Democrats Helpless as Sessions Heads to HillLiberals without the votes to torpedo AG confirmation prepare to 'dirty up' Alabama senatorby Brendan KirbySen. Jeff Sessions will be in the hot seat Tuesday as senators consider his nomination for attorney general — but, barring an unexpected revelation, Democrats appear to lack the ammunition to stop him.
Not that the Alabama Republican’s critics won’t try.
“If there isn’t any really new information, it’s hard to see how he loses.”
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have already promised a thorough examination of his record, and Sen. Chis Coons (D-Del.) told CNN on Monday that there are “many areas where his votes and his record, from civil liberties to civil rights to torture to criminal justice reform to immigration are starkly different from my own.”
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