Blast From The Past - News Coverage Of Sessions Hearing

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Check out the youthful Biden, too.

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Blast From The Past: '80s News Coverage Of Sessions Controversy
By Brian Beutler - May 8, 2009, 6:07PM

As we reported earlier this week, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) was spiked in 1986 from becoming a district court judge by the Republican controlled Senate Judiciary Committee. Sessions was known to be, at least, insensitive to minorities, and his nomination was considered too controversial to advance. Now that he's the ranking member on that very committee, it's news all over again. But it was a big deal then, too.

Yesterday we obtained over 500 pages of testimony from the 1986 hearings, and are still dutifully scouring them for interesting nuggets.

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1. Sessions (R-AL)

:rofl: That would be Capt. Jefferson Beauregard Session III (White Hood Birth of a Nation but Gone With the Wind R-AL) you carpetbaggers.

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2. Also now head GOP member of the judiciary. That's scary. nt