As you read this, U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is in the proverbial hot seat in Washington D.C., taking questions from his colleagues over his nomination to become America’s next attorney general. One issue that’s emerged since President-elect Donald Trump tapped the Alabaman for the job is a 1980s Senate vote denying Sessions a lifetime appointment to the federal bench — partly over his poor record on race-relations.