Condoleezza Rice backs Sessions for AG: reportThe Hill, Jan 9, 2017, Mark Hensch
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she supports President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) for attorney general.
“[Sessions] is a man who is committed to justice and knows that law and order are necessary to guarantee freedom and liberty,” she wrote in a Monday letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), according to CNN.
“I know that Sen. Sessions will uphold the laws of our great country and will work to ensure that every person here in the United States is given the voice that is deserved,” added Rice, who served under former President George W. Bush.
Rice, who is from Alabama, added that Sessions has helped stop the “prejudice and injustice against the descendants of slaves” in their home state.
The former of secretary of State – and the first African-American woman to hold that role – also noted that Sessions rallied efforts to award the Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
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