Sessions’ racist attitudes kept him from being named to the federal bench himself in 1986. In testimony before the Senate, a fellow prosecutor said that Sessions’ referred to him as “boy” while another co-worker noted Sessions’ “joking” about how he liked the KKK. But Sessions’ attitude toward black judicial candidates was no joke.

"The senator has a problem putting African Americans on the federal bench in Alabama," says John Saxon, a Birmingham-based attorney who served on a committee in the 1990s that recommended nominees for judgeships in the state. "And the people need to know that."

When Sessions declared that the issue with all the candidates put forward was not that they were black, but too liberal, Sessions was challenged to provide an African American candidate that he did approve of. But even conservative judges appointed by Reagan somehow failed some subtle, so-hard-to-define internal test from Sessions.

Saxon's committee eventually decided that filling the Southern District vacancy with an African American was hopeless and put forward Donald Briskman, a respected Jewish lawyer in Mobile. Sessions blocked him, too, according to Saxon.

When it comes to Sessions feelings about health care, he doesn’t mess around. He not only voted to give healthcare only to unborn children, he did so by taking funds directly away from women.

In 2008, Sessions voted yes on an amendment to remove pregnant women from the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and instead give coverage to the fetus. At the time of the vote, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) described the amendment as follows: "It takes it away from the woman and gives it to the fetus.”

Fetus covered. Pregnant women? Not covered. It’s hard to think of a vote that more clearly draws the line around what the Republican Party values.

And finally, there’s Sessions’ little error in filling out his paperwork for the AG position.

The Alabama records show that Sessions owns subsurface rights to oil and other minerals on more than 600 acres in his home state, some of which are adjacent to a federal wildlife preserve.

Sessions didn’t bother to mention this. But hey, let’s look at how Sessions responded when an Obama nominee to a much less important position failed to be a completist in listing all the articles he had written for law reviews.

“At best, this nominee’s extraordinary disregard for the Committee’s constitutional role demonstrates incompetence; at worst, it creates the impression that he knowingly attempted to hide his most controversial work from the Committee,” the letter read.

There you go. Replace “this nominee” with “Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III” and you can reuse the whole thing.

Hearings on Sessions are expected to begin Tuesday.