What reports exist of the connection of jeff sessions (sotomayor confirmation hearings) and the ku klux klan?
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama has given his opening statement. Sessions is the committee’s ranking Republican, ever since Arlen Specter switched his affiliation to Democrat. Sessions has an interesting personal connection to this process. He came before this committee 22 years ago, when he was nominated by President Reagan to be a U.S. district judge. The committee killed the nomination on a 9-9 vote, in part because some critics of Sessions testified that he had demonstrated “gross insensitivity” on racial issues. A U.S. attorney had testified that he had heard Sessions claim that he had once admired the Ku Klux Klan. Sources: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/sotomayor-hearing-sen-jeff-sessions-personal-connection-to-the-process-.
This week’s award for consistency in public life goes to Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who was openly disdainful of a crying 12-year-old during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week on the Uniting American Families Act, which would give equal citizenship rights to the foreign-born same-sex partners of American citizens. Sessions opposes the bill. The committee was hearing from Shirley Tan, a Filipino woman who had fled her country after being physically attacked by a man who had killed her mother and sister. Tan and her American partner of 23 years are raising 12-year-old twin sons here, but she was almost deported in April, and has been granted only a temporary reprieve. As Tan began to speak, one of her sons, who was seated behind her, burst into tears, and Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy stopped the hearing to inquire whether the child was alright, and whether he might not prefer to sit in a private room. But according to the New Republic, the show of emotion only
