“We are in a new era, a new era where campaign rules certainly don`t apply, and who knows what other rules don`t apply.” Quote by Lawrence O'Donnell
“The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?” StatesUseRunningUnitedUnited StatesRepublicanHearingSenateConfirmation 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