Washington Post and Time magazine reporter Carl Bernstein on the Friday, November 18, Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN:
“That’s the sadness here. The Department of Justice -- great Attorneys General like Robert Kennedy -- the reason we have civil rights in this country and they have been enforced has been because of great Attorneys General. Jeff Sessions is not someone who has made his mark by becoming a great advocate for civil rights in this country. That’s the sadness of this.
“Look, there have been people who were in the Ku Klux Klan and Senators from Alabama -- namely Hugo Black -- who became a great liberal Supreme Court justice and was confirmed by the Senate after he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
“I don’t think we’re going to see -- I would love it if Jeff Sessions becomes a great advocate for civil rights for all Americans -- but he’s going to win in the confirmation hearing -- but you can't look at this appointment separate from the other four names we’ve been talking about and what that signal is to all Americans of where Donald Trump is going. And they are, quite frankly, poking in the eye.”
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