Senator Jeff Sessions, a known KKK ally and white supremacist, is now within striking distance of running the Department of Justice. There is so much at stake. It’s time to #StopSessions.
Call your Senators today and ask them to stop Jeff Sessions.
Sen. Sessions would undo any progress made by the Obama administration on police accountability, protecting gay, lesbian, and transgender rights, defending voting rights, and implementing criminal justice reform. Sessions has already promised to change the direction of the Justice Department away from civil rights issues toward an extreme xenophobic, racist, misogynistic agenda.
Stopping Sessions from becoming Attorney General will be difficult, but we can do it if Democrats stand together and we manage to peel away two Republican votes. Direct contact from constituents is one of the most effective ways of influencing our elected representatives. That means our Senators need to hear from you directly and now.
Take action to stop Sen. Sessions from becoming Attorney General.
Sen. Sessions actively opposed — and voted against — the DREAM Act and Comprehensive Immigration Reform.1 Sessions also voted to ban marriage equality, and he voted against extending hate crimes laws to include gender and sexual orientation.
Sessions viciously opposes civil rights. He has opposed the Voting Rights Act, calling it “a piece of intrusive legislation.”2 And he’s publicly applauded the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act in 2013.3
Please make a quick call to your Senators to stop Jeff Sessions.
Sessions has also been hostile to women’s rights. He voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. He’s aggressively anti-choice. And Sessions recently defended Donald Trump’s recorded bragging about grabbing women by their genitals without consent by saying, “I don’t characterize that as sexual assault.”4
In 1986 the US Senate rejected Sessions’ nomination for a federal judgeship when they heard testimony that he had referred to a black prosecutor as “boy” and said that he thought the KKK was fine.5 And, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights notes that Sessions has received awards from groups designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-Muslim hate groups.6
Our communities deserve someone better to serve us as the Attorney General. Jeff Sessions is unfit to be the nation’s Top Cop.
Call your Senators NOW and ask them to #StopSessions.
Thank you for all you do and ¡adelante!
– Matt, Favianna, Oscar, Erick, Reetu, Erica, Felipe and the Presente Action team.
Sources:
1. “SESSIONS SPEAKS ON DREAM ACT.” Jeff Sessions, Floor Statements. December 6, 2010.
2. “Jeff Sessions on Civil Rights.” On The Issues.
3. “Jeff Sessions’ Voting Rights Record Is So Bad That Common Cause Will Oppose Him.” The Huffington Post. January 5, 2017.
4. “It’s not clear if Jeff Sessions thinks grabbing a woman by the crotch is sexual assault.” The Washington Post. November 18, 2016.
5. “10 things to know about Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general.” The Washington Post. November 18, 2016.
6. “Five Chilling Ways Senator Jeff Sessions Could Attack Immigrants As Attorney General. The Huffington Post. January 6, 2017.
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