Doug Jones seen as leading contender for Biden's attorney general nominee Dec. 8, 2020 01:19 Jones declined to comment Tuesday when NBC News asked if he’d accept a …
As a U.S. Attorney, Jones prosecuted the two remaining perpetrators of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, which killed four young girls in Birmingham, AL in 1963. In 2007, Jones won the 15th Anniversary Civil Rights Distinguished Service …
Nov 16, 2020 · USA Today reports that former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is considering U.S. Senator Doug Jones, D-Alabama, to head the U.S. Department of Justice in the Biden administration. Jones is among the top contenders to be Biden’s choice as attorney general, USA Today reported, according to their sources.
Jan 03, 2018 · Richard Jaffe was the Alabama defense attorney hired by the Moore family in 2016 to defend son Caleb against drug charges. Roy Moore's 'Jew' attorney voted for …
Jan 03, 2018 · Roy Moore's Jewish attorney who politician's wife used as 'proof' he wasn't anti-Semitic voted for his Democrat rival Doug Jones in Alabama Senate election. Richard Jaffe was the Alabama defense ...
Democratic candidate Doug Jones defeated Republican candidate Roy Moore by a margin of 21,924 votes (1.63%). Jones became the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat in the state since 1992. ... Jones, a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, won the Democratic primary election.
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Richard Craig Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Alabama. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a Democrat who later switched to the Republican Party in 1994, he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee from 2018 to 2021.
Class II. Senators in Class II were elected to office in the November 2020 general election, unless they took their seat through appointment or special election. Their terms run from the beginning of the 117th Congress on January 3, 2021 to the end of the 119th Congress on January 3, 2027.
Doug Jones ( Democratic Party) was a member of the U.S. Senate from Alabama. He assumed office on January 3, 2018. He left office on January 3, 2021. Jones ( Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. Senate to represent Alabama. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Former U.S. attorney Doug Jones (D) defeated former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore (R) in the general election on December 12, 2017. Jones topped Moore by 1.7 points, 50 percent to 48.3 percent. It was the only congressional special election in 2017 to result in a flipped seat.
Alabama boasts 15 HBCUs, more than any other state in the country. Doug is proud to have helped secure a 14% increase in federal funding for HBCUs in the 2018 Omnibus Spending Bill, bringing funding from $244.7 million in 2017 to $279.6 in 2018.
Passed 74 to 20 in the U.S. Senate on November 20th, 2019. U.S. Sen. Jones voted for: U.S. House Resolution 755.
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To renew provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that permit federal government investigators to collect business records and other information without a warrant during national security investigations. The FISA law authorizes a federal judge to approve such collections without notifying the target, or hearing opposing arguments. The bill would also increase the number of FISA courts, and expand the circumstances that require FISA judges to hear from a government-appointed critic of these requests.
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (HR 1) Motion Agreed to (51-48) on December 20, 2017. Proposed providing for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018 and proposed changes to the tax code.