Douglas Alexander: “If we had never heard of this individual and someone came today and said he is attorney general of the State of Alabama…”

“If we had never heard of this individual and someone came today and said he is attorney general of the State of Alabama, and he voluntarily scolded the State for still having interracial marriage words in the State constitution at a time when he really did not have to, who is enforcing the proceedings against a judge who has taken an overwhelmingly popular position about the Ten Commandments, who took to the Supreme Court a case that was adverse to the Republican Party of which he was a member, who advised the district attorneys they could not enforce a law about abortion that he personally disagreed with but he felt that the law required it, who wrote all of the schools that they could not pray before a football game, where is someone going to find anybody who has more clearly proven that he or she is able to take personal positions and subjugate them to a willingness to enforce the law? As I said earlier, this is not northern California or the Bronx we are talking about, even though those might be difficult positions in those States. He was taking positions that were contrary to virtually all of the people that he represented and against his own beliefs.”