Former DOJ Civil Rights Head: Jeff Sessions Is Implementing an Anti-Civil Rights Agenda

July 24, 2024 | John Mudd

(DEMOCRACYNOW) Interview, August 14, 2017 — It’s been six months since Attorney General Jeff Sessions was sworn in as head of the Department of Justice. In that time, Sessions has managed to undo nearly every aspect of Obama’s civil rights legacy. We look at how Sessions is using the Justice Department to roll back decades of progress on civil rights, voting rights, LGBT rights and police reform. We speak with Vanita Gupta, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She is the former head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.

Source: Former DOJ Civil Rights Head: Jeff Sessions Is Implementing an Anti-Civil Rights Agenda | Democracy Now!

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