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The following is adapted from a speech Scott gave to the Libertarian Party of Utah on February 26, 2022. Just to get this out of the way first real quick: - Scott Horton for Antiwar.com Original

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You said that then, and then you got into office, why hasnt that happened under the trump administration. >> it was during the obama administration under eric holder. all the criminal referrals, and the justice department didnt do anything with it. white collar criminal lawyer. i think it is outrageous. i think -- >> you think the lack of action from the trump department was outrageous? >> hang on. i am very upset about obama and all those years when nothing is done. >> but i am asking you about...

2008 crisis. you said that then, and then you got into office, why hasnt that happened under the trump administration. >> it was during the obama administration under eric holder. and the justice department didnt do anything with it. white collar criminal lawyer. i think it is outrageous. >> you think the lack of action from the trump department was outrageous? >> hang on. i am very upset about obama and all those years when nothing is done. >> but i am asking you about who has power now. >> by ...

Folks theyre not worried about the devos nomination but wouldnt elaborate on why. one thing we know, her nomination will come before senator sessions nomination. by one vote that could give her the nomination. is nobody else shaky on this matter? >> yeah, a great question. a couple senators we may want to watch carefully going forward are dan sullivan, who is a republican from alaska, senator murkowskis colleague, maybe dean heller of nevada. its a big issue in those states. now a couple republi...

For the next four years or eight years if if he was relengthed. and then there was this dust up at a separate hearing. take a look. >> america needs an attorney general who is resolute and determined to bend the arc. senator sessions record does not speak to that desire, intention and will. with all that is at stake in our nation now with urgent need for love and healing i urge opposing the nomination. >> neil: that was senator booker who testified against his colleague jeff sessions and that ne...

Patrick sent a letter recommending against sessions nominee as ag. back in 1985 as a member of the naacp legal defense fund patrick helped defend three black voting rights activists whose sessions was prosecuting on voter fraud charges during his time as a u.s. attorney. patrick writes in his letter to use prosecutorial discretion to attempt criminalize voter assistance is wrong and should be disqualifying for any -- joining me now, thank you so much. you are just the two people that i would dre...

Naacp legal defense fund. two of them, albert and evelyn turner were very close lieutenants of martin luther king and they were prosecuted by senator sessions and when he was u.s. attorney. they were acquitted. but this has not been forgotten and, in fact, that case and other statements made by the senator was one of the reasons why in 1986 the senate judiciary committee would not move him forward when he sought to be a federal district judge. so, the question then is what has happened since the...

>> its a brilliant pick to put him in charge of a justice department that has been totally politicized. >> well, i think half the country would agree with you but half the country congressman is deeply fearful of what they saw as racist rhetoric from the campaign, you look at senator sessions past and, yes, i know there was three decades ago but at the time he had charged three civil rights workers including one of the leaders from the selma montgomery march for voter intimidation after black vo...