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Jeff Sessions Said ‘Secularists’ Are Unfit for Government

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The attorney general nominee told a right-wing extremist that ‘without God, there is no truth.’ How would he enforce the country’s secular laws then?

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Senator Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, has come under fire for accepting an award from right-wing extremist David Horowitz.

What Sessions said when he accepted it may prove to be even more explosive.

“Ultimately, freedom of speech is about ascertaining the truth,” Sessions, an Alabama Republican, told

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