Black lawmakers said Wednesday that Sen. Jeff Sessions at times has shown hostility toward civil rights, making him unfit to be attorney general, as a 1986 letter from the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., surfaced strongly expressing opposition to the Alabama senator. The Alabama Republican was rejected by the Judiciary panel in 1986 for a federal judgeship amid accusations that he had called a black attorney "boy" — which he denied — and the NAACP and ACLU "un-American." The lawmakers' testimony brought two days of confirmation hearings for Sessions to a close. Three men who had worked with Sessions in Alabama and Washington, all black, testified in support. Earlier in the day, Attorney General Michael Mukasey also came to Sessions' defense at the hearing.

Source: ABC News January 11, 2017 08:46 UTC