attorney boy: Cornell Brooks, the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP said the organization firmly believes that Sessions is unfit to serve as attorney general in the incoming Trump administration, according to Toronto Star. Brooks joined supporters and opponents of Sessions on the second day of confirmation hearings. Jeff Sessions is unfit to serve as attorney general as a 1986 letter from the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., surfaced strongly expressing opposition to the Alabama senator. The Alabama Republican was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 for a federal judgeship amid accusations that he had called a black attorney boy which he denied and referred to the NAACP and ACLU as un-American. Sessions' record conclusively demonstrates that he lacks the judgment and temperament to serve effectively as attorney general of the United States, Brooks said, saying the senator evinces a clear disregard, disrespect and even disdain for the civil and human rights of racial and ethnic minorities, women, the disabled and others who suffer from discrimination in this country. We take no pleasure in stating that, in the view of the NAACP, Sen.
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