Sanders Urges Senate to Reject Sessions as nominee for U.S. Attorney General
January 12, 2017
Senator James Sanders Jr. (D-Rochdale Village, Far Rockaway) today urged the U.S. Senate to vote against President-Elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
"President-Elect Donald Trump has continued to convey a message of division rather than unity with appointment of Sessions and others to his administration," Sanders said. "Senator Sessions has a history of racist remarks and anti-civil rights views and votes."
The role of Attorney General would make Sessions the chief law enforcement officer and chief lawyer of the United States Government. in the past, Sessions has called civil rights groups like the NAACP, un-American and inspired by communism. He has also said the Ku Klux Klan was fine by him until he found out they smoked pot.
"It is not enough for me to voice my opposition to Sessions' appointment," Sanders said. "I urge all of my constituents to contact their U.S. Senators and ask them to vote against the appointment."
The U.S. Senators for New York are:
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer
(212) 486-4430
https://www.schumer.senate.
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
(212) 688-6262
https://www.gillibrand.senate.
