Pete Sessions: “I was talking about Justice Janice Rogers Brown and her record of courage and ability on the Supreme Court of…”

“I was talking about Justice Janice Rogers Brown and her record of courage and ability on the Supreme Court of California. I note an article by Nat Hentoff. It is in the Jewish World Review. Mr. Hentoff is a noted civil rights lawyer, of courage and independence, who writes with clarity and is a civil libertarian who believes in American civil liberties, who has a long record of it. He is not someone who is slavishly part of any political agenda and is willing to speak the truth wherever he sees it. Sometimes I agree with it; sometimes I don't. But he has written an article about the filibuster of Janice Rogers Brown. He talks about the ``Action Alert'' from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that ``accuses [Janice Rogers Brown] of having extreme right-wing views'' and ``issuing many opinions hostile to civil rights.'' She has been a victim of civil oppression and segregation. She is a true champion of civil rights, as I think I indicated in my remarks. He goes on to show ``how prejudicially selective the prosecution of her is by the Democrats, the NAACP, People for the American Way, and her other critics.'' He says: To my knowledge, not one of her attackers has mentioned the fact that in the case of People v.…”