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>Here's a longer article on his civil rights record. I see some recent items that give me concern: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeff-sessions-race-civil-rights/story?id=43633501
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Having read the entire article (and other records on Sessions' actual record), I think you might want to go back and read the ABC News article a second time. In some areas it supports the opposite point of what you're trying to make.