Jeff Sessions Wanted to ‘Drop the Case’ Against KKK Lynching, Attorney Testified

JUSTICE?

Trump’s attorney-general pick allegedly signaled an assistant U.S. attorney working for him in the ’80s not to prosecute two whites who murdered a black man.

Published Jan. 9 2017 1:15AM EST

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Today Jeff Sessions claims credit for prosecuting a lynching by the Ku Klux Klan as proof that he is not a racist, but an attorney working for him claimed 30 years ago his boss wanted to drop the case.

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Jeff Sessions Wanted to ‘Drop the Case’ Against KKK Lynching, Attorney Testified

Trump’s attorney-general pick allegedly signaled an assistant U.S. attorney working for him in the ’80s not to prosecute two whites who murdered a black man.

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Kenneth Lipp