Caribbean-American Congresswoman Yvette Clarke denounces Steve Bannon and Jeff sessions appointments
168 members of the US House of Representatives in urging President-Elect Donald Trump to remove White nationalist sympathizer Steve Bannon from his White House team. Caribbean American congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke is one of them who did so on Saturday, November 19.
“I am deeply troubled by the President-Elect’s decision to nominate Senator Jeff Sessions for the position of Attorney General,” said Clarke. Clarke is the daughter of Jamaican immigrants.
“As a political appointee to the Department of Justice who was sworn to uphold our laws, Senator Sessions referred to some of the nation’s leading civil rights organizations as ‘un-American.’ He also cited approval for the Ku Klux Klan, and demeaned his African American colleagues,” said Clarke.
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Clarke, who represents the largely Caribbean 9th Congressional District in Brooklyn, said members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee found these comments “alarming.” And they refused to confirm his nomination as a federal judge.
Sessions’ nomination was ultimately withdrawn after several Senate Republicans refused to back his candidacy.
She said the next Attorney General will have to address matters involving voting rights; immigration reform; the criminal justice reform; the prosecution of white-collar crime on Wall Street; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights.
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