June 29, 2010 3:27 pm ET filed under Video
Sen. Sessions Undermines GOP's Main Attack On Kagan
June 29, 2010 12:12 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Sen. Sessions Is The One "Unconnected To Reality" Regarding General Kagan And The Military
During his initial questioning of Solicitor General Kagan, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) accused General Kagan of being "unconnected to reality" as she commented upon her policies regarding military recruitment during her tenure as Dean of Harvard Law School. However, Sen. Sessions is the one unconnected to reality as General Kagan's remarks reflected the truth of the sequence of events at Harvard Law.
June 29, 2010 11:12 am ET filed under Blog
Sen. Sessions Undermines GOP's Main Attack On Kagan
June 29, 2010 9:17 am ET filed under Fact Check
GOP Senators Nag General Kagan About The Same Old Thing
Republican opening statements during the confirmation hearing for Solicitor General Elena Kagan contained nothing surprising. As expected, Republican Senators repeated many of the same talking points they've been spouting since Justice Stevens announced his retirement. But no matter how often they're repeated, these talking points are disingenuous, misleading, or blatantly false.
June 16, 2010 4:47 pm ET filed under Blog
Sen. Sessions Attacks Kagan Over Harvard Islamic Studies Program
June 11, 2010 4:13 pm ET filed under Blog
Sen. Sessions Distorts Kagan's Memos On Child Pornography Case
June 11, 2010 3:39 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Sen. Sessions Distorts Kagan's Statements About Child Pornography Case
In a June 10, 2010 briefing, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) argued that, as a clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall dealing with a child pornography case, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan indulged in "a rather personal view, not the dispassionate legal view that you would expect from a law clerk" because she expressed "shock" at the government's actions in the case. In reality, Kagan advised letting the child pornography conviction stand.
June 01, 2010 2:36 pm ET filed under Blog
Sen. Sessions Flip Flops On SCOTUS Confirmation Timeline
May 17, 2010 10:07 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - May 16, 2010
On Sunday's political talk shows, Republicans echoed the fierce, false criticisms of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan that we heard throughout last week. Newt Gingrich claimed that Kagan is "anti-military." Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) parroted Gingrich's lie that the military's prohibition on homosexuals began under President Clinton. And Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) claimed that Kagan wants the government to ban books. Meanwhile, Gingrich advanced false narratives about health care reform and President Obama's attitude toward free enterprise, and Sen. McConnell attacked the Recovery Act.
May 12, 2010 12:47 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Sen. Sessions Repeats Falsehood That Solicitor General Kagan Is Anti-Military
During an interview on On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) reiterated the false Republican talking point that as Dean of Harvard Law, Solicitor General Kagan barred military recruiters from campus. In reality, then-Dean Kagan followed the rules of the school while still allowing military recruiters access to students through the Veteran Students' Association.
May 11, 2010 6:30 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Top Republicans Hypocritically Target Solicitor General Kagan's Experience
Republican Senators Mitch McConnell, Jeff Sessions, and John Cornyn have all criticized President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, for her lack of experience as a judge. However, in 2005, all three Republican leaders touted President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers, who also lacked both judicial experience and Kagan's impressive credentials.
May 10, 2010 5:24 pm ET filed under Blog
GOP Will Treat Solicitor General Kagan Like Justice Sotomayor
May 07, 2010 11:15 am ET filed under Fact Check
Sen. Sessions Delivers GOP Talking Points On Potential SCOTUS Nominee
In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) repeated a litany of false Republican talking points about the president's upcoming Supreme Court nomination.
March 12, 2010 1:36 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Sen. Sessions Repeats Debunked Claim About Christmas Bomber
On March 12, 2010, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) penned a column in the New York Daily News in which he claimed that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab stopped talking after he was read his rights. In reality, the failed underwear bomber was Mirandized after he stopped talking and later resumed talking to the authorities.
March 12, 2010 11:17 am ET filed under Blog
Sen. Sessions Perpetuates Falsehood That Abdulmutallab Stopped Talking After He Was Mirandized
December 09, 2009 4:14 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Sen. Sessions Mixes Up "Fact" And "Fiction"
On December 8, 2009, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) published a misleading "Fact vs. Fiction" item on his website. Keeping with the GOP's habit of manipulating the facts and resorting to standard talking points, it is unsurprising that Sessions' list is nothing more than scare tactics and false information.
December 08, 2009 7:58 pm ET filed under Blog
Overlooking All Of Summer, Sen. Sessions Praises Sen. Grassley's Bipartisan Work On Health Care
September 15, 2009 11:58 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Foxx: Look, A Black Person Disagrees With Obama!
July 15, 2009 11:40 am ET filed under Blog
Judge Sotomayor Flusters Sen. Cornyn On Equal Opportunity
July 13, 2009 12:37 pm ET filed under Blog
Sen. Hatch Inadvertently Defends Sotomayor's Ricci Ruling Against Conservative Attacks
When Republicans try to paint Frank Ricci as the victim of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's "empathy" problem, it's important to remember that the conservatives on the court were the real judicial activists in the case.
June 30, 2009 12:57 pm ET filed under Blog
Why Aren't Republicans Accusing Justice Alito Of Prejudice?
Nobody is questioning Justice Alito's intentions in the Ricci case, and rightly so. Why should Judge Sotomayor be treated differently than a white man?
June 12, 2009 1:50 pm ET filed under Fact Check
The GOP's Twisted Timeline For SCOTUS Nominees
In their latest display of political gamesmanship, Senate Republicans are decrying a 48-day period between Judge Sotomayor's nomination and the commencement of her Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings as too short. Yet 48 days was the exact length of time between Judge Roberts' nomination and the start of his committee hearings. Here are the highlights:
June 03, 2009 9:33 am ET filed under Fact Check
Sen. Sessions Apparently Not So "Troubled" By Sotomayor's Comments On Race
Appearing on Meet The Press on May 31, 2009, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions said he was "troubled" by the widely publicized "wise Latina" comment made by Judge Sonia Sotomayor in 2001. However, just two days later, Sen. Sessions met personally with Judge Sotomayor and failed to ask for an explanation. Apparently, he's not so "troubled" after all.
May 29, 2009 10:53 am ET filed under Blog
Republicans To Begin "Raising Concerns" About Judge Sotomayor's Nomination This Weekend
Contradicting their repeated insistence that they will need "adequate time" to examine Judge Sonia Sotomayor's record to prepare for her confirmation hearings, Republicans plan to spend the weekend laying the groundwork for opposition - despite the fact that, three days after her nomination was announced, Republicans still don't know "what specific concerns they will raise."
May 18, 2009 11:40 am ET filed under Blog
Sen. Sessions Walking Back Opposition To SCOTUS Filibuster: "I'm Not Gonna Rule It Out"
Four years ago, Sen. Sessions was vehemently opposed to filibustering judicial nominees. Now, he says, there might be a "new standard."
May 13, 2009 10:11 am ET filed under Blog
Sen. Sessions: No "Political Attacks" On Obama's Court Pick
In a Washington Post op-ed, Sen. Sessions said he hopes his Republican colleagues won't "create a caricature" of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
May 06, 2009 2:56 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Jeff Sessions vs. Jeff Sessions: Filibuster
On May 6, 2009, Sen. Jeff Sessions told the Associated Press that he refused to rule out filibustering President Obama's Supreme Court nominee.
May 01, 2009 10:27 am ET filed under Fact Check
In Their Own Words: The Majority's Prerogative
In 2005, many Republican Senators went so far as to claim the filibuster of judicial nominees was unconstitutional. Now four years later, with President Obama's first Supreme Court appointment looming, will they remain consistent in their position or commit one of the most blatant acts of hypocrisy in the 220-year history of the United States Senate?
