jeff sessions
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The Senate Intelligence Committee Let Jeff Sessions Off the Hook
The Senate Intelligence Committee didn’t do its job. No one, not one person on the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked the question Attorney General Jeff Sessions needed to answer: How long has he been working for Donald Trump while secretly making cookies in a tree?! How do you have the head Keebler elf, arguably the highest-ranking…
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The Root Is Live-Blogging Jeff Sessions' Testimony to Congress Because We Hate Ourselves
Hello, y’all. I’m Michael Arceneaux, contributor to The Root and perpetual masochist. As the headline suggests, I’m here to live blog Attorney General Segregation Now, Segregation Forever Jeff Sessions’ testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. I’m surprised Sessions’ testimony is starting late given…
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Hillary Clinton, Jeff Sessions and America’s Secret Slave System
Contrary to popular belief, slavery was never outlawed in the United States. This statement is not a debatable, half-twisted analysis or a cynical opinion. It is a fact. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution does not outlaw slavery; it only prohibits slavery in certain situations. It is entirely constitutional to turn drug dealers, gangbangers and…
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It’s On Now: Jeff Sessions to Testify in Public Hearing Tuesday
Attorney General Jeff “I Hate Weed” Sessions will testify in a public hearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday afternoon. But before we get too excited, remember that Sessions is a liar who met with Russians and completely forgot that he met with Russians during his confirmation hearing for attorney general. He…
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The Best Part Of The Comey Hearing Is Watching These White Men Throw Bags Of Piss At Each Other
Look, I don’t know what’s going to be the result of all of this. Does the Darth Cheeto get impeached or, at the very least, decheetoed? I don’t know! Does Jeff The Baby-Faced Bigot Sessions resign? Who knows! Do the Cavs sign James Comey tonight to give them some last-minute rim protection? I have no…
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Fingers Crossed: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Threatens to Quit as Tension With Trump Escalates
Two days before former FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, President Donald Trump’s world continues to unravel right before our very eyes. According to an unconfirmed report, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has threatened to quit his job amid rising tensions between him and the president. The friction…
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Report: 2 Democratic Senators Asked Comey to Investigate Jeff Sessions’ Meetings With Russian Ambassador
Two Democratic senators made three separate requests asking the FBI to investigate U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in response to concerns that he may have had an additional meeting with Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak that was not disclosed. CNN obtained copies of the letters Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.),…
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Jeff Sessions’ Senate Replacement Will Probably Be More Racist Than Jeff Sessions
When Donald Trump nominated Jeff Sessions—the love child of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Keebler elf—as attorney general of the United States, it was a bittersweet moment. On one hand, the Vulcan-eared bigot who once, according to sworn testimony, called a white civil rights attorney a “disgrace to his race” and the NAACP an “un-American”…
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House Democrats Demand Immediate Investigation of Trump After Release of Comey Memo
After news broke Tuesday of a memo by former FBI Director James Comey detailing President Donald Trump’s attempt to get him to stop the federal investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, House Democrats issued a demand for an immediate investigation into the president, the U.S. attorney general and top White House aides. All…
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Where Can Jeff Sessions Go? To Hell. When Can He Go? Now
During the confirmation hearings for Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, racist sum’bitch, his Republican colleagues went classic Americana on us as they quite theatrically conveyed their collective belief that the real burden of racism isn’t racism itself, but merely being accused of racism. There was Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who told committee members during opening remarks,…