Topic: Jeff Sessions

2 chapters across the catalog

54: Lemonhead Delight
• 2:28:41 - 2:32:15

54: Lemonhead Delight

Jeff Sessions and the 1985 Voter Fraud Case

A Frontline clip details a 1985 case where then-U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions indicted civil rights activists Albert and Evelyn Turner for voter fraud in Alabama. The activists were helping black residents with absentee ballots. Although a jury found them not guilty, the hosts use this to show the long history of legal pressure surrounding absentee voting and how Stacey Abrams might face similar "persecution."

31: BIE BAE
• 39:25 - 44:19

31: BIE BAE

Jeff Sessions Congressional Testimony on BIE

Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before Congress regarding the Black Identity Extremist report. Under questioning from Karen Bass, Sessions struggles to name specific modern organizations targeting police, eventually citing the Dallas and Baton Rouge shootings as justification. The hosts critique Sessions' performance and the "casting" of him as a stereotypical Southern antagonist.