Thursday, July 10, 2025

Tag: Jeff Sessions

Silenced twice by the U.S. Senate, Coretta Scott King’s words live...

What made history was a woman: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, bringing to life the words of another historic woman, Coretta Scott King, whose words will inform and inspire the resistance.

Senate silences Elizabeth Warren for quoting MLK’s widow

Still, Elizabeth Warren will not be silenced.

Senate confirms more members of Trump’s ‘legion of doom’

Sanders: “The nomination of Mr. Tillerson is one of the worst choices President Trump has made for his cabinet (and he’s made a lot of bad choices).”

NAACP vows to resist Sessions appointment as attorney general with civil...

EXCLUSIVE: NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and other members of the civil rights group rally outside Senator Jeff Sessions’ office and hold a sit-in.

Don’t judge Sessions by his cover

He wrote the book on discrimination.

The ‘Hidden Figures’ Jeff Sessions wants to keep in the shadows

A new movie reminds us of past racial injustice as a new administration tries to roll back the clock.

30 years later, the Senate should reject Jeff Sessions again

The Senate Judiciary Committee should be consistent and reject Sessions as attorney general, as it rejected him for a judgeship 30 years ago.

How Jeff Sessions profited from introducing a fracking exemption for drinking...

It remains to be seen whether Sessions will face questions about his support for the S.724 (“the Halliburton Loophole”) or his Energen stock sell-off.

ACLU & NAACP: Jeff Sessions unfit for post defending civil rights...

Trump’s pick has drawn widespread outrage because of Sessions’s opposition to the Voting Rights Act, support for anti-immigration legislation and history of making racist comments.

Trump’s Attorney General pick introduced first bill to exempt fracking from...

Nominated for a federal judge position in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, Sessions did not receive approval 30 years ago due to what congressional members deemed his troubling record on civil rights issues.

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A new far-right American party?

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Melting glaciers could lead to more frequent and explosive volcanic eruptions: Study

The process—already seen in Iceland—makes volcanic eruptions more frequent and powerful, according to new research conducted in the Chilean Andes.

The Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

Israeli minister proposes forced confinement of all Palestinians in Gaza amid global war crime...

Defense Minister Israel Katz unveils plan to imprison entire Gazan population in a guarded camp as human rights groups warn of ethnic cleansing.

First, a massive Medicaid attack, then come the midterms, then Republican annihilation

Is this country under attack by an authoritarian enemy?