Senator. A review of that record, including 2 days of hearings before the
Senate Judiciary Committee, demonstrates anything but the commitment to
the equal and impartial administration of justice and an independence
from the President that we must demand from the Nation's top law
enforcement officer. Senator Sessions' record spanning decades in public office reflects
hostility to important constitutional rights, hostility to laws
intended to protect people of color, hostility to laws intended to
protect women, hostility to laws intended to protect the LGBTQ
community, and hostility to laws intended to protect immigrants against
discrimination and violence. Senator Sessions has fought against civil rights efforts. He has
fought against protecting voting rights, and as a U.S. attorney,
Sessions tried to prosecute three civil rights workers who were helping
elderly and disabled African-American voters to cast absentee ballots. During his 1986 judicial nomination hearing, he called the Voting
Rights Act ``an intrusive piece of legislation.'' And in his testimony
to the Judiciary Committee, Senator Sessions would not commit to
continue the Justice Department's efforts to challenge restrictive
State voter ID laws. Senator Sessions has fought against comprehensive
immigration reform, against criminal justice reform, and against
commonsense gun control measures. As for a woman's right to choose, Senator Sessions has said: ``I
firmly believe that Roe v. Wade and its descendants represent one of
the worst, colossally erroneous Supreme Court decisions of all time.''
At his confirmation hearing, Senator Feinstein pressed him on his
statement, asking him whether it was still his view. ``It is,'' Senator
Sessions replied.
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