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Sarah Wildman

Senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a regular contributor to the New York Times and The Guardian (UK) opinion pages. In 2002 she wrote a critical profile of Senator Jeff Sessions for The New Republic, Closed Sessions. Earlier this year, she wrote a piece for the UK Guardian on Sessions’ new role as ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sessions’ Checkered Past.

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Two Decades After His Rejection from Federal Bench for Racial Bias, Sen. Jeff Sessions Leads GOP Opposition to Sotomayor

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