Attorney General Jeff Sessions is delivering remarks at the Justice Department’s program marking the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday. The program is part of the Trump administration’s commemoration of MLK Day as the nation honors Dr. King’s 89th birthday.
Earlier, Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, FBI Director Christopher Wray and King’s son, Martin Luther King III, participated in a wreath laying ceremony at the MLK Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. in honor of the civil rights champion.
Sessions will make his MLK Day remarks after coming under fire for halting a majority of discrimination investigations as part of his DOJ’s Civil Rights division. He most recently rebuffed questions by CBS News legal correspondent Paula Reid regarding the DOJ’s involvement in a lawsuit against Harvard University for discriminating against Asian-American students.
Sessions has been critical of affirmative action, and in 2015, then-candidate Trump suggested it might be time to end the practice.
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