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Justice Reform: Rights and Protest Nomination

justice reform: The organization held the demonstration to protest Sessions' nomination by President-elect Donald Trump, criticizing Sessions' record and views on civil rights, immigration, criminal justice reform, and voting rights enforcement, according to Brandon Sun. We have an attorney general nominee who does not acknowledge the reality of voter suppression while mouthing faith in the myth of voter fraud, NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said by phone earlier in Tuesday's protest. Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. attorney general, the civil rights group said. Brooks called Sessions a poor choice to lead the U.S. Justice Department. Tuesday. The sit-in at Sessions' office in Mobile, Alabama the city the Republican senator calls home began around 11 a.m. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.