His nomination triggered an outcry from civil rights groups as well as some conservatives outside Congress who are uneasy about Sessions’ positions. The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to confirm Republican Senator Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general of the United States. The Alabama senator is known for his tough stance on immigration enforcement and his early support of President Donald Trump who nominated him for the job. Sessions was confirmed by a 52-47 vote, and will lead the Justice Department and the FBI. Donald Trump in November named his earliest and staunchest supporter in the Senate, conservative Republican Jeff Sessions, to become the next U.S. attorney general, triggering an outcry from civil rights groups as well as some conservatives outside Congress who are uneasy about Sessions’ positions. Sessions, 69, brings a record of controversial positions on race, immigration and criminal justice reform that Democrats may target. Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist and Trump critic, said on Twitter, “Jeff Sessions, considered too racist to be a judge in the ’80s, is Trump’s AG.” Holly Harris, executive director of U.S. Justice Action Network, a sentencing reform advocacy group that includes powerful conservative tax reform lobbyist Grover Norquist, said Sessions’ nomination… Read full this story
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