Mo Brooks says Senate should confirm Sessions as next Attorney General

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y. listens to a question during a news conference.

. Jeff Sessions as US attorney general because he does not believe the Alabama senator will defend the “rights of all Americans” or “serve as an independent check on the incoming administration”.

Sessions’ Senate confirmation hearings, which ran into Wednesday after an eight-hour marathon session on Tuesday, have been contentious.

“I know that some of my colleagues are unhappy that I’m breaking with Senate tradition to testify against the nomination of one of my colleagues”, Booker testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sen. Sessions is openly hostile towards the concept of equal rights for minorities, which people like he and Ben Carson like call “special rights”.

On Wednesday, Sessions was no longer answering questions, but witnesses chosen by senators on both parties on the committee were testifying and answering questions regarding Sessions’ records.

Booker said that his colleague’s record “indicates that he won’t” pursue justice for women, defend the equal rights of gay and lesbian and transgender Americans, defend voting rights or defend the rights of immigrants as attorney general. Republicans have expressed strong support for Sessions and are expected to secure more than enough votes needed to confirm him as attorney general.

“Sessions’ actions in Alabama when he was younger, and now in his Senate years, reflect those of a man steeped in the imprints of racial inequality and discrimination”, the NAACP letter stated.

Could Schumer’s opposition block Sessions’ nomination?

It was revealed on Monday (9 January), the day before his hearing, that Alabama Senator Sessions did not tell the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) that he owns oil and mineral rights on 600 acres of land in his home state. Despite Schumer’s denouncement the prospects look good for Sessions as Republicans control 52 seats in the Senate compared to the Democrats 46.

He apologized for the oversight, but it, combined with the panel scheduling the legislators’ testimony at the very end of the session and requiring that statements be kept to seven minutes, prompted an angry comment from the third member of Congress to testify at the hearing. Sessions said that his job as a senator was different from the job of attorney general, and that he would enforce laws with which he disagrees.

Some political analysts say that Sen.