Rights Group: Rights and Justice Reform

rights group: Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. attorney general, the civil rights group said, according to Guelph Mercury. 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. The national president of the NAACP and five others were arrested after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of Sen. 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. The sit-in at Sessions' office in Mobile, Alabama the city the Republican senator calls home began around 11 a.m. Brooks called Sessions a poor choice to lead the U.S. Justice Department. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.