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Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 84th Attorney General of the United States from 2017 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he was previously a U.S. Senator from Alabama from 2007 to 2017. During his tenure in the Senate, Sessions was known for his strong stance on immigration and law enforcement issues, advocating for stricter immigration policies and supporting various measures to combat drug trafficking and crime. He also served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama from 2001 to 2002.

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Jun 30, 2010

I think her experience is, by any standard, thin.

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Jun 30, 2010

I think I used Senator Hatch's formulation of it.

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Jun 30, 2010

I absolutely do. In fact, you know, much is made over time about the network, you know, the networking opportunities going to an Ivy League will provide students and be shut out of that, when everyone goes through a Career Services Office…

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Jun 30, 2010

It was not a little bitty matter. It was not a matter that just slid into reality.

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Jun 30, 2010

A vote to confirm Ms. Kagan as a Supreme Court Justice is a vote to harm the interests of our military.

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Jun 30, 2010

I think we'll all have to think about that as this nomination goes forward.

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Jun 30, 2010

They want to know that the next nominee to our Supreme Court will be faithful to that Constitution even if they don't like it.

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Jun 30, 2010

I believe an activist--and I think I am quoting Senator Hatch, although he would not give me credit for it--he would not take credit for it.

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Jun 30, 2010

We are doing our best to be cooperative.

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Jun 30, 2010

It is certainly not going to help, sir.

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Jun 30, 2010

She was a leader, she was a driving force in the effort to remove the military from full and equal access.

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Jun 30, 2010

I do believe that your actions, I think your actions there were not consistent with the law.

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Jun 30, 2010

But fundamentally I think it is not activism to reverse a bad decision, and the Court should do that.

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Jun 30, 2010

The oath is that you would impartially do your duty with equal right to the poor and the rich.

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Jun 30, 2010

Your service to the country and to protect the Constitution is not valued by these institutions.

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Jun 30, 2010

I thank our military witnesses for, with clarity, stating the true facts of what happened at Harvard.

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Jun 30, 2010

I think they just simply returned to the plain words of the document, and there was evidence that the people who drafted it had that in mind.

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Jun 30, 2010

I guess I am in favor of good ideas coming from wherever you can get them.

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Jun 30, 2010

This is a very, very significant matter.

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Jun 16, 2010

So not having fallen off the turnip truck last week, I am of the view that this signals a decision not to deploy what was virtually ready to begin to be deployed, to put it off in the future.

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Jun 16, 2010

I worry about it. I don't feel like we have this right.

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Jun 16, 2010

The plans were to take that three-stage missile, develop it into a two-stage missile and be able to deploy it in 2015, 2016 in Central Europe that could provide an additional protection against missile launches from Iran and perhaps a…

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