President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., for attorney general is deeply disturbing.
Sen. Sessions was against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which sought to protect the right of minority populations to vote in states in which that right had previously been restricted. As U.S. Attorney in Alabama in the 1980’s, he sought to prosecute civil rights workers for registering African-Americans to vote. In 1986, he was rejected by the Senate for a federal judgeship because of his expressed racist sentiments. And, currently, Sen. Sessions is one of the Senate’s strongest opponents of immigration reform.
Yet this is the man who will be charged with protecting the civil rights of all Americans. If the past is prologue to the future, with Sessions appointment as attorney general, the rights of all Americans would be in danger.
On behalf of the National Council of Jewish Women, we urge your readers to protect the rights of all Coloradans by contacting Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet and asking them to reject Sen. Sessions nomination for attorney general.
Marcia Helfant, Denver
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