Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., had some choice words for President-elect Trump’s pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions.
Sessions is “not a man of justice. He’s a man of injustice,” Johnson said Sunday morning on Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show “Politics Nation.”
The Alabama senator has a “history” of being opposed to civil rights laws that help protect people against discrimination, Johnson added.
Sharpton introduced the segment by detailing the allegations of racism that hurt Sessions’ effort to become U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Alabama in the 1980s.
Sharpton said Sessions “threatens all the work done” by former Attorney General Eric Holder and his successor, Loretta Lynch, because of his opposition to mandatory minimum prison sentences for nonviolent crimes and support for Trump’s proposed Muslim ban. He also criticized Sessions for past comments in which he said the NAACP was “un-American” and “Communist-inspired” and was fine with the Ku Klux Klan until he found out they smoked marijuana.
Johnson called on his fellow Democrats in the Senate to “hold this man’s feet to the fire” in the upcoming confirmation hearings.
