"Denying that he was not anti-gay or anti-women"

Language Log 2017-01-19

Summary:

Matt Apuzzo, "Under Trump, Approach to Civil Rights Law Is Likely to Change Definitively", NYT 1/19/2017: At this confirmation hearing, Mr. Sessions harkened to the era of segregation in arguing that there was no need for the federal government to become involved in prosecuting crimes against women or gay people that were already being prosecuted […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=30492

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Tags:

misnegation

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

01/19/2017, 09:35

Date published:

01/19/2017, 09:16