Dems Throw Temper Tantrum After Sessions Confirmed As Attorney GeneralDemocrats went into a mad frenzy Wednesday evening after the Senate confirmed Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as U.S. Attorney General, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.
The 52-47 vote fell along party lines, with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin representing the lone Democrat vote in favor of the Alabama senator.
Elizabeth Warren
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@SenWarren
If Jeff Sessions makes even the tiniest attempt to
bring his racism, sexism & bigotry into @TheJusticeDept, he'll hear from all of us.
7:30 PM - 8 Feb 2017
Other Democrats reacted with a similar tone.
“We need to continue to be brave, and to be strong,”
New Jersey Democrat Senator Cory Booker said in a video message over Twitter, telling his followers that he and others were up and fighting “around the clock against the Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions.
New York Democrat Sen.
Chuck Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that the confirmation of Jeff Sessions “turned my stomach.”
Vermont Senator
Bernie Sanders blasted the confirmation, saying that Sessions will not stand up to the President.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (
NAACP) issued a statement Wednesday evening, asserting that Session’s record as a public servant and attorney was “historically weak and questionable” on support for “voting rights, police accountability and the rights of immigrants and women.”
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