In Alabama, NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and five other civil rights leaders are due in court today, where they’ll face misdemeanor charges stemming from their sit-in protest January 4 inside the office of Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions. The six are demanding Sessions withdraw his name from consideration for attorney general due to his opposition to the Voting Rights Act and history of making racist comments. After today’s hearing, the six leaders are scheduled to join a rally outside Sessions’s office in Mobile, where they say they might participate in another direct action.