Jeff Sessions 
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SOURCE: Protean
12/17/2021
Dead Man Running (Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Jim Crow Blues Again)
by Ryan Zickgraf
Mobile's current municipal elections combined the bizarre with the bureaucratic and institutional politics of racism.
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8/20/19
Jeff Sessions's Troubling Legacy
by Ronald L. Feinman
Unfortunately, Sessions’ ideas and policies live on through Trump adviser Stephen Miller.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
11-8-18
Matthew Whitaker is a crackpot
by Ruth Marcus
The acting attorney general doesn’t accept Marbury v. Madison.
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9/23/18
What’s So Familiar About Trump’s Claim that Jeff Sessions Is a “Dumb Southerner”
by Zachary J. Lechner
Americans—the president included—cannot help but love and hate the South at the same time; it is one of their favorite, most essential, pastimes.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
6-19-18
Jeff Sessions: DOJ Not Like The Nazis Because They Were Trying To Keep ‘Jews From Leaving’
“Well, it’s a real exaggeration, of course,” the attorney general said of the comparisons.
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6-18-18
Trump Is Terrorizing Children
by Richard E. Frankel
To this Holocaust historian what's happening is unconscionable.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
6-15-18
Sessions cites Bible passage used to defend slavery in defense of separating immigrant families
The verse that Sessions cited, Romans 13, is an unusual choice.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
3-1-18
Why 'Nevertheless, She Persisted' Is the Theme for This Year's Women's History Month
“‘Nevertheless, She Persisted’ is really about every woman who really had to use her tenacity and courage to accomplish whatever she set out to accomplish. It’s universal,” said Molly Murphy MacGregor, executive director and co-founder of the National Women’s History Project.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
1-5-18
President Trump Wanted to Fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions for Not 'Protecting' Him. The Constitution Says That's OK.
The framers of the Constitution left voters to be the final check and balance on the president on this kind of decision.
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9-6-17
If Jeff Sessions Is Serious About Cracking Down on Immigration Law Violators, He’s Going to Have to Arrest Millions of American Citizens
by Robert Brent Toplin
People who knowingly hire undocumented workers are also lawbreakers.
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SOURCE: NYT
1-9-17
The Voter Fraud Case Jeff Sessions Lost and Can’t Escape
He prosecuted civil-rights activists in 1985, but his case fell apart.
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SOURCE: NYT
11-21-16
Jeff Sessions’ Other Civil Rights Problem
by Thomas J. Sugrue
How he fought to preserve Alabama’s long history of separate and unequal education.
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