{"id":25816,"date":"2017-01-10T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T18:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25816"},"modified":"2017-01-10T10:35:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T18:35:23","slug":"resisting-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/10\/resisting-a-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Resisting a Racist!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I explained in today’s Open Thread, there is nothing Democratic Senators can do to block the confirmation of Jeff Sessions (R-KKK) as Attorney General and head of the renamed Department of Injustice.  Democrats changed the Senate Rules in 2013 to require only a simple majority to confirm cabinet appointees and judges (except SCOTUS), because Republicans were blocking them all.  However, at least some brave protestors disrupted Sessions’ confirmation hearing.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Moments before the start of Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing on Tuesday, chaotic scenes broke out in the Senate Judiciary Committee, as two demonstrators dressed as Ku Klux Klan members shouted in protest against Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general. They were swiftly escorted from the room.<\/p>\n

"You can’t arrest me! I’m white!" one of the protesters said as officials removed them from the hearing.<\/p>\n

The incident comes as civil rights groups urge Senate Judiciary Committee members to reject Sessions’ nomination, many of whom point to his past efforts to block black judges<\/a> from serving on the federal branch as evidence he is not fit to lead the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

Breaking with longstanding senate tradition, Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, will join civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia, on Tuesday to testify against Sessions’ appointment…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Mother Jones<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

This had just happened, so this was the best video I could find.<\/font><\/p>\n