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DonViejo

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Thu Jan 12, 2017, 10:00 AM Jan 2017

Schumer Will Oppose Sessions for Attorney General

Source: The Daily Beast



Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has officially announced that he will oppose Sen. Jeff Sessions’s (R-AL) nomination for U.S. attorney general. “After reviewing his record and giving careful consideration to his answers during the hearing, I am not confident in Senator Sessions’s ability to be a defender of the rights of all Americans, or to serve as an independent check on the incoming administration,” he wrote in a Thursday morning statement. “I am also deeply concerned by his views on immigration, which I saw firsthand during the push for comprehensive immigration reform. For those reasons, I will oppose his nomination to serve as the next attorney general.” Weeks earlier, a slightly skeptical Schumer would not indicate whether he’d support his senatorial colleague’s nomination as AG.

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Schumer Will Oppose Sessions for Attorney General (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
Well shit, I would HOPE so. pangaia Jan 2017 #1
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