Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-02-06-pt3-PgS954_t3

That is who the Attorney General needs to be. The powerful never have a hard time finding somebody to represent them in court, but the poor or oppressed or those who don't have anybody else to stand up for them, they need a justice system that will treat them fairly, and they need an Attorney General who will embody that value. Three areas: civil rights, immigration, and torture. In the area of civil rights, Senator Sessions' record here as a Senator has been troubling to me. In the past, when he was considered for a judicial position, he declared that the voting rights laws were ``intrusive.'' He welcomed the ``good news'' when the Supreme Court in the last few years struck down, in the Shelby County case, parts of the Voting Rights Act.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
70%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
TIMOTHY KAINE
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
VA
Gender
Date
2017-02-06
Speech ID
CREC-2017-02-06-pt3-PgS954_t3
Paragraph
#1
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