CNN Reports:
The issue has spilled out to the
campaign trail as well. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who is
battling in a GOP runoff to get his old Alabama Senate seat back, attacked Democratic Sen. Doug Jones for
backing the Warren amendment. Sessions tweeted that the plan "betrays
the character and decency of every soldier who fought for the South in
that bloody and monumental war."
Sessions
says that opposing the amendment doesn't mean it's an "affirmation of
slavery" because the "slavery question had been settled by the war."
Asked
about the criticism, Jones told CNN: "Does that surprise anybody that
Jeff would defend the Confederacy and would go after somebody who will
be on the right side of history?"
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