And like my constituents who
started sounding the alarm back in November, I am deeply concerned by
his agenda that would take our country backward. Senator Sessions has dismissed one of our bedrock civil rights laws,
the Voting Rights Act, as ``intrusive,'' while pushing restrictive
voter ID laws and fueling conspiracy theories about voter fraud. I
watched as he refused to work with a bipartisan majority of the Senate
on immigration reform and instead pushed extreme policies that would
punish the most vulnerable members of our communities. And that, by the
way, included DREAMers across the country who have never known another
home besides America. His personal passion on that issue and his years
of advocacy against commonsense immigration policies cause me great
concern about whether he would use the Department of Justice to pursue
his extreme anti-immigration agenda. On criminal justice reform, he beat back efforts from within his own
party to address the exploding race of incarceration across this
country. The injustice of these laws falls disproportionately on
communities of color.
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