Jeff Sessions' time is up as Attorney General. On Tuesday, Jeff Sessions testified before the House Judiciary Committee to answer more questions about the investigation into the Trump administration’s ties with Russian government officials and his role as Attorney General.1 During the testimony, it was strikingly obvious Sessions is full of lies. When U.S. House Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) asked him questions about a report on Black Identity Extremists, he all of sudden could not clearly answer any question. Sessions claims he did not read the report. Then Representative Bass further asked if he was aware of organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis that could be described as “White Identity Extremists.” Sessions responded: “I don’t follow the question, it’s not coming to me at the moment.”2 We don’t need more testimonies from Sessions to know he is not fit to be Attorney General nor hold any license to practice law.
Over 46,000 Color of Change members have signed the petition calling on the Alabama State Bar to rescind Session’s right to practice law. Dear friend, your name is missing. Will you sign today? Sessions cannot fairly carry out justice. He can’t be trusted to know what is best for our communities and he has a long legacy of racism and discrimination in his work in the legal field.
Until justice is real,
Scott and the rest of the Color of Change team
P.S. Check out the original email we sent :
References
1. "Top takeaways from Jeff Sessions' testimony before the House Judiciary Committee," USA Today, 11-14-2017
2. "Democratic congresswoman grills Jeff Sessions over FBI report on 'black identity extremists'," The Week, 11-14-2017
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Jeff Sessions is not fit to be Attorney General,
and with his racist ideology, he has no place to
in the country to serve justice.
Alabama State Bar must take away
Jeff Sessions' license to practice law.
Dear friend,
Jeff Sessions is a liar, a racist, and a white supremacist. Last week, Sessions testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and one thing is clear -- enough is enough. Sessions’ entire political career has been to undo major progress hard fought and won from decades-long work by Black people and communities of color. And he continues to spread so many untruths just to maintain power that keeps him in close proximity to the ugliest and most dangerous White House administration.Sessions does not represent and never will represent any symbol of fairness and justice.
Jeff Sessions holds a prominent law license from the state of Alabama that gives him the power to be Attorney General. He should not be the Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice and he has no place in this country to practice law.It is long overdue to finally shut down his power and access as well as stop the harm that he continues to inflict. And the way we’re going to do it is by getting him disbarred from the Alabama State Bar. Bar associations are responsible for issuing licenses for lawyers to practice but just as importantly ensuring that the integrity of how lawyers use their role is upheld.
Jeff Sessions has spearheaded Trump’s entire Law and Order agenda. As Attorney General, Sessions has built a false, racist narrative that crime has exponentially increased across the U.S. Right after being sworn in as Attorney General, Sessions said national crime rates were the highest they’d ever been--but it was a lie. According to FBI data, the national rate was decreasing.1 Sessions is following the eerie and distorted words of Trump who said, “In many of our biggest cities, 2016 brought an increase in the number of homicides, rapes, assaults, and shootings.”2 This in and of itself is a violation of the Alabama Bar Code of Ethics -- Sessions is actively engaging in dishonesty as a chief law enforcer. This ignites fears and sets up a big platform for ruthless policies that directly impact Black people and many other marginalized groups.
This white supremacist narrative of Black people and immigrants as violent and dangerous has led to extreme changes and further violates another ethics code of being prejudice and bias. Sessions was determined to bring back the war on Black people by restarting the “War on Drugs.” This includes pushing prosecutors to issue the most severe punishment against people who commit drug offenses, giving local police departments more power to arrest and surveil with access to militarized equipment. He’s against any form of police accountability and has eliminated consent decrees. Sessions even went after Sanctuary cities by threatening to withhold federal funding for refusing to comply with harsh immigration laws. And Jeff Sessions reversed the ban on federal private prisons. Sessions said, “the ban on private prisons hurt the prison system’s ability to meet the future needs for housing.”3 This, of course, is all code for locking up more people for profit. This list goes on and on, and it will continue as long as Sessions has the power to keep his license.
We already know who Jeff Sessions is. It is not just lies -- but he is unapologetic in wanting to dismantle democracy and destroy the rights of all our communities. Plain and simple he is a White man with a lot of privilege and power he doesn't deserve. He is incapable of upholding the integrity of his position in the U.S. Department of Justice. Jeff Sessions has abused his power long enough.
Until justice is real,
Scott, Rashad, Arisha, Scott, Anay, Clarise, Enchanta, Malaya, Kristen, Katrese, and the rest of the Color Of Change team
References :
1. "The ACLU says Trump’s executive order on crime aims to “stop national trends that don’t exist”," Quartz, 02-09-2017https://act.colorofchange.org/go/9697?t=15&akid=8168%2E1942551%2Etgvsu2
2. "Sessions calls rise in crime a ‘dangerous permanent trend,’ but FBI data shows rate consistently falling," Yahoo News, 02-09-2017 https://act.colorofchange.org/go/9698?t=17&akid=8168%2E1942551%2Etgvsu2
3. "Justice Department Keeps For-Profit Prisons, Scrapping an Obama Plan," New York Times, 02-23-2016https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7973?t=19&akid=8168%2E1942551%2Etgvsu2
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