African American civil rights activists and law school professors have expressed their intense opposition to US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general.
Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held a sit-in at the Alabama office of Sessions on Tuesday, condemning his history of controversial positions on race, immigration and criminal justice.
The protesters said they would occupy his office in Mobile until the 70-year-old Republican lawmaker withdrew as a candidate or they were arrested.
“Senator Sessions has callously ignored the reality of voter suppression but zealously prosecuted innocent civil rights leaders on trumped-up charges of voter fraud,” NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks said in a news release. “As an opponent of the vote, he can’t be trusted to be the chief law enforcement officer for voting rights.”
Meanwhile, over 1,100 law school…