Today, 100 faith leaders with People For the American Way’s African American Ministers In Action (AAMIA) program released a letter (below) to U.S. senators calling on them to vote against the confirmation of Sen. Jeff Sessions as the next U.S. attorney general.
The letter, which you can read below, details not only Sessions’ disturbing record on civil rights, but also his troubling actions as a senator. For instance, he voted against reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and applauded the Supreme Court decision gutting a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. As the faith leaders write, “Sen. Sessions’ unswerving hostility to the very rights he would be tasked with protecting makes him categorically unfit to take up this sacred work.”
“As faith leaders, our communities count on us to protect sacred rights and promote justice, and that’s why we’re called upon to oppose Jeff Sessions for attorney general,” said Minister Leslie Watson Malachi, PFAW’s Director of African American Religious Affairs. “Not only does Jeff Sessions’ history of persecuting civil rights leaders and organizations disqualify him from serving as attorney general, his actions as a senator that have endangered women’s lives and threatened our communities’ voting rights make clear just how unfit he is to serve as the attorney general, the ‘people’s lawyer.'”
