Jeff Sessions previews what ‘voting rights’ will mean in his Justice Department

In 1985, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), then a U.S. Attorney in Alabama, led the prosecution of three African American civil rights activists, accusing them of committing voter fraud by forging absentee ballots they collected through a registration drive. The case has since become a notorious example of Republican-led efforts to suppress votes in the name of “voter fraud.”

But during the first day of his confirmation hearing Tuesday, Sessions described the litigation as a “voting rights case.”...
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