“My Worst Political Move of the 2015 Year. John Boehner inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to address the joint session of Congress.” YearsMovingPoliticalWorstCongressAddressesSessionJointsInviting Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Senator Jeff Sessions is reportedly on the [Donald] Trump shortlist to be either the next Secretary of Defense or the next Attorney General of the United States.” StatesNextUnitedUnited StatesTrumpDefenseSecretarySenatorsSessionAttorney Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn`t.” StatesFactsUnitedUnited StatesSenateSenatorsSession Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.” CourtSenateRejectedCommitteesSessionNominationsJudiciary Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.” YearsDoneRejectedCommitteesSessionChairman Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“He sits beside the ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy who voted against Jeff Session`s nomination in that committee in 1986.” DemocratCommitteesSessionNominationsRanking Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried to get Jeff Sessions` nomination through that committee, but he couldn`t.” PresidentRepublicanFormerCandidatesSenateCommitteesSessionChairmanNominationsJudiciary Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions` nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a prosecutor in Alabama, he called the NAACP Un-American.” RepublicanDemocratRejectsSessionNominationsAlabamaProsecutorNaacp Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“He addressed a black lawyer as "boy". That`s why Jeff Sessions couldn`t get through Senate confirmation process under the old rules followed by Democrats and Republicans.” ProcessBlackBoysRepublicanDemocratLawyerSenateSessionConfirmation Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“If Jeff Sessions had been an editor of something like "Breitbart", Ronald Reagan wouldn`t have even nominated him.” IfsEditorsSession Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Someone who traffics in much more than what Jeff Sessions said back then will be with the president every day in the White House as his senior strategist.” SaidHousePresidentWhiteWhite HouseTrafficSeniorSessionStrategist Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
