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Jeff Sessions Is Dangerous and Should Not Be Confirmed as Trump’s Attorney General [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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6 NAACP Members Arrested in Protest of Jeff Sessions Bid for US Attorney General
Six NAACP members were arrested late Tuesday at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Mobile, Ala., office ending a sit-in to protest the nomination of Sessions (R-Ala.) as U.S. attorney general. According to CNN, five men and one woman, including NAACP President Cornell W. Brooks, were arrested and charged with criminal trespass in the second degree. The protesters…
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Donald Trump, Racist-in-Chief: Here Are the 10 Most Racist Things He’s Done So Far
We know that President-elect Trump is a racist—or, at the very least, racist-adjacent. Like no other before him, Trump won the 2016 presidential election because much of white America underestimated the level of white supremacy on which this country was founded. It is this supremacy that allowed Trump to claim that he didn’t know David…
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Head of Judiciary Committee Wants to Speed Up Jeff Sessions Confirmation Hearing
The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that he wants to move quickly on the hearing to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as U.S. attorney general. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that he plans to schedule the hearing before the inauguration, and noted that the hearings for Eric Holder and John Ashcroft also…
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Introducing Trump's 2016 Alt-Right All-Star Hate Team
Following an intense election season in which even the preseason scrimmages were filled with intense excitement, the American political system finally crowned the most unlikely candidate as its 2016 electoral champion. As always, the winning side gets to choose its own all-star team, and after the new president-elect took his celebratory victory lap, Donald J.…
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Who Is Jeff Sessions? 11 Facts About Trump’s Pick for Attorney General
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Jeff Sessions, an Alabama senator with a questionably racist past, to be attorney general under his administration. Sessions met with Trump on Wednesday, and shortly after the meeting, the Trump transition team issued a statement saying, “The President-elect has been unbelievably impressed with Senator Sessions and his phenomenal record as…
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Trump's Proving That Those Who Called Clinton "The Lesser Of Two Evils" Didn't Know What Evil Looked Like
So, I’ll be honest. After the shock of the election began to subside and the waves of the post-shock tsunami began to recede, there was a tiny, infinitesimal, Lilliputian part of me that began to look for silver linings. And, even, the subset of hope responsible for giving someone the benefit of the doubt. “Maybe Darth…
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Jeff Sessions Couldn't Be Judge Because of Racial Comments; Now He's Trump's Pick for AG
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Sen. Jeff Sessions, a conservative from Alabama whose nomination for a federal judgeship was rejected because of racially charged comments, to be the next attorney general of the United States. According to the New York Times, Sessions, a former prosecutor, was also being considered for the position of secretary of…