Nov 08, 2018 · Sessions served as a United States Senator for Alabama from 1996 to 2016 where he focused his energies on maintaining a strong military, upholding the rule of law, limiting the role of government, and providing tax relief to stimulate economic growth and to empower Americans to keep more of their hard-earned money.
Nov 07, 2018 · Washington D.C., Nov 7, 2018 / 14:31 pm. Jeff Sessions has stepped down as attorney general. The decision came at the request of President Donald Trump.
F or several months before he fired Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump had telegraphed that his attorney general would leave following the 2018 midterm …
Updated: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has submitted his resignation, at the request of President Donald Trump. “I came to work at the Department of …
Nov 07, 2018 · Urged to seek his former U.S. Senate office Alabama’s Jeff Session resigned as U.S. attorney general at President Donald Trump’s request yesterday. Sessions is a former U.S. senator, a former Alabama attorney general, and former U.S. attorney. The president’s chief of staff, John Kelley, actually asked for the resignation after the president spent months shaming […]
There he was in early 2016, beaming from the campaign stage in the Huntsville, Ala., suburb of Madison before a crowd of more than 10,000, Trump’s prized opening act, extolling the inception of a “movement.”.
On a recent June afternoon, after a long day of running for the Senate, Jeff Sessions retired to a corner booth at a Ruby Tuesday in the south Alabama town of Bay Minette. He wore a blue-and-white gingham button shirt and gray slacks. His eyes were a touch bloodshot and bleary.
In the past four months, meanwhile, Trump and Tuberville have spoken frequently by phone, sometimes as often as twice a week. In mid-June, Tuberville joined the president on Air Force One when it landed in Dallas. When we spoke at Ruby Tuesday, Sessions acknowledged Tuberville’s appeal.
During his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a black assistant U.S. attorney testified that Sessions had once called him “boy” (which Sessions denied) and said the Ku Klux Klan was “OK until I found out they smoked pot” (which Sessions said was a joke).
Another heave of the wheel. Sessions considered starting a think tank, an institution that would endeavor to lend a scholarly heft to the right-wing populism that he had long espoused and that was now co-defined with Trump, but he was unable to find financing for the project.
The former attorney general is fighting for his political life in Alabama’s Sen ate race, in the shadow of a president who still despises him.
Before voters, Sessions’s voice can seem vaguely strained, flecked with irritation, even, when unwinding the events of the past four years. It is not so much that he is tired of rehashing his decision to recuse himself, the D.O.J. regulations and whatnot that required it, though undoubtedly that is part of it.