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Jan 10, 2017 · WASHINGTON ― Protesters dressed up as members of the Ku Klux Klan greeted Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-Ala.) at his attorney general confirmation hearing Tuesday. Two men dressed in white robes and holding signs stood on their chairs and yelled at Sessions as he entered a Senate hearing room.
- Ryan J. Reilly
Jan 10, 2017 · Specifically, Sessions joked that he thought the KKK was okay until he realized that they liked to smoke marijuana, which is precisely the kind of joke that a guy named Jefferson Beauregard...
- Martin Longman
Nov 7, 2018 · Sessions was a senator from Alabama was first elected in 1996 and served as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. From 1975 to 1977 he was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama and from 1981 to 1993 was the U.S. attorney for the district. In 1994 he was elected Alabama's 44th attorney general.
Feb 9, 2017 · Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is a four-term junior senator from Alabama who, before being elected to that office in 1996, served as attorney general for the state. Sessions is a...
Dec 22, 2016 · Jeff Sessions’ uneasy history with race can be traced back to the long, winding roads that cut through the pine forests and farmland in this deep corner of the Deep South. As a boy, Jefferson ...
Dec 22, 2016 · Sessions denied making the comments or said he could not recall them, though he did admit to cracking a joke about how he had lost respect for the Ku Klux Klan when he learned its members...
Sep 4, 2017 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, a son of the segregated South who was named after leaders of the Confederacy, faces a tough new test of his commitment to protecting civil rights as he oversees the Justice Department’s investigation of the deadly violence at a rally of white nationalists in Virginia.
