Cory Booker to Testify Against Jeff Sessions After Being “Honored” to Work With Him on Civil Rights


The nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions to the position of Attorney General has particularly proven vexing to the left, with many liberals repeating the criticisms they make of Trump almost verbatim against him. The biggest surprise, however, came from New York Senator Cory Booker, who not only said he would oppose Sessions’ nomination but testify against him before Congress:
“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 started 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 told CNN on Tuesday morning shortly before Sessions’ hearing started that it was “consequential moment.”
Booker’s remarks contrast greatly with what he once had to say about Sessions, once claiming that he was “honored” to work with him as a civil rights activist:

Ted Cruz does a great job calling out Democratic hypocracy:

Source: CNN



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