Pete Sessions: “there has been a repeated suggestion that somehow Alabama's brilliant, principled, courageous attorney general, who has…”

“there has been a repeated suggestion that somehow Alabama's brilliant, principled, courageous attorney general, who has stood firm time and again in serious types of disputes within the State legally, is extreme or radical or out of the mainstream. When you ask why and say show me something he has done that indicates that, they say, well, he struck down the Americans with Disabilities Act. As I explained earlier, he appealed a portion of that act that dealt with 4 percent of the cases, cases against States; and the Supreme Court agreed with him and struck down that small portion of the act. He was not against the disabled. He has great compassion for the disabled. It was a legal action taken by this Congress that upset and struck down legitimate States rights issues, and the Supreme Court, when reviewing it, agreed with Attorney General Pryor. This is the kind of argument that has been raised. There is no basis to say this man is extreme.”