Nov 08, 2018 · President Donald J. Trump announced his intention to nominate Mr. Sessions on November 18, 2016, and he was sworn in as the 84th Attorney General of the United States by Michael R. Pence on February 9, 2017. Sessions and his wife, Mary Blackshear Sessions, originally of Gadsden, Alabama, have three children, Mary Abigail Reinhardt, Ruth ...
Jun 24, 2018 · The attorney general is technically a member of a United Methodist congregation in Mobile, Alabama, but has attended services at the church in Clarendon since his days as a senator. Wines called ...
Jun 15, 2018 · Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a United Methodist layperson. Somewhere along the way in his spiritual journey he was taught the interpretation of Romans [...]
Earlier this week, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interrupted by a Methodist minister in a clerical collar who shouted verses from Matthew 25 during a religious liberty event in Boston.
Luther Strange | |
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In office February 9, 2017 – January 3, 2018 | |
Appointed by | Robert Bentley |
Preceded by | Jeff Sessions |
Succeeded by | Doug Jones |
The complaint also accuses Sessions of the “dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of doctrine of the United Methodist Church,” citing the attorney general’s use of a Bible verse last Thursday to defend the DOJ’s policy of prosecuting everyone who crosses the US–Mexico border illegally, and his suggestion that God supports the Trump administration’s decision to separate immigrant children from their families.
Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their families following Sessions’ announcement of the policy on April 19. According to statistics released by the US Department of Homeland Security on Friday, border authorities separated 1,995 kids from adults facing federal charges for illegal entry between April 19 and May 31 of this year.
AG Sessions alleges the unaccompanied minors who have come to the US fleeing gang violence has actually helped the gangs. "We had hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors coming through our borders, which has led to a resurgence of the violent gang MS13."
The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United Stateson all legal matters. The attorney general is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States.
The title "attorney general" is an example of a noun (attorney) followed by a postpositive adjective(general).[8]". General" is a description of the type of attorney, not a title or rank in itself (as it would be in the military).[8]
The following list reports the religious affiliation of the members of the United States Senate in the 117th Congress. In most cases, besides specific sources, the current senators' religious affiliations are those mentioned in regular researches by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life at the Pew Research Center.
In conjunction with figures derived from the Pew Research Center 's 2014 Religious Landscape Study, the most basic breakdown of the above data indicates that 86% of the Senate identify as Christian (compared with 70.6% of the population), 9% of the Senate identify as Jewish (compared with 1.9% of the population), 1% of the Senate identifies with other religions (compared with 5.9% of the population), 3% of the Senate have unknown religions or refused to specify them (compared with 0.6% of the population), and 1% of the Senate remains unaffiliated (compared with 22.8% of the population)..
As chief legal officers of the states, commonwealths, District of Columbia, and territories of the United States, the role of an attorney general is to serve as counselor to state government agencies and legislatures, and as a representative of the public interest.
Issuing formal opinions to state agencies. Acting as public advocates in areas such as child support enforcement, consumer protections, antitrust and utility regulation. Proposing legislation. Enforcing federal and state environmental laws. Representing the state and state agencies before the state and federal courts.
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