attorney general
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Coretta Scott King Wrote a Letter Blasting Jeff Sessions in 1986. So Where Is It?
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is currently undergoing a weird process of schmoozefest and hard-hitting interrogation as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general. This isn’t the first time Sessions has faced a committee while seeking approval to fill a high-ranking position. In 1986 Sessions was up for federal judge, and Coretta Scott King wrote a…
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Head of Judiciary Committee Wants to Speed Up Jeff Sessions Confirmation Hearing
The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that he wants to move quickly on the hearing to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as U.S. attorney general. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that he plans to schedule the hearing before the inauguration, and noted that the hearings for Eric Holder and John Ashcroft also…
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Who Is Jeff Sessions? 11 Facts About Trump’s Pick for Attorney General
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Jeff Sessions, an Alabama senator with a questionably racist past, to be attorney general under his administration. Sessions met with Trump on Wednesday, and shortly after the meeting, the Trump transition team issued a statement saying, “The President-elect has been unbelievably impressed with Senator Sessions and his phenomenal record as…
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Jeff Sessions Couldn't Be Judge Because of Racial Comments; Now He's Trump's Pick for AG
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Sen. Jeff Sessions, a conservative from Alabama whose nomination for a federal judgeship was rejected because of racially charged comments, to be the next attorney general of the United States. According to the New York Times, Sessions, a former prosecutor, was also being considered for the position of secretary of…
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What Does the Justice Department Look Like Under a President Trump?
Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump stressed the need for more law enforcement in America, and under his direction, the Justice Department could see a drastic shift in priorities that would reinforce those ideals. Under President Barack Obama, the Justice Department built an aggressive Civil Rights Division, but according to legal analysts and Trump’s public…
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Former AG Eric Holder Blasts FBI Director Over Clinton Email 'Mistake'
Former Attorney General Eric Holder blasted FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. “I fear he has unintentionally and negatively affected public trust in both the Justice Department and the FBI,” Holder wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post published late Sunday. “And he…
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Limited Transcripts of Police Calls With Orlando, Fla., Shooter to Be Released, Lynch Says
Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Sunday that limited transcripts from three phone calls authorities had with Orlando, Fla., mass shooter Omar Mateen will be released Monday, CNN reports. “They will talk about what he told law enforcement on the ground as the events were unfolding,” Lynch said on the network’s State of the Union. “He…