Donald Trump’s announcement to name Jeff Sessions, the junior Senator from Alabama, to be the United States Attorney General has caused some upheaval. This announcement was made merely days after Trump becoming President-Elect, but just recently prompted a reaction from the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).

Tuesday morning, a group of representatives from the NAACP held a sit in protest at Sessions’ office in Mobile, Alabama in hopes of dissuading Sessions from taking the nomination. Sessions is typically conservative leaning, and is even considered one of the most conservative members in all of the Senate and Congress.

He is most known in the world of politics for his vigorous anti-immigration stance, and also for being a proponent of the Federal Marriage Amendment. This came about during the presidency of George W. Bush and would have banned any form of same sex marriage across the United States. If it made it through Congress and to the states, it would have not simply became a law, but an Amendment in the Constitution.

This history of his stances has prompted many to regard him as anti civil rights, therefore many see him as unfit to be a leader in this day and age. This all led up to the sit in protest, where nearly a dozen members of the NAACP and associates made their way into Sessions’ office, yet sessions was in the office at the time. This persisted until about 7:30 when a building manager asked them to leave under the threat of being arrested.

There were several pictures posted on twitter, and even a live stream portraying several protesters tied up in zip tie handcuffs. This is a string of protests planned by the NAACP around Alabama, but this one targeting Sessions comes merely days before his Senate Hearing for his new position on January 10th, 2017.