Condoleezza Rice, the former Secretary of State announce her support on President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala) as attorney general, through a letter she wrote on Monday to Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
Rice, who served under former President George W. Bush said that Sen.Sessions will uphold the laws of The United States and will "ensure that every person here" is given the voice that is deserved, reported CNN.
Sessions, according to Rice, has helped stop the "prejudice and injustice against the descendants of slaves" in Alabama, where she originally comes from.
Rice, the first African-American woman who held the position of Secretary of State also noted that Sessions rallied efforts to award the Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
Sessions have been hammered by critics over accusation of racial bias, highlighting his failed nomination for a federal judgeship as disqualifying for the nation's top law enforcement office which took place in more than three decades ago.
Sessions, who is also former Senate Judiciary Committee member will face his colleagues at scheduled confirmation hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday. According to The Hill, the confirmation process has the potential to become one of the most heated fights of Trump's administration team picks.
In 1986, Session's nomination for a U.S District Court judgeship was withdrawn after he was testified by witnesses of making racial remarks, such as labelling the American Civil Liberties Union and NAACP as "un-American". That same deputy said that Sessions had called him "boy" on more than one occasion and had said that he thought the Ku Klux Klan was "OK until he learned that they smoked marijuana."
Republicans who have served alongside Sessions have praised him, and many say he will receive the simple majority needed for confirmation.
Supporters have countered such attacks are scaremongering that ignore Sessions' work protecting civil and voting rights as Alabama's former attorney general.
