Bernie Sanders expressed his solidarity with colleague Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday, reading aloud on the Senate floor a letter from Coretta Scott King that blasted Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions’ record on civil rights, an act that got the Massachusetts senator shut down the previous night by the chamber’s Republicans. Warren was forced off the…
Al Franken savaged Ted Cruz on Wednesday, as the two participated in a Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Jeff Sessions’ nomination for attorney general. “Let’s talk about who is trying to impugn the record of another senator,” Franken said, responding to Cruz’s claim that Franken was smearing Sessions in disputing the Alabama senator’s record on…
In a series of early morning tweets on Thursday, Senator Chuck Schumer announced that he would vote against the confirmation of Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions. Schumer, the new leader of the Senate Democrats, made conciliatory gestures towards Trump in late December. But in recent days, he has pushed back hard…
A Jewish senator from Connecticut grilled attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions Tuesday about his ties to conservative Jewish activist and publisher David Horowitz, suggesting that Sessions could not defend all Americans because he accepted an award from a man with overtly anti-Muslim views. Sessions received the 2014 David Horowitz Freedom Center Annie Taylor Award for…
With only ten days remaining in his presidency, Barack Obama will take the stage tonight back home in Chicago and bid farewell to the American people. Among those present for the speech will be Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, two main supporters of Obama’s presidential campaigns and crucial movers in his administrations. Obama has indicated…
The largest American Jewish religious organization has “significant concerns” about Donald Trump’s nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. In a statement Monday morning, the central institutions of Reform Judaism, which represent roughly 1.5 million American Jews, called on Sessions to “enforce and interpret the law to promote justice and equality for all.” The…
The Alabama judge famous for installing a monument of the Ten Commandments outside his courthouse may soon be headed to Washington D.C. Judge Roy Moore, whose disregard for separation of church and state has drawn harsh criticism throughout his years on the state bench, is one of eight candidates interviewed so far by Alabama governor…
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