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Hours after Carol Costello kicked off the media hysteria on Friday over President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of “controversial” Republican Senator Jeff Sessions (Ala.) to become Attorney General, CNN Newsroom afternoon anchor Brooke Baldwin hyped that Sessions will be bombarded with racism allegations from his past to the point that the chyron ruled he’s been “dogged” by such claims.
Later on in the same block at the top of the 2:00 p.m. Eastern hour, liberal commentator Angela Rye questioned Sessions’ qualifications on the grounds of his opposition to the Voting Rights Act and fretted about the future of the activist Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice.