Sessions is an unrepentant drug war extremist, hell-bent on ramping up the racist war on drugs.

Racist war on drugs...some would rather focus on Session's 30 year old positions more than his current ones? What about his work on the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act and bipartisan time spent with Dick Durbin on the issue?

John Kelly would seem to be just as much of an "enemy" then right? I mean the other day he said that the US needs a drug demand reduction program. Less people using drugs would seem like a good thing. Less people dying from drug overdoses would seem like a good thing.

Robert,

Did you seriously think he wouldn't get confirmed?

Sincerely yours,

heineken515
Allman Brothers Website Member

Robert,

Did you seriously think he wouldn't get confirmed?

Sincerely yours,

heineken515
Allman Brothers Website Member

No, and my post never said I thought he would not be confirmed.

Well let's see how he will react to marijuana laws first. The other stuff...heroin, meth etc...go to town, different class of drugs as far as I'm concerned.

But regarding Sessions being nominated...how about Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren digging deep into her bowels for this...

While in the meantime here is Coretta Scott King on Jeff Sessions...

And Martin Luther King's niece accusing Pocahontas of "Playing the Race Card".

http://truepundit.com/video-mlks-niece-accuses-elizabeth-warren-of-playing- the-race-card-in-senate-floor-charade/?platform=hootsuite

That was a good education. Thank You.

More Republicans voted against AG Eric Holder's nomination than voted for him, 21 against, 19 for - notably Jeff Sessions voted for Holder. Just saying, if he was such a racist, why would he support a black AG nominee and offer him praise?

Congratulations, Mr. Holder, on the nomination. You certainly bring excellent background and experience to the job as a federal prosecutor for a number of years and as a federal judge.
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So you do have the background. You have a great family. It's good to see your wife, a fine physician and an Alabamian and the sister of one of the leading -- one of the leading persons in changing the racial situation in the south as she led the fight to alter the segregated higher education policies that were so often conducted in the south. And those were unacceptable, and she did a very important, historic role -- played a big historic role in that and is so recognized today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/us/politics/16text-holder.html?pagewanted=32&_r=2

I hope Mr. Sessions has learned that after 40+ years of interdiction, prosecution, and incarceration, that perhaps our longest war, i.e. "The War on Drugs" is a colossal failure of epic proportions and divert far more resources to treatment of what is actually a health crisis and end the war on our own people.

Whether hard or soft drugs, we've wasted billions upon billions of dollars, destroyed countless lives, violated the rights of Americans, and engaged in illegal occupations of foreign countries for going on decades. All with little success at curbing the demand Americans have for their drugs.

I'm not too hopeful, however, as Sessions seems about as out of touch with the real world as most long serving politicians are.

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I hope Mr. Sessions has learned that after 40+ years of interdiction, prosecution, and incarceration, that perhaps our longest war, i.e. "The War on Drugs" is a colossal failure of epic proportions and divert far more resources to treatment of what is actually a health crisis and end the war on our own people.

Whether hard or soft drugs, we've wasted billions upon billions of dollars, destroyed countless lives, violated the rights of Americans, and engaged in illegal occupations of foreign countries for going on decades. All with little success at curbing the demand Americans have for their drugs.

I'm not too hopeful, however, as Sessions seems about as out of touch with the real world as most long serving politicians are.

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Your post is right on. It is now a long term losing proposition to think in terms of locking up as the answer. The solution you articulated will one day be realized hopefully - a health solution to a health crisis.

I hope Mr. Sessions has learned that after 40+ years of interdiction, prosecution, and incarceration, that perhaps our longest war, i.e. "The War on Drugs" is a colossal failure of epic proportions and divert far more resources to treatment of what is actually a health crisis and end the war on our own people.

Whether hard or soft drugs, we've wasted billions upon billions of dollars, destroyed countless lives, violated the rights of Americans, and engaged in illegal occupations of foreign countries for going on decades. All with little success at curbing the demand Americans have for their drugs.

I'm not too hopeful, however, as Sessions seems about as out of touch with the real world as most long serving politicians are.

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Your post is right on. It is now a long term losing proposition to think in terms of locking up as the answer. The solution you articulated will one day be realized hopefully - a health solution to a health crisis.

I wouldn't get my hopes up. Sessions is still living in the 1950's as far as what he believes in.

Racist war on drugs...some would rather focus on Session's 30 year old positions more than his current ones? What about his work on the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act and bipartisan time spent with Dick Durbin on the issue?

Oh, it certainly exonerates him from anything else he's ever said or done.

Racist war on drugs...some would rather focus on Session's 30 year old positions more than his current ones? What about his work on the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act and bipartisan time spent with Dick Durbin on the issue?

Oh, it certainly exonerates him from anything else he's ever said or done.

I see the concerns from his opponents, but I also think the picture painted of him gets muddier considering some of his words and actions from his time in the Senate. He has supported and voted for voting rights act extensions, but also taken issue with some aspects of it. He supported alternate versions of the violence against woman act in the senate, although he opposed the bill ultimately passed as law. He has praised and sometimes championed many people for their work on civil rights issues in the south during his time in the Senate, but admittedly he has other statements from previously in his life to make one question him. Arlen Specter said the only vote he regretted out of 10,000 was his vote against Sessions in 1986 because he has since had the chance to work with and know him. Clearly not the nominee the left would want, none of these nominees are the ones the left would want, I don't share the doomsday outlook on him being AG that some are saying - some of the nominees are more concerning I feel.

Racist war on drugs...some would rather focus on Session's 30 year old positions more than his current ones? What about his work on the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act and bipartisan time spent with Dick Durbin on the issue?

Oh, it certainly exonerates him from anything else he's ever said or done.

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Say for example when Sessions prosecuted a KKK member for murder, got the conviction which sentenced him to death?

I've noticed all the liberal hate groups don't mention that one.
Is it because that case, along with hundreds of others, destroys their claims of racism?

pretty sure Sessions wasn't the lead prosecutor on that case Mule.

Which ones are more concerning? And why?

Oh I just love leading questions don't you? Now why would you ask me this? Are you testing me? Surely you don't need me to tell you which cabinet appointees might cause alarm and why. But I will play.

On reasons qualifications, knowledge and experience in the position in which they are appointed...Betsy Devos obviously. Nikki Haley, in the words of a Democrat Senator who did vote for her "foreign policy is not her strength", well yeah - strange pick. Scott Pruitt is hostile towards the agency he is appointed to lead. Rick Perry, I actually think he performed well in his hearing, well enough to draw the support of a handful of Democrat committee members, his background is more diverse in energy than some might think, but his knowledge base for all things dept of energy are lacking. Those off the top of my head.