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A Look Into Sessions Track Record

How much has Sessions done?

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A Look Into Sessions Track Record
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Jeff Sessions, the senator from Alabama, has gotten quite a bit of negative press over the last couple of months. Those who dislike Mr. Sessions seem to favor calling him racist. Policies aside, he has done a lot for the African-American community in the past. Sessions has filed cases to desegregate schools when he was a U.S. attorney.

While It seems the number of cases may have been exaggerated, it appears that he had no ill impact on the desegregation of schools. Another piece of information I came across is his part in the prosecution of KKK member Henry Francis Hays. This man was heavily involved with the KKK and actually brutally murdered a young black male. Sessions was not acting attorney on this particular case, but he did have a major impact on this case. Sessions pushed for Hays to be punished to the full extent of the law according to the nationalreview.com. In the end, Hays was indeed sentenced to death, perhaps Hays wouldn't have been justly punished had Sessions not been active in his role. There was also a 7 million dollar civil judgment against the KKK, some claim it to have ruined the KKK in Alabama. While the KKK is not totally broken in Alabama, as evident by an online search showing KKK activity in certain places in Alabama, the civil judgment was still carried out and it adversely impacted the KKK with Sessions' help according to local15tv.com. "We needed some horsepower, which the feds through Jeff Sessions provided. Specifically, we needed the investigative power of the FBI and the power of the federal grand jury. I reached out to him (Sessions) and he responded, tell me what you'll need and you'll have it," said Chris Galanos, the DA during the 1980s. Some outlets make the claim that sessions wanted to drop the case, I have yet to see any actual proof of this, it seems just to be word of mouth. According to washingtonpost.com Sessions was involved in six civil rights enforcement, sessions stated himself that his main role was to "provide support".

This article was not written as an attempt to gain supporters for Sessions, but an attempt to influence views of a man whose track record seems to show he is not racist.

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