WASHINGTON ― President-elect Donald Trump?s pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, is withholding decades? worth of records from his career ahead of his Senate confirmation hearings early next month, according to an exhaustive report issued Friday by progressive advocacy groups.
The groups, which include Alliance for Justice and People for the American Way, reviewed the questionnaire that Sessions filled out for the Senate Judiciary Committee ― it requires complete documentation of employment history, published writings, interviews and speeches, among other things ― and found ?astonishingly deficient? responses. He left out major details from his years as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, from 1981 to 1993; as attorney general of Alabama, from 1995 to 1997; and as a first-term U.S. senator, from 1997 to 2002.
The gaps encompass the time, for example, when Sessions was nominated to be a federal judge in 1986 ― and then rejected after being deemed too racist.
He also omitted dozens of recent interviews, some of which included controversial statements he made. An October interview in which Sessions gave Trump a pass for making sexist comments, because ?everybody knows that Trump likes women? and ?uses this kind of talk,? was not cited in his questionnaire. A December 2015 interview in which Sessions says ?the predictions aren?t coming true? about climate change having disastrous effects is also not mentioned.
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how will they approve him with all that baggage ?
slippery slope here
