{"id":24478,"date":"2016-11-19T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24478"},"modified":"2016-11-19T12:17:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T17:17:06","slug":"huffpo-jeff-sessions-was-deemed-too-racist-to-be-a-federal-judge-hell-now-be-trumps-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24478","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo: Jeff Sessions Was Deemed Too Racist To Be A Federal Judge. He\u2019ll Now Be Trump\u2019s Attorney General."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/trump-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-racist-remarks_us_582cd73ae4b099512f80c0c2\">Jeff Sessions Was Deemed Too Racist To Be A Federal Judge. He\u2019ll Now Be Trump\u2019s Attorney General.<\/a> by Ryan Reilly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2015 The man who President-elect Donald Trump will nominate as the 84th attorney general of the United States was once rejected as a federal judge over allegations he called a black attorney \u201cboy,\u201d suggested a white lawyer working for black clients was a race traitor, joked that the only issue he had with the Ku Klux Klan was their drug use, and referred to civil rights groups as \u201cun-American\u201d organizations trying to \u201cforce civil rights down the throats of people who were trying to put problems behind them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Politico: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/11\/jeff-sessions-attorney-general-civil-rights-division-exodus-231646\">Sessions pick as AG could spark exodus from civil rights division<\/a> (&#8220;A former leader says Justice staffers are alarmed by the Alabama senator&#8217;s record on racial issues.&#8221; But there is a counterpoint in this article.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: Jeff Sessions Was Deemed Too Racist To Be A Federal Judge. He\u2019ll Now Be Trump\u2019s Attorney General. by Ryan Reilly: WASHINGTON \u2015 The man who President-elect Donald Trump will nominate as the 84th attorney general of the United States &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24482,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478\/revisions\/24482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}