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Six Wake Forest Law professors join 1,400 nationally opposed to Jeff Sessions as attorney general

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By Anne Blythe

Raleigh News and Observer

January 10, 2017

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Six Wake Forest Law professors — Kami Chavis, Luellen Curry, Miriam Felsenburg, Michael Green, Christopher Knott and Simone Rose — are among those represented in the following article, “NC law professors join 1,400 nationally opposed to Jeff Sessions as attorney general,” written by Anne Blythe and published on by the Raleigh News and Observer on Jan. 9, 2017.

An excerpt follows:
RALEIGH — More than three dozen law professors from North Carolina schools have joined some 1,400 law school faculty from across the country who have signed a statement urging the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to reject Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions.

The 37 N.C. law professors – from Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, Elon, the Charlotte Law School and N.C. Central University – raised concerns with the others signing the statement about Sessions’ prosecution of three civil rights activists in 1985 for voter fraud in Alabama, calling it “misguided.” Some expressed concerns about his support for building a wall along the country’s southern border and his “robust support for regressive drug policies that have fueled mass incarceration.”

Concerns were raised, too, about his “repeated opposition to legislative efforts to promote the right of women and members of the LGBT community” and about his “questioning of the relationship between fossil fuels and climate change.”

 

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