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Cory Booker: “If we can imagine Senator Sessions leading a Department of Justice in Michael Brown's Ferguson, Freddie Gray's…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
If we can imagine Senator Sessions leading a Department of Justice in Michael Brown's Ferguson, Freddie Gray's Baltimore, towns with rising hate crime, communities of vulnerable populations, and a democracy divided by voter suppression in this Twitter-age civil rights movement--we can imagine that.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker expresses concern about Sessions' potential leadership in civil rights issues.

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