Mayor Kenney Issues Statement on Sen. Jeff Sessions Appointment to Attorney General

PHILADELPHIA— Mayor Jim Kenney has issued the following statement regarding Sen. Jeff Sessions being appointed Attorney General of the United States.

“Last night, Coretta Scott King’s concerns over Senator Jeff Sessions were silenced, so I will echo them here.

“I have great concern that, as Attorney General, Jeff Sessions will reverse the reform that has strengthened police-community trust in Philadelphia, helping to bring our crime rate to a forty-year low.

“I also fear that Sessions will enforce discriminatory voting laws that serve only to disenfranchise millions of voters—the majority of them poor and people of color—in order to address statistically insignificant, isolated incidents of voter fraud.

“I hope he proves those concerns unfounded. But if he does not, then I encourage Philadelphians to protest his nomination by exercising their right to vote as they never have before”