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Seems like Sessions has more issues besides voting rights and his comments on the KKK, this was regarding disparate funding of schools that concluded in 1997.
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Eight years after his failed nomination, Mr. Sessions was elected Alabama’s attorney general. While he held the position for only two years — using it as a steppingstone for his campaign for the Senate — he left an indelible mark. He used the power of his office to fight to preserve Alabama’s long history of separate and unequal education.
Nearly 30 of Alabama’s poorest school districts, with support from disability rights groups, civil rights organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit against the state. The most vocal critics of school reform, including the far-right activist Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, warned that it would bring “socialism” to Alabama.
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After nearly three years of litigation, Judge Eugene W. Reese of the Alabama Circuit Court found the inequitable funding unconstitutional and ordered the state to come up with a system to remedy the inequity.
Attorney General Sessions led the battle against the decision. He argued that Judge Reese had overreached. It was a familiar war cry on the segregationist right: An activist court was usurping the power of the state’s duly elected officials to solve the problem on their own. For the next two years, Mr. Sessions sought to discredit Judge Reese and overturn his ruling. In one of the twists of austerity budgeting in the mid-1990s, Mr. Sessions had laid off 70 lawyers in the attorney general’s office, and had to find outside counsel to handle the case. Lawyers working on contract for the office were to be paid no more than $85 per hour, but for the challenge to the equity case, the fee cap was lifted
Jeff Sessions is going to be Attorney General... PERIOD... #HillaryStillLost and Merry Christmas!
Well, Merry Christmas to you.
I'm waiting to see who the liberals will find in the Trump administration that isn't a racist.
They are so pathetic with the BS they even accused one of their own of gender bias for challenging Pelosi.
No policy for jobs. No success in domestic or foreign policy. Country divided, cop killings out of control, and everyone is a racist, who hates gays and women but democrats. They do love them some criminals though.
This isn't likely to appear on liberal media, so catch it where you can.
Truth has no boundaries that aren't man made.
I don't see the details on anything the post article claims that he prosecuted the KKK and was a champion for school desegregation while assistant US attorney for Alabama. Two things I do know is that he did not prosecute the hanging of Michael Donald by Clansmen and he did prosecute civil rights activists.
Sessions did not desegregate schools while Alabama Attorney General in fact he fought against it as recently as 1994, almost 50 years after the supreme court decision.
Last edited by Goodnight; 11-23-2016 at 08:56 AM..
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