Sessions brings conservative voice to Justice Dept.

The pick was disclosed Friday by a senior Trump official who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about it.

“In addition to the fact that Americans have to compete against immigrant labor, they have to compete against imports, they also have to compete against robots and computers”, Sessions said.

Earlier today, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be the United States Attorney General, which oversees the Department of Justice.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said he strongly supported Sessions, who he said “has worked tirelessly to safeguard the public and to improve the lives of Americans from all walks of life”. Strange, in a letter this month to the committee chairman, said his office was doing “related work” but did not elaborate.

“We absolutely protect the right of every Muslim that’s in America to be able to carry out their religious beliefs as they choose”, Sessions said in the interview.

“The next Attorney General will be tasked with essential role of chief law enforcement officer and chief lawyer of the United States government”. The chamber’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, said he would want Sessions to answer “tough questions” about his civil rights positions.

A member of the House intelligence committee, Pompeo said former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden should face the death penalty for taking and releasing secret documents about surveillance programs in which the us government collected the phone records of millions of Americans.

Four states – California, Nevada, Massachusetts, and ME – voted to legalize recreational marijuana use by adults on Election Day this year, following previous moves by Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C. Including medical marijuana, 29 states now allow some form of legal weed. We did not get one, we just got silence from Senator Sessions, but I’ve seen some of the letters that did come back. And he’s been protective of certain surveillance powers, telling Holder in one committee hearing that when it comes to warrantless wiretapping, “we’ve exaggerated the extent to which this is somehow violative of our Constitution”.

When Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986 and at the time was accused of using racially charged language. He’s been in the Senate for 19 years. As Trump’s national security adviser, Flynn would not require Senate confirmation.

“Sen. Sessions brings experience, intelligence, and passion to Justice”, Robert Raben, formerly an assistant attorney general under former President Bill Clinton and now head of consulting firm the Raben Group told the Washington Post. Sessions later withdrew from consideration. During his confirmation hearings, former colleagues said Sessions used the n-word and joked about liking the KKK until he heard they smoked weed.

The 57-year-old has been outspoken in his warnings about the dangers of Islamist groups, saying the US needs to “discredit” radical Islam. Edward Kennedy, a Democrat, who said he was unqualified to be a federal judge because of his attitude toward black people.

“In the case of Jeff Sessions in the Department of Justice, I think it’s been a very politicized department of late”, Conway said.

Back in 1986 Sessions was a US prosecutor in Alabama.

A spokesman for Sessions said the senator would have no comment at this time.