Civil rights groups and Democratic leaders oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, citing a history of intolerant positions on race. In a letter of testimony dated March 19, 1986, the late Coretta Scott King opposed Sessions’ nomination for a federal judgeship in Alabama. The letter became public last week.
King, the wife of slain civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., penned a nine-page letter to then-Judiciary Chairman Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) testifying against Sessions.
“My longstanding commitment which I have shared with my husband, Martin, to protect and enhance the rights of Black Americans, rights which include equal access to the democratic process, compels me to testify today,” she wrote.
