{"id":28675,"date":"2017-01-03T16:53:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=28675"},"modified":"2017-01-03T16:53:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:53:25","slug":"1100-law-school-professors-nationwide-oppose-sessionss-nomination-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=28675","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,100 law school professors nationwide oppose Sessions\u2019s nomination as attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/a7743b86-adb4-11e6-8f19-21a1c65d2043\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Sari Horwitz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington Post\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>January 3, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group of more than 1,100 law school professors from across the country is sending a letter to Congress on Tuesday urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) for attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, signed by professors from 170 law schools in 48 states, is also scheduled to run as a full-page newspaper ad aimed at members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will be holding confirmation hearings for Sessions on Jan. 10-11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are convinced that Jeff Sessions will not fairly enforce our nation\u2019s laws and promote justice and equality in the United States,\u201d states the letter, signed by prominent legal scholars including Laurence H. Tribe of Harvard Law School, Geoffrey R. Stone of the University of Chicago Law School, Pamela S. Karlan of Stanford Law School and Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California, Irvine School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>[Trump\u2019s pick for attorney general is shadowed by race and history]<\/p>\n<p>The professors \u2014 from every state except North Dakota and Alaska, which has no law school \u2014 highlight the rejection of Sessions\u2019s nomination to a federal judgeship more than 30 years ago. Robin Walker Sterling of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, one of the organizers of the letter, said that 1,000 professors signed on within 72 hours. \u201cClearly, there are many, many law professors who are very uneasy with the prospect of Attorney General Sessions, and they are willing to take a public stand in opposition to his nomination,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The civil rights case that haunts Donald Trump\u2019s pick for attorney general<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/54c2a646-ca62-11e6-acda-59924caa2450\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe career of Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for attorney general, has been shadowed by his prosecution of the &#8220;Marion Three.&#8221; Sessions brought forth the voter fraud case as a U.S. attorney in 1985, and his critics alleged the charges to be racially motivated. (Video: Dalton Bennett\/Photo: Dalton Bennett\/The Washington Post)<\/p>\n<p>The law professors wrote that some of them have concerns about Sessions\u2019s prosecution of three civil rights activists for voter fraud in Alabama in 1985, his support for building a wall along the nation\u2019s southern border and his \u201crepeated opposition to legislative efforts to promote the rights of women and members of the LGBTQ community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.washingtonpost.com\/g\/documents\/world\/these-are-all-of-the-law-schools-represented-in-the-letter-sent-opposing-sen-sessions\/2263\/\">[These are all of the law schools represented in the letter sent opposing Sen. Sessions]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing in Senator Sessions\u2019 public life since 1986,\u201d the letter states, \u201chas convinced us that he is a different man than the 39-year-old attorney who was deemed too racially insensitive to be a federal district court judge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sessions\u2019s former chief counsel William Smith, who is African American, has said that people who call Sessions racially insensitive are \u201cjust lying. And they should stop the smear campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people making these allegations against Senator Sessions don\u2019t know him,\u201d Smith said in an interview. \u201cIn the last 30 years, they probably haven\u2019t spent 10 hours with him. I spent 10 years working with him . . . as his top legal adviser. There are not statements that he made that are inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/trumps-pick-for-attorney-general-is-shadowed-by-race-and-history\/2016\/12\/24\/1432cffa-b650-11e6-959c-172c82123976_story.html?utm_term=.a22e70afe17e\">Allegations of racial insensitivity <\/a>were made against Sessions at a 1986 Senate hearing when he was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be a federal judge. His nomination was defeated after being opposed by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, People for the American Way and the NAACP, which is now protesting his nomination for attorney general, calling it \u201cdespicable and unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of Sessions note that his nomination has been endorsed by Gerald A. Reynolds, a former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In a letter to the Judiciary Committee\u2019s highest-ranking Republican and Democrat, Reynolds, who is African American, said, \u201cSessions is a man of great character and integrity with a commitment to fairness and equal justice under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0Sarah Flores, a spokeswoman for Sessions, said Friday in response to the NAACP statement that Sessions \u201chas dedicated his career to upholding the rule of law, ensuring public safety and prosecuting government corruption.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMany African-American leaders who\u2019ve known him for decades attest to this and have welcomed his nomination to be the next Attorney General,\u201d Flores\u2019s statement said. \u201cThese false portrayals of Senator Sessions will fail as tired, recycled, hyperbolic charges that have been thoroughly rebuked and discredited. From the Fraternal Order of Police and the National Sheriffs\u2019 Association to civil rights leaders and African-American elected officials, to victims\u2019 rights organizations, Senator Sessions has inspired confidence from people across the country that he will return the Department of Justice to an agency the American people can be proud of once again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sari Horwitz Washington Post\u00a0 January 3, 2017 A group of more than 1,100 law school professors from across the country is sending a letter to Congress on Tuesday urging the 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