Nov 08, 2018 · Eighty-Fourth Attorney General, 2017-2018. Mr. Sessions was born in Selma, Alabama on December 24, 1946, and grew up in Hybart, the son of a country store owner. Growing up in the country, Sessions was instilled with certain core values – honesty, hard work, belief in God and parental respect – that define him today.
Nov 08, 2018 · Why Jeff Sessions' ouster as attorney general is so important. What matters is not just the Trump-vs-Sessions drama; it's also what happens to …
Attorney General Jeff Sessions submitted his letter of resignation. John Roberts reports.FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service de...
Less than a month after Sessions started as Attorney General, the DOJ switched sides in a case challenging a Texas voter ID law and abandoned its claim that the law was intended to discriminate. Although the lower court in that case again struck down the law anyway, what a Sessions DOJ will do when Texas appeals is a cause for deep concern.
Jul 27, 2017 · — -- U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' meetings with the Russian ambassador during the campaign continue to cause problems for …
Despite that, he was harshly criticized and called “throw-back to a shameful era” and “a disgrace”. Sessions subsequently handled the issue of school funding, but his work was found unconstitutional because of the differences between rich and white, and mostly black poor schools.
Sessions subsequently handled the issue of school funding, but his work was found unconstitutional because of the differences between rich and white, and mostly black poor schools.
Jeff began working as an assistant us attorney in 1975, then in 1981 President Reagan nominated him for the position of the US attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, a position he held for the next 12 years until under Bill Clinton’s presidency, he resigned. His office filed civil rights charges for the killing of Michael Donald in 1981 by two members of the Ku Klux Klan, and although Jeff did not prosecute the case, both of the murderers were convicted. In 1985, he prosecuted three African-American men for voter fraud which led to charges of selective prosecution of black voters. In the following year, the President Reagan nominated Jeff to serve on the position of the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, supported by Republican Alabama Senator Jeremiah Denton. However, this proposal fell through.
By the time Sessions joined the Senate in 1997, gleefully taking Heflin’s seat, the Republican Party was shifting increasingly to the right. Sessions’ casual racism — the chummy nonchalance with which he assumed his own superiority — may not have been what got him elected, but it didn’t keep him from it, either.
Sessions won his 1996 race for Senate with 52 percent of the vote. He won his 2014 race, unopposed, with 97 percent of it.
After Reagan appointed him as a U.S. Attorney in 1981, Sessions waged the racist drug war with a firebrand’s passion , pushing for the maximum possible sentences and filling Alabama’s prisons with black and brown bodies.
The former attorney general’s defeat in Alabama isn’t a repudiation of his racism and populism. It’s proof they’ve gone mainstream. Jeff Sessions during a meeting of local Republicans at the Vestavia Hills Public Library in Alabama, January, 2020. When Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was resoundingly defeated this week in his race to reclaim ...
During his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a black assistant U.S. attorney testified that Sessions had called him “boy” and had once opined that he thought the Ku Klux Klan was “OK until I found out they smoked pot” (Sessions denied the former and professed that the latter was only a joke).