truth.
21. Sessions had told a white attorney he should not have black clients, and made
racist comments in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's.
22. Sessions said Roe v Wade was a bad decision.
.
In addition
Sessions is a supporter of the illegal immoral wars the US government has waged since G H W Bush was president, a climate change denier, someone who opposes gay marriage, someone whose history indicates he might aggressively work against the 8 new states and others states which have legalized marijuana.
The Washington Post reports 'Sessions has opposed nearly every immigration bill that has come before the Senate the past two decades that has included a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally'..
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1771983583122145.1073741962.10
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/01/09/jeff-sessions-attorney-general
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004853137/naacp-presiden
https://s.bsd.net/naacp/main/page/-/images/user_uploads/feature/VAslider/@mx_605
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/31/us/judge-rules-against-alabama-s-priso
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2002/mar/15/hitching-post-unconstit/
http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2002/06/27-hitching-post.jpg
https://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/14/sessions
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/jeff-sessions-is-no-fan-of-s
http://media.cleveland.com/darcy/photo/22darcy-sessions1jpg-e5a1995161d2
http://naacp.org/
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4643843%2Fsen-leahy-asks-sen-sessions-cbd
22 Of Many Reasons Senate Should Vote Down Jeff Sessions For Attorney General
If after being acquainted with the history, you believe Jeff Sessions, Trump's selection for Attry General, is racist, please call your senator at 202 224 3121 and ask for a no vote on his nomination.
Senator Chris Coons testimony before Congress on Feb 1st and his earlier questions of Sessions can be seen at cspan.org He brought up several of the following points:
1. As attorney general of Alabama, Sessions approved of the unconstitutional hitching post. Black and white prisoners were shackled to posts to roast in the sun.
2. Sessions was one of only 9 senators who voted in favor of torture and against McCain's amendment to end its use.
3. Others have mentioned that Sessions advocated the death penalty for those convicted more than once of selling pot. Mandatory death penalties are unconstitutional, but Jeff Sessions asked for
mandatory death sentences for drug sellers' 2nd offense
4. Sessions as attorney general of Alabama executed 3. All of them were black.
5. Sessions opposed protections for the right of privacy.
6. Sessions voted against the Violence Against Women Act which gives women subjected to violence places to stay.
7. Sessions has blocked efforts to reform criminal justice. (There are hundreds of examples, one of which is many prisons have no air conditioning in summer. Texas prison temperatures have reached 135 degrees and caused prisoner deaths.)
8. Coons said that in general Sessions has favored harsher longer sentences.
9. Sessions was in favor of expanded surveillance by NSA
10. The Voting Rights Act was pushed into law by President Johnson, to end 2 centuries of discrimination against black citizens. Senator Sessions expressed delight when Scalia, Roberts, and 3 other Republican justices ended it. Coretta Scott King wrote a letter about the need to continue it.
11. Sessions opposed protection for LGBT citizens.
12. Sessions called the NAACP and the ACLU "un-American" and "Communist-inspired."
13 In 1986, the Senate voted against the nomination of Jeff Sessions to a federal
judgeship, believing him to be racist. The Senate was a majority Republican at that time.
14 Sessions singled out black activists for prosecution persecution. including black workers in a voter registration drive. It took the jury three hours to throw out his indictment.
15. Sessions criticized President Obama for his commutations of very harsly treated prisoners, sentenced to life without parole for minor drug sales.
16. Both Trump who nominated Sessions and Trump's father were taken to court for their part in segregating apartment complexes
17. Sessions only became a US senator because of more than a century of denial of the franchise to black voters in a variety of ways.
18. Sessions defended keeping the confederate flag on public property in Alabama.
19. Sessions said separation of church and state is unconstitutional
20. Sessions had claimed to have worked on civil rights cases for minorities, but his
law professor said that was not so. Sessions later withdrew his claim. Senator Chris Coons gave other examples of Sessions' misrepresenting the truth.
21. Sessions had told a white attorney he should not have black clients, and made
racist comments in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's.
22. Sessions said Roe v Wade was a bad decision.
.
In addition
Sessions is a supporter of the illegal immoral wars the US government has waged since G H W Bush was president, a climate change denier, someone who opposes gay marriage, someone whose history indicates he might aggressively work against the 8 new states and others states which have legalized marijuana.
The Washington Post reports 'Sessions has opposed nearly every immigration bill that has come before the Senate the past two decades that has included a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally'..
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1771983583122145.1073741962.10
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/01/09/jeff-sessions-attorney-general
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004853137/naacp-presiden
https://s.bsd.net/naacp/main/page/-/images/user_uploads/feature/VAslider/@mx_605
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/31/us/judge-rules-against-alabama-s-priso
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2002/mar/15/hitching-post-unconstit/
http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2002/06/27-hitching-post.jpg
https://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/14/sessions
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/jeff-sessions-is-no-fan-of-s
http://media.cleveland.com/darcy/photo/22darcy-sessions1jpg-e5a1995161d2
http://naacp.org/
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4643843%2Fsen-leahy-asks-sen-sessions-cbd
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Every single Democrat should be told to vote No on Jeff Sessions as Attorney General or expect the Democratic Party to be cast into the dustbin of history. For the entire list of US senators with their phone numbers and Emails, see https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/
Senator Feinstein
Feinstein, Dianne - (D - CA) Class I
331 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-3841
Contact: http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
Harris, Kamala D. - (D - CA) Class III
112 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-3553
Contact: http://www.harris.senate.gov/content/contact-senator
Feinstein & Harris have already approved 2 of Nazi Trump's appointments:
The current Senate, Democrats and Republicans together, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, just approved retired US Marine Corps General James "Mad Dog" Matthis as Secretary of "Defense" (War) in a 98 to 1 vote, with Kirsten Gillibrand voting no. Senator Bernie Sanders has a consistent pro-military voting record and always welcomes military contractors to his state of Vermont. Sanders was also among the 88 who voted 88 to 11 to confirm retired Marine Corps General John Kelly to be Secretary of “Homeland Security” (the Gestapo) on January 20, 2017. California’s 2 Democratic senators, Feinstein and Harris, were in the majority supporting these 2 reactionary Trump cabinet nominations. See https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00029 and https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00030
ANYONE, much less an attorney general, as Sessions was for the State of Alabama, who promotes tying people to hitching posts at all, much less in the boiling hot sun, should be disbarred and never allowed to hold any office again as Jeff Sessions is obviously criminally insane.
Nazi Trump is criminally insane, election-frauding, and immediately impeachable. Nazi Trump is not only threatening to murder and torture Americans with his appointment of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, he is also threatening to destroy all advances for labor, the environment, social services, public school education, women and the LGBT community since the 19th century, and he has his hand on the nuclear trigger while he accelerates the growth of the military to make war on the people of the world, including nuclear powers, Russia and China, to maximize the profits of the oil companies and the munitions companies, the only reason the military exists.
Senator Feinstein
Feinstein, Dianne - (D - CA) Class I
331 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-3841
Contact: http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
Harris, Kamala D. - (D - CA) Class III
112 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-3553
Contact: http://www.harris.senate.gov/content/contact-senator
Feinstein & Harris have already approved 2 of Nazi Trump's appointments:
The current Senate, Democrats and Republicans together, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, just approved retired US Marine Corps General James "Mad Dog" Matthis as Secretary of "Defense" (War) in a 98 to 1 vote, with Kirsten Gillibrand voting no. Senator Bernie Sanders has a consistent pro-military voting record and always welcomes military contractors to his state of Vermont. Sanders was also among the 88 who voted 88 to 11 to confirm retired Marine Corps General John Kelly to be Secretary of “Homeland Security” (the Gestapo) on January 20, 2017. California’s 2 Democratic senators, Feinstein and Harris, were in the majority supporting these 2 reactionary Trump cabinet nominations. See https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00029 and https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00030
ANYONE, much less an attorney general, as Sessions was for the State of Alabama, who promotes tying people to hitching posts at all, much less in the boiling hot sun, should be disbarred and never allowed to hold any office again as Jeff Sessions is obviously criminally insane.
Nazi Trump is criminally insane, election-frauding, and immediately impeachable. Nazi Trump is not only threatening to murder and torture Americans with his appointment of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, he is also threatening to destroy all advances for labor, the environment, social services, public school education, women and the LGBT community since the 19th century, and he has his hand on the nuclear trigger while he accelerates the growth of the military to make war on the people of the world, including nuclear powers, Russia and China, to maximize the profits of the oil companies and the munitions companies, the only reason the military exists.
For more information:
https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/
The petition to sign from the NAACP to all Senators and Reps to Stop Sessions is at
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-jeff-sessions?source=s.tw
Follow the updates, with names and numbers of Republican swing votes to Stop Sessions at
https://twitter.com/hashtag/stopsessions?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-jeff-sessions?source=s.tw
Follow the updates, with names and numbers of Republican swing votes to Stop Sessions at
https://twitter.com/hashtag/stopsessions?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash
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