Trump’s attorney-general pick allegedly signaled an assistant U.S.
attorney working for him in the ’80s not to prosecute two whites who
murdered a black man in Alabama.
By Kenneth Lipp
Today Jeff Sessions
claims credit for prosecuting a lynching by the Ku Klux Klan as proof
that he is not a racist, but an attorney working for him claimed 30
years ago his boss wanted to drop the case.
Confirmation hearings will begin Tuesday for Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, and they’re sure to include questions that were raised when he was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986. His confirmation was derailed largely by the testimony of Thomas Figures, an assistant U.S. attorney in Alabama when Sessions was U.S. attorney.
Figures's claims that Sessions made racist remarks have resurfaced recently, but overlooked is a more serious allegation that Sessions sought to go soft on investigating the lynching of a black man by two Klansmen.
Figures testified to several
examples of his former boss’s alleged racial insensitivity before the
Senate Judiciary Committee, saying Sessions had once told him that “he
believed the NAACP, the SCLC, Operation PUSH, and the National Council
of Churches were all un-American organizations teaching anti-American
values.”
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Source: The Daily Beast
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