In 1986, he was nominated for Federal District Judge. He was blocked by the Senate Judiciary Committee - based on, essentially, two charges: 1) that he had made an off-handed remark about the KKK once, and 2) that he once stated that the ACLU and the NAACP are (or have acted) un-American. After he was handed this set-back, Sessions didn’t whine about unfair treatment - he ran for Attorney General and won the seat of Senator Hefflin, who had voted against his nomination in committee. In 1996, he ran for U.S. Senate and won. Since then, he has been re-elected twice (most recently in 2008).Yes, InstaPutzen, you read that correctly. It was totally copacetic for Sessions to call the NAACP un-American in 1986 because a mere 20 years later -- presumably unbeknownst to Sessions? -- George W. Bush would sign a bill that RedState doesn't like.He suggests that the comment he made about the KKK (a joke about being bad because they use marijuana) was taken out of context. I take him at his word - because I actually know him, and actually know who he is. As for the second charge - again, context matters. But I can tell you one damned thing - the NAACP shoved down the throats of the American people and a totally gutless US Congress in 2006 an unconstitutional forced-gerrymandering bill under the name of re-authorizing the Voting Rights Act. We can only hope that the Supreme Court strikes parts of it down - and in my opinion, the actions of the NAACP were, in fact, un-American in that context, because the ends were political rather than promotion of civil rights. And one needn’t go any farther than the ACLU’s efforts with respect to GITMO detainees to see activity that one can legitimately argue undermines our security as a nation - and thus, could be labeled “un-American.”
Because they're crackers.
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