Sessions may very well have said something racist 31 years ago, but the Senate was considering a candidate in 2017. Obama and Hillary publicly opposed gay marriage much more recently than 1986 (think 2009, at the earliest), but who would bring up that homophobic stance today, in an effort to discredit them? Mrs. King thanked Sessions in 2000 for his help in founding a civil rights museum. If Mr. Noah failed to mention that, he is simply a partisan hack.