Key senator (Racist-AL) blasts Kagan’s record at Harvard Law

[unhappycamper]

Key senator blasts Kagan’s record at Harvard Law


WASHINGTON — A top Senate Republican blistered the record and views of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan yesterday, saying the former dean of Harvard Law School relegated the military to second-class status at the school and contending her judicial stances appear to be “infected’’ by very liberal political views.

Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama and the ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee, delivered his criticisms from the Senate floor, giving a preview of the attack points Kagan will have to negotiate in her confirmation hearings, which start June 28.

Sessions offered a new twist on a frequent Republican criticism of Kagan — that she restricted military recruiters’ access to Harvard Law students, as a result of the university’s stance that the military’s ban on openly gay service members violated the school’s policy on discrimination. Kagan defenders have noted that recruiters were could still reach students through a student veterans group.

Through her policies, Sessions said, Kagan diminished the stature of the military and denigrated the services of soldiers.

“Perhaps to some in the elite, progressive circles of academia, it is acceptable to discriminate against the patriots who fight and die for our freedoms,’’ he said. “But the vast majority of Americans know that such behavior is wrong, it has arrogance about it, and really it is not ethical.’’



unhappycamper comment: Little Jeffie is indeed a key player.

Here he is with some of close friends:




I found this while looking for a pic:



ABOVE: Sen. Sessions (center) and his Republican colleagues discuss their strategy for blocking Barack Obama's judicial nominees.


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Monday, May 4, 2009

Steve Benen has this on Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Wingnutistan), who will replace Arlen "No Code" Specter as the ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Sessions got his start in Alabama politics as a U.S. Attorney. His most notable effort was prosecuting three civil rights workers, including a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., on trumped up charges of voter fraud.

Also during his illustrious career in Alabama, Sessions called the NAACP "un-American" because it, among other groups, "forced civil rights down the throats of people." A former career Justice Department official who worked with Sessions recalled an instance when he referred to a white attorney as a "disgrace to his race" for litigating voting rights cases on behalf of African Americans. Sessions later acknowledged having made many of the controversial remarks attributed to him, but claimed to have been joking. Yeah, "disgrace to his race" is hilarious.

That's not all. Thomas Figures, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in Alabama and an African American, later explained that during a 1981 murder investigation involving the Ku Klux Klan, Sessions was heard by several colleagues commenting that he "used to think they (the Klan) were OK" until he found out some of them were "pot smokers." Sessions once again acknowledged making the remark, but once again claimed to have been kidding. Figures also remembered having heard Sessions call him "boy," and once warn him to "be careful what you say to white folks."

All of this came to light when Reagan nominated Sessions to be a federal court judge. The Senate ultimately rejected the nomination, labeling Sessions an extremist. Regrettably, Alabama voters weren't troubled by his record in the slightest, and Sessions successfully ran for the Senate.

[Dr.Phool]

1. Sessions always reminds me of Henry Gibson, dressed up as a Nazi.

I forget the movie.

[HillbillyBob]

2. I can't recall what movie either, but sort of remember the character

Sessions on the other hand is like some evil leprechaun.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. Lulz. I knew who you were talking about the second you said "racist senator"

Jeff Beauregard Sessions...