But I do want to hold the President-elect
accountable for the words that he said on election night that he
pledged to the Nation that he would be a President for all Americans. That pledge, I believe, will ring hollow for tens upon tens of millions
of Americans with the nomination of the Secretary of Education, who is
against public schools, the nomination of the Secretary of Health and
Human Services, who has no plan for health care, and, finally, the
nomination for Attorney General. Rather than select someone who is championing and protecting, rather
than opposing and undermining the precious right to vote, the
constitutionally guaranteed right of privacy, criminal justice reform,
and the support for reform of the Nation's immigration system, it is
quite the contrary in the nomination of Senator Sessions--a person who
opposed Shelby County v. Holder in terms of the basis of trying to
constructively support voting rights, an individual who is hostile to
comprehensive immigration reform, and certainly someone who has
constantly not sought to fix, but has sought to undermine. So, for example, as a U.S. attorney, he was the first prosecutor in
the country to bring charges against civil rights activists of voter
fraud. But, Mr.
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