"On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin confirmation hearings for Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general.
It will be the first of a slew of hearings Senate Republicans are trying to ram through this week, many for ultra-wealthy nominees whose tangled financial interests are nowhere near being fully vetted by ethics officials.
If anyone requires a thorough vetting, it’s Mr. Sessions, the Republican senator from Alabama who trails behind him a toxic cloud of hostility to racial equality, voting rights, women’s rights, criminal justice reform and other issues at the heart of the Justice Department’s mandate. Yet in their eagerness to act on his nomination, Senate Republicans seem unconcerned that Mr. Sessions, who has made appropriate financial disclosures, has failed to turn over dozens — possibly hundreds — of documents that the committee specifically requests in its standard questionnaire, including transcripts of speeches, interviews, opinion pieces and other public remarks.
Mr. Sessions, who has suggested that judicial nominees may be committing crimes when they withhold relevant information from the Senate, now gives laughable explanations for the truck-size holes in his own résumé. He has said that there is no record of the vast majority of interviews he has given over the years, but a quick Google search disproves that."
What Are You Hiding, Jeff Sessions? - The New York Times: ""
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