Mar 02, 2017 · Jeff Sessions Is Losing Republican Support Fast ... to defend Attorney General Jeff Sessions as information began to leak out ... Trump’s well-received address to Congress, rather than dealing ...
Feb 08, 2017 · Senate Approves Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. Feb. 9, 201700:27. The Senate voted Wednesday night to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, to become the nation's attorney general after three ...
Feb 08, 2017 · Call the Republicans and say, "Tell Senator _____ to stop the Democrats from trying to stall and derail the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as our Attorney General. We need an immediate vote to confirm Sen. Sessions, and we need all Republicans to stand with our new President Donald Trump in his efforts to honor his campaign promises to crack down on illegal …
Nov 08, 2018 · Attorney General: Jeff Sessions. Download image. 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 ...
Jul 15, 2020 · Former attorney general Jeff Sessions failed in his campaign against political newcomer Tommy Tuberville for the chance to reclaim his Senate seat on July 14.
The Senate voted Wednesday night to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, to become the nation's attorney general after three days of partisan acrimony over President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees.
Democrats, many of whom have worked with him in the Senate for years, opposed Sessions because of his positions on voting rights, immigration and women's health, among other issues. But their opposition wasn't enough to defeat his nomination, as it takes a simple majority to confirm Cabinet positions.
The unusual move to reprimand Warren for "impugning" Sessions came after she read aloud a letter by Coretta Scott King in opposition to his 1986 judicial nomination.
Republicans are frustrated with rules that have ground the process to a crawl. With little or no doubt about the outcome of the final votes, they see political grandstanding behind Democratic efforts to stall.
Democrats continued their floor speeches Wednesday in opposition to Sessions, but they also had additional momentum to support their colleague Warren. Warren's censure has further emboldened Democrats, even spurring the hashtag #ShePersisted, using the words of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kenrucky, as a badge of honor.
The Democrats' all-night session has been most wearing on the non-political employees who staff the Senate floor, including the stenographers, who are exhausted.
Former attorney general Jeff Sessions failed in his campaign against political newcomer Tommy Tuberville for the chance to reclaim his Senate seat on July 14. (The Washington Post) By . Amber Phillips.
And Sessions in return tried to relentlessly hammer home the two men’s tough-on-immigration rhetoric and policies.
Sessions was the first senator to endorse Trump, choosing him over other candidates like his Senate colleague Ted Cruz (R-Tex.). Trump was just a few months into his campaign when Sessions stood with him onstage, giving the candidate a boost of legitimacy from Washington. When Trump won the White House, Sessions was rewarded by being chosen as ...
Jeff Flake in Arizona and Bob Corker in Tennessee both prominently criticized Trump while in office, and it played a role in both of them deciding not to run for reelection. One conservative congressman from South Carolina lost his primary after criticizing Trump and said the president’s tweets played a role.
If there was one establishment figure in Washington who understood Trumpism, it was Jeff Sessions. But Sessions is also the Washington figure who most clearly paid a political price for not seeming loyal enough to President Trump. Support our journalism. Subscribe today.
And the president spent more than a year insulting Sessions on Twitter, even making Sessions’s former Republican colleagues in the Senate uncomfortable with the public humiliation, before firing him and then doing what he could to make sure Sessions never came back to Washington.