Sessions served as attorney general from February 9, 2017, to November 7, 2018. Senate confirmation vote On February 8, 2017, the Senate voted 52-47 to confirm Sessions as attorney general.
Feb 08, 2017 · He concluded: "Jeff Sessions has earned my support." The vote is scheduled for 6:50 p.m. Eastern. Watch a live stream of the Senate proceedings here or watch below:
Feb 09, 2017 · A bitter battle as Sen. Sessions confirmed to be attorney general 02:50. WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney …
Senate Confirms Jeff Sessions as Attorney General by Warren Mass February 9, 2017 Following 30 hours of often-contentious debate, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Senator Jeff …
Feb 08, 2017 · Sen. Jeff Sessions won confirmation Wednesday evening to become the next attorney general of the United States, capping a Senate fight so contentious that one of the …
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In office February 9, 2017 – January 3, 2018 | |
Appointed by | Robert Bentley |
Preceded by | Jeff Sessions |
Succeeded by | Doug Jones |
Who is Attorney General Jeff Sessions? Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was born on 24 December 1946, in Selma, Alabama USA, and is a politician and lawyer, who is now best known for serving as the 84th Attorney General of the United States since 2017. Besides that, he was a senator for Alabama over the course of two decades from 1997, ...
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.
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.