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Defense Department Opposed Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Laura Lefler Herzog, Bob Corker, Rape Amendment, Daily Show, John Thune, Jeff Sessions, Al Franken, Johnny Isakson, Republicansforrape, Mike Stark, Dod, Republican, The Crooked Dope, Franken Rape Amendment, republicansforrape.com, Jon Stewart, Defense Contractors, Anti-Rape, Saxby Chambliss, Arbitration, Politics News

When thirty Republicans lined up against an amendment that would have required defense contractors to allow their employees access to U.S. courts in c...

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Senate Passes Amendment To Prevent KBR and Halliburton From Getting Away With Raping Employees (Literally)

Howie Klein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jeff Sessions, Rape, Kbr, Halliburton, Al Franken, Jamie Leigh Jones, Politics News
Howie Klein

Al Franken offered the amendment because of a KBR employee, age 19, who was raped by a bunch of KBR workers in Iraq. After she was rescued, she was informed that she couldn't take KBR to court.

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Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Detention, Biometric Identification, 2006 Immigration Bill, Illegal Immigration, Numbersusa, Jeff Sessions, Immigrants, Immigration, James Sensenbrenner, Jim Webb, Deportation, 2007 Immigration Bill, Obama Administration, Peter Schey, DREAM Act, Illegal Immigrants, Tom Daschle, McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill, Racism, Visas, Earned Legalization, Undocumented-Immigrants, Legalization, Immigration Debate, 1986 Immigration Reform, John McCain, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Homeland Security, La Raza, Xenophobia, Amnesty, Lou Dobbs, E-Verify, Chuck Hagel, Jon Kyl, Ted Kennedy, John Cornyn, Immigration Reform, John Ashcroft, Rahm Emanuel, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, 2005 Sensenbrenner Bill, Lulac, Organized Labor, Broken Borders, Chuck Schumer, Mexican Immigration, Torture, National Identification Card, Politics News
Anis Shivani

The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.

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Obama's Second Hundred Days

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Supreme Court, Latina, Sessions, Burris, Empathy, A Tale of Two Cities, Al Franken, Reform, Dickens, Sarah Palin, Second 100 Days, Muslim, Latino, Sotomayor, Health Care, Analog Television, Birthers, Age of Foolishness, Budget, Democrat, Congress, Sanford, Democrats, Barack Obama, Transparency, Rahm Emanuel, First Hundred Days, Health, Sonia Sotomayor, Credit Card, Souter, Healthcare, Senate, Polls, Mark Sanford, Cap and Trade, Gates, President Obama, Cia, Speech, Second Hundred Days, Jeff Sessions, David Souter, Flu, Obama, Democratic, Iraq, Media, Scotus, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, Television, Iran, Gay Rights, Nuclear Weapons, Baucus, Russia, Beer Summit, Arlen Specter, Credit Card Reform, House, Specter, Photo Op, Msm, Beer, Franken, Worst of Times, Charles Dickens, Roland Burris, Gay, Mainstream Media, Waterloo, Best of Times, First 100 Days, Torture Photos, Chris Weigant, Palin, Cairo, Max Baucus, Bipartisanship, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."

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Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Tom Coburn, Ethnicities, Ethnicity, Identity Politics, Sonia Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions, Racism, Lindsey Graham, Jon Kyl, Politics News
Terrance Heath

Watching some members of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week was like a crash course in what I've often referred to as "self evasion of the mind."

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Sessions To Vote Against Sotomayor

Associated Press | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jeff Sessions, Supreme Court, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Senate Judiciary Committee, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he'll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Alabama Sen...

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This Week in Blackness: "2009 is the New 1952"

Elon James White | Posted 08.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jeff Sessions, Pat Buchanan, Elon James White, Lindsey Graham, This Week in Blackness, Post Racial America, The Truth, Comedy News
Elon James White

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Bigotry and Racism in America: What Harvey Left Us

Dan Agin | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions, Racism, Lindsey Graham, Bigotry, Living News
Dan Agin

We need the past to inform us why we're the way we are. Without that we will never change. And without change our hatreds may eventually destroy us.

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Sam Stein

Leahy To GOP: "Stop The Racial Politics" On Sotomayor

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sotomayor Klu Klux Klan, Jeff Sessions, Leahy Bigot, Sessions Leahy, Supreme Court, Sotomayor Hearings, Patrick Leahy, Judiciary Committee, Leahy Sotomayor, Politics News

The two top officials on the Senate Judiciary Committee left niceties at the door when they held a joint appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" Sund...

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John King Should Ask Sen. Jefferson B. Sessions a Few Questions About Race (UPDATED)

Stephen Kaus | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jeff Sessions, John King CNN, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Stephen Kaus

We have spent the past week listening to Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III condescend to Sonia Sotomayor. As Bill Maher said Friday, it was like the white male Republicans suspected the cleaning lady from their club of stealing something.

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Judiciary Committee: Sharp Minds -- and Empty Suits

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Al Franken, Sotomayor Confirmation, Jeff Sessions, Dianne Feinstein, Herb Kohl, Lindsey Graham, Amy Klobuchar, Jon Kyl, John Cornyn, Tom Coburn, Sheldon Whitehouse, Benjamin Cardin, Sonia Sotomayor, Orrin Hatch, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

These Senators spend their precious minutes before the cameras posturing, except for when they're pandering. Except for when they're plodding.

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Jeff Sessions: "We're Going To Do That Crack Cocaine Thing" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Hearing, Sessions Sotomayor, Sessions Doing Crack Cocaine, Jeff Sessions, Senator Sessions, Sessions Crack Cocaine, Politics News

Senator Jeff Sessions simultaneously shocked and cracked up the Sotomayor hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday afternoon when he...

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The Stench Of Conservative Desperation

The Progress Report | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions, Lindsay Graham, Jon Kyl, Politics News
The Progress Report

As Sotomayor's elevation to the Court grows increasingly inevitable, conservatives are the ones melting down.

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Punching the Tar Baby

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Confederacy, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Mark Levin, Right Wing Media, Congress, Audra Shay, Peggy Noonan, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Jeff Sessions, Right Wing, Hispanics, Democrats, Democratic Party, Uncle Remus, David Brooks, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, David Frum, Racism, Hate Speech, Black, Glenn Beck, Republican Party, Right-Wing Extremism, Republicans, Politics News
Larry Gellman

From the moment Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the court, the Right wing made it clear that they were going to play the only card left in the Republican deck -- the race card.

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The Sotomayor Hearings - Branding the Neo-Confederates

Paul Loeb | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wise Latina, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Jeff Sessions, Sotomayor Confirmation, Sonia Sotomayor, Klan, Latino Vote, Republican Racism, Politics News
Paul Loeb

If you read the liberal blogosphere, you know about Senator Sessions's history of dubious racial statements. If you're following on most of the mainstream media, you don't.

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My Interview with the Man Who Spent 16 Years in Jail Because Sonia Sotomayor Denied His Appeal

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Jeff Sessions, Russ Feingold, Jeffrey Deskovic, Scotus, Patrick Leahy, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

Jeffrey Deskovic's case highlights some startling flaws in the US court and prison system, and a potential weakness in Sotomayor's judicial style: her history of preferring procedure over innocence.

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Sonia Sotomayor and the Real Meaning of Republican Talking Points

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Wise Latina, Latino, US Senate, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions, Racism, White, John Roberts, Jon Kyl, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Asserting that a judge's background and experience influence their decision is not unlike asserting that the Pacific Ocean is wet.

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At Sotomayor Hearings, Some Like it Simple

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Cornyn, Gop, Charles Grassley, Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Affirmative Action, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor Confirmation, Jeff Sessions, Orrin Hatch, Chuck Grassley, Jon Kyl, Republicans and Race, Race Relations, Republicans and Sotomayor, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

Any judgment that differs from mine, to the extent it differs from mine, does not reflect reality. I am White Guy.

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Sessions' Hate Speech

Tom Gilroy | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Tiller, Jeff Sessions, Voter Intimidation, Socialism, Progressives, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Tom Gilroy

The point of putting a 'racially insensitive' white man up to question a Latina has nothing to do with bad GOP planning and everything to do with intimidation.

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Can White Men Shed Their Prejudices Better Than Others?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sodomy, Supreme Court, Homosexual, White Privilege, Hearings, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions, Lewis Powell, Senate Confirmation, Prejudice, Race, Politics News
Nathaniel Frank

The implication of Sessions' inquisition was that, as a white male with no distinguishing "heritage" to speak of, he and his ilk can make judgments totally free of feelings, belief, or experience.

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The Republicans, Sotomayor, and Cheney

Sandy Maisel | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Cornyn, Mark Sanford, John Ensign, Filibuster-Proof Majority, Al Franken, Sarah Palin, Sonia Sotomayor, James Carville, Orrin Hatch, Jeff Sessions, Mary Matalin, Republicans, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Sandy Maisel

Sessions' repetition seemed like piling on. What was the point? Was he trying to catch Sotomayor in a contradiction? To gain an admission? To score points back home?

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Sam Stein

Sessions Becomes The Subject Of Sotomayor Hearings

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sessions Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions, Race Sotomayor, Race Supreme Court, Sotomayor Hearing, Sessions Race, Politics News

The confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor have become, in a small but significant way, a referendum on the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary ...

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Sotomayor Challenge Blows Up in Sessions' Face

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Wise Latina, Sessions, Jeff Sessions, Judge Miriam Cedarbaum, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Sotomayor Hearings, Politics News

Ouch! Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), seeking to discredit Judge Sonia Sotomayor's judicial philosophy, cited her 2001 "wise Latina" speech, and contr...

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Can Baseball Survive the Supreme Court Confirmation Process?

Nan Aron | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Baseball, John Roberts, Jeff Sessions, Judge Sotomayor, Politics News
Nan Aron

It's time to stop the baseball analogies now. If we don't quickly divorce baseball from this Court, it will ruin baseball.

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Schumer Says Reform by Labor Day, While Cowardly Democrats Vote with Sessions

Frank Sharry | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Immigration Reform, President Obama, Al Franken, Independent Voters, Appropriations, Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Sessions, Immigration, Amy Klobuchar, Immigration Debate, Jared Polis, Politics News
Frank Sharry

Why are Democrats letting Senator Sessions set the agenda with empty, irrelevant, "build the fence bigger" immigration amendments?

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