Senator Jeff Sessions: "We're Going To Do That Crack Cocaine Thing" (VIDEO)

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) continues to prove that he is not only a racist, but a blooming idiot too. During the Sotomayor hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee he said that he was looking forward to doing "that crack cocaine thing" with Senator Patrick Leahy and Wade Henderson, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. What, what?

Sessions said "Mr. Henderson, It's good to work with you. Senator Leahy and I are talking during these hearings, we're going to do that crack cocaine thing that you and I have talked about before."

After an awkward pause, Henderson laughed to himself and said, "Thank you, Senator, I appreciate that." While the Senate gallery laughed, and witnesses including NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former FBI director Louis Freeh snickered, Sessions sputtered, "Let me correct the record." Sessions explained: "I misspoke. We're going to reduce the burden of penalties in some of the crack cocaine cases and make them fair." Source: Huffington Post

So much for shock and awe! There is a thing called tact, which Senator Sessions has proven throughout the confirmation hearings and actually in previous years, he knows nothing about.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor Says Roe vs. Wade is "Settled Law"

And they are off! Senator Jeff Sessions came out swinging against Judge Sonia Sotomayor during his heated questioning of her positions. But his actions ring hollow to me because of his own questionable racist past. One thing is clear in this confirmation hearing, is the fact that Judge Sotomayor said Roe vs. Wade is settled law. She didn't dance around the issue, she was blatantly clear in her position. True to form, Senator Sessions proved once again, loud and clear, that he is a hypocrite. Considering his questionable racist past, he had the nerve to imply that Judge Sotomayor was less than honorable because of two positions she maintained in a stellar judicial career. He has essentially admitted that it is okay for a white man to harbor doubts, but problematic for anyone else. We have biases and prejudices, but it is A-okay for a white man like him to have them. He spent 30 minutes dancing around two issues, rather than looking at her entire career.

Twenty minutes into the second day of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings and the hot button political issues have already been addressed.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, (D-Vt.), offered the Supreme Court nominee an open forum to explain the most controversial remarks in her resume: That a wise Latina judge would come to a different -- perhaps better -- judgments than their white male counterparts.

Sotomayor, obviously ready for the query, stated "up front, unequivocally and without a doubt" that she did "not believe that any ethnic, racial or gender has an advantage in sound judging."

"I do believe every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge," she added, "regardless of their background or life experience."

From there, she made a strategic political move by referencing similar remarks from retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who likewise noted how gender affected her approach from the bench.

"The words I used, I used them agreeing with the sentiment that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was trying to convey... that both men and women were equally capable of being wise and fair judges," said Sotomayor. "That has to be what she meant, because judges disagree about legal outcomes all of the time. I shouldn't say all of the time, at least in close cases they do. Judges on the Supreme Court come to different conclusions. It can't mean that one of them is unwise despite the fact that people think that."

For the record, Senate Republicans weren't convinced. The committee's ranking member, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), pushed Sotomayor to explain her comments further, and the Senate Republican Communications Center sent out an alert to reporters that Sotomayor had made the wise Latina comments on multiple occasions, dating back to 1994. -- Sam Stein Source: Huffington Post

Of course, Fox News Chris Wallace and his panelists applauded Senator Sessions, but did you expect any less from them? All I have to say is that Senator Sessions is the same attorney who referred to a black attorney as a "boy." He is not credible in my opinion. Just a hypocrite and a "closet racist."

Glenn Beck Slams Senators for Softball Questions to Sonia Sotomayor Today, But She Wasn't Asked Any Questions on Opening Day, What an Idiot!

I am amazed that an idiot like Glenn Beck could be raking in millions of dollars from anyone. He slammed the "softball questions Judge Sonia Sotomayor" was asked today. Er, one problem Glenn, she wasn't asked any questions today, you idiot! He was visibly upset with the proceedings today. To prove his nonsensical point, he played a video montage of Democratic senators praising her in statements and not questions. Hello, the Republicans also gave statements, but they criticized the judge.

Who is his producer? They ought to be fired, along with Glenn Beck for being ignorant. The first day of the hearings is when the senators and nominees make opening statements.

Senator Jeff Sessions, With a Questionable Racist Past, Becomes the GOP's Point-Man for Confirmation Hearings for Next Supreme Court Justice

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is the new point man for the Republican Party in terms of the confirmation hearings for the eventual nominee to replace Justice David Souter. Senator Sessions has a troubled past where civil rights is concerned and personally, he leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. He was named the ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was left vacant last week after Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) switched parties. Sessions will walk a very fine line when he takes center stage to challenge President Obama's choice for the court. It's ironic that Sessions' own 1986 nomination to the federal courts turned into a racially tinged firestorm.

I wondered how a man like Sessions came to be selected to such a key position. Apparently his selection was the result of a compromise brokered with more senior Republican senators. Quite the opposite of moderate Specter, Sessions is a staunch conservative who opposes abortion rights and same-sex marriage. He promotes a strict view that judges should adhere to the original intent of the Founding Fathers in their rulings. To his credit, he has demonstrated a level of political independence -- publicly challenging former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' competency to run the Justice Department amid a series of scandals two years ago, as well as being instrumental in helping to kill President George W. Bush's proposed changes to the immigration law in 2007. Still, his seemingly racist past is still a problem for me, much like Jesse Helms, Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond.

Twenty-three years ago he was engaged in the fight of his life. He was appointed a U.S. attorney in Alabama in 1981 and was nominated to become a U.S. District judge by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. J. Gerald Hebert, a career Justice Department lawyer, testified that Sessions had once called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union "un-American" and "Communist-inspired." He said that they "forced civil rights down the throats of people." He sealed his own fate by saying such groups could be construed as "un-American" when "they involve themselves in promoting un-American positions" in foreign policy. He is said to have made remarks that he thought the Ku Klux Klan wasn't so bad until he found out that some of them smoked marijuana. He said these comments were made in jest. Right.

Sessions faced a heated round of questioning from Sen. Edward Kennedy, who called him "a throwback to a shameful era," and our current Vice President, Joe Biden. How ironic. The committee held four hearings during one of which Sessions pleaded that "I am not a racist." Hebert also testified that Sessions had called a white civil rights lawyer a "disgrace to his race" for litigating voting rights cases. His nomination failed in committee on a 10 to 8 vote, with Specter joining the nominee's original patron, Sen. Howell Heflin (D-Ala.) in dooming the nomination. In 1994, Sessions won a state attorney general's race, and then won election to the Senate in 1996 after Heflin retired.

Still, there's more throwback theater on Sessions. He had unsuccessfully prosecuted three civil rights workers, known as the "Marion Three," including Albert Turner, who was a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., on a case of election fraud for the 1984 election. He spent a long time interrogating black voters in predominantly black counties, finding 14 allegedly tampered ballots out of approximately 1.7 million ballots cast. The three civil rights workers were acquitted after four hours of jury deliberation. Civil rights groups charged that Sessions had been looking for voter fraud in the black community while overlooking the same violations among whites, at least partly to help reelect his friend Senator Denton.

So, Senator Jeff Sessions being the Republican Party point man, or gatekeeper, for the confirmation hearings for the next Supreme Court justice rings really hollow and is very troubling. If you ask me, he's a closet racist. An undercover racist, if you will. He has to walk a really fine line between being fair and coming off as the Jeff Sessions of old. He has a very troubling racist past and that's a pretty big pill to swallow. If he's the face of the Republican Party on the Judiciary Committee, then they are in worse shape that I thought.