The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an ethics complaint against Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Thursday, asking the Alabama State Bar to investigate a potential rules violation after the former senator was revealed to have lied to Congress during his confirmation testimony.
“False testimony made under oath is one of the most serious ethical offenses a lawyer can make and one any state bar should investigate vigorously,” said ACLU national political director Faiz Shakir. “Alabamians and Americans from all walks of life should be assured that the organizations responsible for regulating lawyers in their state take ethical violations seriously—no matter how powerful that lawyer may be.”
Sessions has been a member of the Alabama State Bar since 1973. The legal association states that engaging in behavior “involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation” counts as professional misconduct, the ACLU noted in its complaint.
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The civil rights group urged the bar to investigate and “take any appropriate disciplinary actions” against the attorney general and former Alabama lawmaker. The move came on the same day that Boston-based attorney J. Whitfield Larrabee filed a similar ethics complaint against Sessions, arguing that he had engaged in “unethical and criminal conduct” during his confirmation hearing.
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