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Promised by the 14th and 15th amendment. amos ackerman, the first attorney general president grant appointed to lead the new justice department, zealously fought to protect black voting rights, directing u.s. attorneys that it was their, quote, special duty to initiate proceedings against all violators of the ku klux klan act. in the next few years, doj lawyers successfully prosecuted hundreds of ku klux klan leaders and others. those efforts helped to secure a brief period of meaningful black voting rights in some parts of the former confederacy. but the federal commitment to protecting black...

0 it's great to see you. i'm geoff bennett, and as we come on the air, there is a lot happening on this summer friday. this hour we will see president biden and the first lady at the g7 summit in the u.k. they're about to have a gathering of world leaders and they'll be joined by british royals. we'll have it for you live if it happens. back here at home, there is bombshell news on the trump doj, saying they seized the records of high democratic lawmakers and their families members all hunting down leaks about trump and his contacts with russia. >> obviously deeply suspicious of what the justi...

Heart of our democracy. but it is the 14th amendment to our constitution and its equal protection clause that has helped bring us closer to fulfilling that foundational principle and bringing us closer to a more perfect union. all cabinet officials have a responsibility to protect the interest of all of the american people, but there is no office for which the duty to apply the law equally is greater than that of the attorney general. in my capacity as chairman of the congressional black caucus, i urge you to reject senator sessions nomination. throughout our nation's history, attorney general...