Members of Pennsylvania’s legal community have expressed serious misgivings about President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Alabama senator and conservative hard-liner Jeff Sessions as the nation’s 84th attorney general.
Sessions’ positions on issues like civil rights and immigration don’t sit well with some: His critics point to statements in which he called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and American Civil Liberties Union “Communist-inspired” and “un-American” organizations, and claims from former colleagues that he approved of the Ku Klux Klan until learning that its members smoked marijuana.
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