sessions walks back that claim and says he only provided assistance. case six, which senator cruz took pains to mention, and which senator sessions claimed credit for supervising was not was not a civil rights case. it was a public corruption case. senator cruz cleverly attempted to conflate the cases in order to make it seem as if senator sessions had supervised litigation in a civil rights case. senator cruz deflected to point out that all four of the civil rights cases at issue here had either concluded or were still active back when senator sessions appeared before this committee in 1986. 30 years ago, though, senator sessions did not list any of
listed on your questionnaire. in 1986, mr. hebert testified, this is a quote from him, i have needed mr. sessions help in those cases and he has provided that help every step of the way. is that correct? that that is what mr. hebert testified? senator sessions, yes, that is correct. and once again, senator cruz allies the truth. the four civil rights cases that i questioned senator sessions about during his hearing, before he claimed that to have personally have handled. this is senator sessions. the guy we re talking about confirming or not. they were not what mr. hebert was talking about in that quote from 1986. mr. hebert worked on a number of cases in the southern district of alabama and he was speaking about how he had interacted with senator sessions generally. now to be clear, mr. hebert had explained to this committee that two of the four civil rights cases that senator sessions claimed credit for personal lie
someone who you could say it happened with john tower, a long, long time ago. but jeff sessions is known, liked, he s an affable guy, people like jeff. for members who are collegial with him and have been for many, many years in cases, to be this rancorous tells you who is controlling the democratic party right now. because this isn t al franken speaking, this isn t sheldon whitehouse. this is the left. this is the hard-core left demanding a pound of flesh. and they re pushing their senators to go out there and ignore protocol, ignore tradition, ignore everything and just go after these people viciously. and that s what s happening here. and if this is what to expect, this is going to be a brutal year for everybody in washington, dc. simone sanders, i imagine you don t see it quite like that. well, what i see is, i think senator santorum and the rest of the republicans totally forgot
he said he cooperated with doj lawyers, not personally handled, if you ask me. i suspect that s why he felt the need to file the supplement. notice how senator cruz explained the supplement during the hearing. here s how you described your involvement to the committee. here s sender cruises quote from the supplement these of the four cases that senator sessions claimed to have personally handled, my role, like most u.s. attorneys in the nation and with noncriminal civil rights cases, was to provide support for the department of justice civil rights division attorneys. i reviewed, supported, and posted on complaint that were filed during my tenure as a u.s.
senator cruz did not mention that. i wonder what changed between 1986 and now that caused these four civil rights cases to take on new significance for the nominee. it s hard to say. look, senator cruz is a brilliant attorney. but he doesn t have a case here. and the fact of the matter is that senator sessions misrepresented his record by claiming to have personally handled cases that he simply did not handle. and the supplement he filed doesn t explain that misrepresentation away. it lays it bare for all to see. senator sessions would not have tolerated that kind of misrepresentation from a nominee