Jeff Sessions

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• SOURCE: Protean
  12/17/2021
  

  Dead Man Running (Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Jim Crow Blues Again)

  by Ryan Zickgraf

  Mobile's current municipal elections combined the bizarre with the bureaucratic and institutional politics of racism. 

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• 8/20/19
  

  Jeff Sessions's Troubling Legacy

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Unfortunately, Sessions’ ideas and policies live on through Trump adviser Stephen Miller.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-8-18
  

  Matthew Whitaker is a crackpot

  by Ruth Marcus

  The acting attorney general doesn’t accept Marbury v. Madison.

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• 9/23/18
  

  What’s So Familiar About Trump’s Claim that Jeff Sessions Is a “Dumb Southerner”

  by Zachary J. Lechner

  Americans—the president included—cannot help but love and hate the South at the same time; it is one of their favorite, most essential, pastimes.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  6-19-18
  

  Jeff Sessions: DOJ Not Like The Nazis Because They Were Trying To Keep ‘Jews From Leaving’

  “Well, it’s a real exaggeration, of course,” the attorney general said of the comparisons.

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• 6-18-18
  

  Trump Is Terrorizing Children

  by Richard E. Frankel

  To this Holocaust historian what's happening is unconscionable.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-15-18
  

  Sessions cites Bible passage used to defend slavery in defense of separating immigrant families

  The verse that Sessions cited, Romans 13, is an unusual choice.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  3-1-18
  

  Why 'Nevertheless, She Persisted' Is the Theme for This Year's Women's History Month

  “‘Nevertheless, She Persisted’ is really about every woman who really had to use her tenacity and courage to accomplish whatever she set out to accomplish. It’s universal,” said Molly Murphy MacGregor, executive director and co-founder of the National Women’s History Project.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  1-5-18
  

  President Trump Wanted to Fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions for Not 'Protecting' Him. The Constitution Says That's OK.

  The framers of the Constitution left voters to be the final check and balance on the president on this kind of decision.

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• 9-6-17
  

  If Jeff Sessions Is Serious About Cracking Down on Immigration Law Violators, He’s Going to Have to Arrest Millions of American Citizens

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  People who knowingly hire undocumented workers are also lawbreakers.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-9-17
  

  The Voter Fraud Case Jeff Sessions Lost and Can’t Escape

  He prosecuted civil-rights activists in 1985, but his case fell apart.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-21-16
  

  Jeff Sessions’ Other Civil Rights Problem

  by Thomas J. Sugrue

  How he fought to preserve Alabama’s long history of separate and unequal education.