Six protesters from the NAACP, including the organization’s national president, were arrested Tuesday night after holding a sit-in at the Mobile, Ala., office of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee.

Why are people protesting the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions?  

Here's one reason...

In 1986, the then-39-year-old Sessions was nominated to serve as a federal judge in President Ronald Reagan’s administration. As The Washington Post’s Amber Phillips reported in November:

The accusations mostly came from (but were not limited to) Sessions’s former deputy, Thomas Figures. He sent a letter to the Senate and reporters claiming his boss said insensitive things about black people, at times directly to him.

Figures, who is black, said Sessions told him to be careful about what he said “to white folks” after Figures got into a heated argument with a white colleague. And Figures testified Sessions called him “boy” on multiple occasions.

Figures also said Sessions had joked about the Ku Klux Klan, saying he thought its members were “okay, until he learned that they smoked marijuana.”

A Justice Department lawyer, J. Gerald Hebert, testified that Sessions had described the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union as “un-American” and “Communist-inspired.”

The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee ultimately rejected Sessions’s nomination in a 10-8 vote.