Tag Archives: Jeff Sessions

Via the right wing site Hot Air: If the pace of confirmations from the Senate remains historically glacial, the pace of executive orders still seems rather brisk into Donald Trump’s third week as president. The two streams crossed in the Oval Office this morning, as Jeff Sessions took the oath of office as Attorney General administered by Vice President Mike …

The Protect Marriage lawyer who defended Prop 8 at the Supreme Court and who later appeared to “evolve” on same-sex marriage is expected to be Trump’s pick for Solicitor General. Yahoo News reports: Conservative lawyer Chuck Cooper has emerged as Donald Trump’s likely pick to be the nation’s next solicitor general, three sources say. As the nation’s top advocate, Cooper …

Birmingham’s ABC affiliate reports: Sources tell ABC 33/40 Gov. Robert Bentley is expected to appoint Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange to the U.S. Senate following the resignation of Jeff Sessions to become U.S. Attorney General. The U.S. Senate confirmed Sessions’ appointment Wednesday evening. Strange practiced law in Birmingham before becoming Alabama Attorney General. He’s currently the Chairman-Elect of the Republican …

The Washington Post reports: The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general, following a bitter debate in the chamber that saw Republicans formally rebuke Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for the manner in which she criticized her colleague from Alabama. Sessions, a four-term U.S. senator, was the first senator to endorse Trump in February 2016, and his …

At this writing Democrats are still at the podium railing against Sessions. NBC News reports: The Senate is set to vote on the confirmation of Sen. Jeff Sessions to become the nation’s attorney general Wednesday evening after three contentious days of partisan acrimony over President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees. Democrats have spent more than 50 consecutive hours on the Senate …

Politico reports: Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lauded Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday for continuing to speak against the confirmation of Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general, joining a social media chorus in using Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s words against him. The GOP-controlled Senate voted along party lines Wednesday evening to stop Warren (D-Mass.) from speaking because …

The Huffington Post reports: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) rose on Tuesday and objected in the midst of a speech Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was giving in opposition to the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general. McConnell took particular issue with Warren quoting a letter written by Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow, …

The Hill reports: A Senate committee voted to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general on Wednesday, two days after the growing controversy surrounding President Trump’s travel ban on seven Muslim nations led to the firing of an acting attorney general for insubordination. Sessions’ nomination now goes to the floor, where he is widely expected to be confirmed …

The hearing is already underway. Surely this will come up: Well, this is awkward. Video of Sally Yates’ Deputy Attorney General confirmation hearing in 2015 shows Sen. Jeff Sessions — Trump’s pick for the country’s top legal position — grilling her about her responsibility to the then-President, Barack Obama, should he require her to execute “unlawful” views. “You have to …

USA Today reports: A night after firing his acting attorney general for refusing to defend his new immigration order, President Trump mocked his Democratic congressional critics Tuesday and demanded that the Senate confirm his pick to lead the Department of Justice, Jeff Sessions. The tweets came a morning after Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates after she said …

Miranda Blue reports at Right Wing Watch: A dark money group that spent $21 million supporting Donald Trump in the presidential election is now running a television ad portraying Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s nominee to be attorney general, as “a civil rights champion.” Sessions has been a lifelong opponent of civil rights. He was rejected for a federal judgeship …

Politico reports: New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, said Thursday he will vote against Jeff Sessions for attorney general — saying he had concerns about whether the Alabama senator could be a sufficient check on Donald Trump. Schumer has repeatedly said he and Sessions are on good terms and regularly ride bikes together at the senators-only gym. …

He’ll follow them until Trump stacks the Court against them. The Independent reports: Incoming attorney general Jeff Sessions admitted that he still opposed same-sex marriage and Roe v Wade, a 1973 law that guarantees a women’s right to an abortion. Mr Sessions said he would “respect and follow” both laws in their current form, but admitted he still held his …

The Hill reports: Protestors dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan interrupted Tuesday’s confirmation hearing of Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions, chiding the Alabama senator for past allegations of racist comments. The two protestors were dressed in white robes and hoods, holding foam fingers with “KKK” and “Go Jeffie Boy” written on the hands. They chanted sarcastic praise at Sessions, …

UPDATE: Things are set to begin shortly. The hearing begins at 9:30AM Eastern and will be broadcast on all cable networks and via the live-stream embedded below. CNN reports on a breaking development: Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is set to testify against Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions Wednesday in an unprecedented move during his attorney general confirmation. This would be the …

This morning Sarah Flores, the spokesperson for Jeff Sessions, appeared on CNN to declare that despite his history of loudly opposing same-sex marriage, Obergefell is “settled law at this point” and unlike his predecessor, Sessions will “enforce the laws as they’re written, not as the Justice Department wishes they were.” Flores added that Sessions will make the DOJ “an enforcement …

Hate groups leader Tony Perkins appeared on Fox Business today to celebrate the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to run the Justice Department, which “for the first time in eight years will actually uphold the law.” According to Perkins, objections to Sessions are just standard noise straight out of the Rules For Radicals guide to “stigmatize and marginalize” conservatives. Watch …

Politico reports: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday rebuffed Democratic calls to slow down rapid confirmation of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, even after a nonpartisan federal watchdog raised “great” concerns about moving ahead with hearings for nominees without their ethics reviews completed. Walter Shaub, the director of the independent Office of Government Ethics, laid out his warning in a …

The International Business Times reports: The confirmation process for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is “rigged” and should be delayed in order to thoroughly vet Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, a group of civil rights leaders said in a conference call with reporters Friday. Citing reports that Democrats will be allowed to call only four witnesses to testify at next …

Law Newz reports: A source close to the matter has confirmed to LawNewz.com that Kellyanne Conway‘s husband, George Conway, met with Trump’s incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions about a potential top position at the U.S. Department of Justice. Conway is being considered for the role of solicitor general. In this powerful position, Conway would be the top defender of the …