Unprecedented: Booker to testify against fellow senator

Posted by | January 10, 2017 10:00 | Filed under: Politics

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Corey Booker will testify against Jeff Sessions.

This would be the first time in Senate history that a sitting senator will testify against another sitting senator for a Cabinet post during a confirmation.

“I do not take lightly the decision to testify against a Senate colleague,” Booker said. “But the immense powers of the attorney general combined with the deeply troubling views of this nominee is a call to conscience.”

Sessions’ confirmation hearings, which begin Tuesday, are expected to raise additional questions on old allegations of racism from his past. When Sessions was a 39-year-old US attorney in Alabama, he was denied a federal judgeship because the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony during hearings in March and May 1986 that Sessions had made racist remarks and called the NAACP and ACLU “un-American.”

Booker called Sessions’ record “concerning in a number of ways,” citing his opposition to bipartisan criminal justice reform and immigration reform, criticism of the Voting Rights Act and his “failure to defend the civil rights of women, minorities, and LGBT Americans.”

 

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9 responses to Unprecedented: Booker to testify against fellow senator

  1. anothertoothpick January 10th, 2017 at 10:05

    The question should be which direction would Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III move civil rights?

    • StoneyCurtisll January 10th, 2017 at 10:58

      If his name is any indicator……

  2. Obewon January 10th, 2017 at 10:38

    This is yet another reason why Rhodes scholar 165+ I.Q. (D-NJ) Senator Booker will run for POTUS. Guber Christie is so scared of Corey he wasted $30 M on a non-Tuesday special election held just 20 days before N.J.’s Guber reelection of Christie.

    New Jersey Special General Election, 10/13/2013
    (D) Cory Booker 54.9%
    (R) Steve Lonegan 44%
    Indy Edward C. Stackhouse 0.4% https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_New_Jersey,_2013

    • nola878 January 10th, 2017 at 12:23

      I’d really, really like to see Corey make a run for it. Don’t respect many politicians, he’s one that I do.

  3. StoneyCurtisll January 10th, 2017 at 11:05

    I hope Cory is successful…
    http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/09/politics/cory-booker-jeff-sessions-confirmation-hearing/index.html

  4. amersham1046 January 10th, 2017 at 11:27

    Cory Booker may not make many new friends but he will gain the respect of many more

  5. Suzanne McFly January 10th, 2017 at 11:41

    The hearing keeps being interrupted by protesters. He unfortunately will be confirmed, but at least it wasn’t without a fight.

  6. Mike January 10th, 2017 at 14:07

    Qualifications…
    Long and documented racist/mysoginist history …check
    Religious fundamentalist hostile towards other faiths and atheists …check
    Anti-intellect with lower IQ than Trump … check

    I predict a smooth and quick conformation…next…

  7. robert January 10th, 2017 at 17:09

    As Joe video would say,

    Take him behind the gym !!

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