Eleven months ago, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) was such a great guy that it was truly an honor and blessing to work with him on legislation honoring civil rights “foot soldiers.” At least that’s how Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) felt last February ~
 

Flash forward to January 2017 and Senator Sessions’ confirmation hearing for the position of attorney general and suddenly Booker deems his collegue incapable of ensuring equal rights for all Americans. In an unprecedented move – one sitting senator testifying against another – Booker attacked Sessions’ character in a shameless display of partisanship ~

“The next attorney general must bring hope and healing to this country, and this demands a more courageous empathy than Sen. Sessions’ record demonstrates.” Booker said.
 
“If one is to be attorney general, they must be willing to continue the hallowed tradition in our country of fighting for justice for all, for equal justice for civil rights,” he continued.

 
Huh? I’m thinking he must be off his meds – or talking about some other Sen. Sessions. It certainly can’t be the one who desegregated schools in Alabama and got the death penalty for the head of the KKK.
 

On Wednesday Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) exposed Booker and his leftist cronies’ attack on Sessions for the ugly smear campaign it is ~

“It’s amazing to me that with a senator having cast 6,000 votes in the United States Senate, that we’re focused on a handful of policy differences. And somehow people are saying that those are dispositive of the qualifications of a person who we’ve served alongside of,” Cornyn said of such attempts […]
 
“Frankly,” the Texas senator continued, “the descriptions we’ve heard today are so wildly disparate that I would imagine, for people who didn’t know Senator Sessions and didn’t know his record as I do and as those who have served with him, it would be hard to reconcile.”

In addition, as Nate Madden at Conservative Review explains, the unwarranted criticisms are doubly invalid because they aren’t relevant to the position for which Sessions is being considered ~

It is the duty of a senator to vote against policies that he and his constituency view as bad; if he fails to do that, he won’t be back in the chamber after the next. If an attorney general fails to faithfully enforce standing law, he or she can always be impeached by Congress. That’s how it’s supposed to work. Trying to disqualify Sen. Jess Sessions for the latter, because he adequately did the former, is dishonest and pathetic.

As further evidence of Senator Booker’s partisan duplicity, as Nancy Flory reports at the Stream ~ Black Pastors Defend Sen. Sessions, Urge Senate to Confirm Him as Attorney General ~

Black pastors from Alabama and other states showed up to a Capitol Hill news conference Monday to support President-Elect Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). The Frederick Douglass Foundation and Family Research Council’s Watchmen on the Wall coordinated efforts to urge the U.S. Senate to confirm Sen. Sessions in the Attorney General role as nominated […]
 

“Americans are living in a toxic climate where the serious charge of racism is carelessly leveled against anyone with whom the left disagrees. We are here today to make it perfectly clear that this attack against Senator Jeff Sessions is baseless, and that he is more than qualified to be the next Attorney General.”
~ Rev. Dean Nelson

 
Finally, here’s a testimony from a guy who should have every reason to resent the senator from Alabama: Son of civil rights leader prosecuted by Sessions endorses the Senator. Albert Turner, Jr. has an admirable quality all Americans used to value – integrity ~

I have known Senator Sessions for many years, beginning with the voter fraud case in Perry County in which my parents were defendants. My differences in policy and ideology with him do not translate to personal malice. He is not a racist. As I have said before, at no time then or now has Jeff Sessions said anything derogatory about my family. He was a prosecutor at the Federal level with a job to do. He was presented with evidence by a local District Attorney that he relied on, and his office presented the case. That’s what a prosecutor does. I believe him when he says that he was simply doing his job.
 
I believe that he is someone with whom I, and others in the civil rights community can work if given the opportunity. I believe that he will listen, as he has in the past, to the concerns of my community. More than most I am very familiar with him. I believe he will be fair in his application of the law and the Constitution; as such I support his nomination to be the next Attorney General of the United States.

 
So, with all due respect Senator Booker, we’re just not buying it. Senator Jeff Sessions can’t be a wonderful civil rights enthusiast one minute, and a dastardly racist the next. That sort of calculated duplicity is reserved for leftist lapdogs like yourself.

 
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