Yesterday a federal jury in South Carolina sentenced the Confederacy-loving Charleston Church shooter Dylann Roof to death.
Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, the Senate gave a job interview to the living, breathing embodiment of the Confederacy's legacy - Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the Third - who Donald Trump wants to be Attorney General.
Sessions - better known as Jeff Sessions - is probably Donald Trump's most controversial cabinet pick, and for one very good reason: he was too racist for the Reagan era.
Back in 1986 the Senate blocked him from becoming a federal judge because of repeated allegations of racism.
Sessions - at the time a U.S. Attorney in Mobile, Alabama - is supposed to have said that he "didn't think the KKK were such bad guys until [he] found out they smoked marijuana".
He's also supposed to have called an African-American colleague "boy" - and reportedly referred to a white attorney as a "race traitor".
Those allegations were serious enough that in 1986 the then-Republican-controlled Senate said "no" to him becoming a federal judge.
That was 30 years ago - and Sessions STILL might become the next Attorney General.
Amazing....
When it comes to Jeff Sessions, though, the past might honestly not be as concerning as the future.
