A recent POLITICO story on Senator Jeff Sessions notes the Senate's rejection of his nomination to the federal bench in 1986:
"During the 1986 confirmation process, Sessions was accused of unfairly targeting black civil rights workers for election fraud charges as a federal prosecutor. A black lawyer under Sessions in the U.S. attorney's office accused him of saying he thought the Ku Klux Klan was 'OK' until he found out some of its members were 'pot smokers.'
"But the confirmation process also revealed that Sessions had once called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union 'un-American' and 'communist-inspired.'
"Sessions . . . told POLITICO that those comments were made in a private conversation he had with an African-American on his staff in the U.S. attorney's office--and that they were taken out of context."
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