http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marge-baker/jeff-sessions-relationshi_b_13941372.html
"Thirty years ago, a bipartisan majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be a federal judge after hearing testimony from those who had worked with him, who reported a pattern of racist statements, hostility toward civil rights groups, and his targeting of voting rights activists as a federal prosecutor in his home state of Alabama. Now, stunningly, Sessions — who has since become a U.S. senator — has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to be the U.S. attorney general, a position in which he would be responsible for enforcing civil rights laws throughout the country. Unfortunately, Sessions’ attitude toward civil rights seems not to have changed in the decades since he was accused of calling civil rights groups “communist-inspired” and “un-American.” Nowhere is this clearer than in his relationship with Breitbart News, the far-right outlet that presents itself as a platform for the so-called Alt-Right, a white nationalist faction that has rebranded itself for the internet age."
