So once again, I am adding my personal encounters with
Sessions to the public record.
The comments I heard him make are three decades old, but his
consistent policy positions over the years speak volumes. He falsely charged
three African-American civil rights activists in Alabama, including a longtime
adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., with 29 counts of mail fraud, altering
absentee ballots and attempting to vote multiple times. The evidence showed
that these activists were simply helping elderly African-American voters
complete mail-in ballots. All were acquitted of every charge.
He has promoted the myth of voter-impersonation fraud
despite overwhelming evidence that it is exceedingly rare. He has ignored the
racial impact of voting restrictions, which have a well-documented negative
effect on minority communities, the impoverished and the elderly. He has
disagreed that people are sometimes denied the right to vote, and proclaimed
victory in the wake of Shelby County v. Holder, which struck down a key
provision of the Voting Rights Act. Sessions asserted that “Shelby County has
never had a history of denying voters” — willfully discounting the Alabama
county’s recent history of discriminatory voting changes.
Jeff Sessions, take your hood and go home.
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