<https://theintercept.com/2016/11/18/career-racist-jeff-sessions-is-donald-tr...> [] This is not the first time Sessions has earned a presidential nomination as an administrator of justice. In 1986, President Reagan tapped him to serve as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, but at the time the Senate found him too racist for the post, and he became the second nominee in 50 years to be denied an appointment. During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sessions was pressed on accusations that he had called a black prosecutor “boy” and a white civil rights attorney “a disgrace to his race.” He was called out on his comment that he thought the Ku Klux Klan “was OK until I found out they smoked pot” and that the NAACP and ACLU were “trying to force civil rights down the throats of people.” (Sessions denied calling the prosecutor “boy” but not the other comments.) [] Among other positions, Sessions opposed the Violence Against Women Act, the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and the expansion of anti-hate legislation to include sexual orientation. He fought the removal of the Confederate flag from public buildings, immigration reform, and criminal justice reform. [] Va aggiunta la sua proposta di emendamento all'Electronic Communications Privacy Act per cui i provider avrebbero dovuto fornire a un government official il contenuto di una comunicazione elettronica anche solo in "caso di emergenza", su dichiarazione di quest'ultimo e senza mandato. <https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/11/18/sessions-nomination-emergency-exceptio...>