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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/...ttorney-general-senate-procedural-vote-234737
Jeff Sessions was given an award by the NAACP back at 2009
Straight up Donald Sterling status
But Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has been one of Sessions’ most loyal defenders, took to the floor Tuesday afternoon with a surprise: One of the attorney general nominee’s fiercest opponents during his confirmation fight – the NAACP – once gave Sessions its “Governmental Award of Excellence.”
The 2009 award was discovered when an aide was cleaning out Sessions’ Mobile, Ala., office as he prepared for his move to the Justice Department. The NAACP has vigorously opposed his nomination, with its president, Cornell Brooks, testifying against Sessions at his confirmation hearing in January.
Democrats have also gone after Sessions for awards he’s received that they’ve deemed controversial, including from groups critical of immigrants and Muslims. Sessions disclosed his NAACP award in a questionnaire supplement sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.
Jeff Sessions was given an award by the NAACP back at 2009
Straight up Donald Sterling status