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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
Nov 7, 2018 · November 07, 2018, 12:49 pm. -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned at the request of President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Sessions was frequently in the spotlight throughout the turbulent first several months of Donald Trump's presidency, from a hotly contested confirmation hearing to his recusal from the Russia investigation in March 2017.
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 national
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...
Nov 8, 2019 · Jeff Sessions was appointed attorney general in 2017. Mr Sessions has said the allegations that he once supported the KKK were "damnably false", and he has denied making the comments to the...
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...
Jan 11, 2017 · Democrats on the Committee were far from convinced that Sessions indeed got it. After all, this was the same Jeff Sessions who had a flat zero voting record on most civil rights organizations' score cards and was the first U.S. Senator to endorse Donald Trump—essentially legitimizing a racist candidate who had previously been shunned by nearly all of the Republican establishment.
