Trump chooses senior senator for Attorney General

She is a two term California Attorney General.

The NAACP called Sessions’s appointment “deeply troubling”. In tapping Sessions and Flynn, Trump is also rewarding loyalty from two of his most ardent supporters during the presidential campaign.

He is highly respected as a decorated military intelligence officer who helped combat insurgent networks. Civil rights groups charged that Sessions had been looking for voter fraud in the black community and overlooking the same violations among whites, at least partly to help reelect his friend Senator Denton.

Well before Trump’s plan to build a wall, Sessions was a border hawk.

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said the Romney rumor is a “total head fake” and a public relations move by the Trump team-even though he would “love” for Romney, a “consummate diplomat”, to lead the State Department.

“Do we want to have a legal system or not?”

In an essay for the Guardian, Sellers said on Saturday that Session’s extensive record of hostility toward the rights of people of color, women and LGBT people demonstrates that he is unfit to serve as the highest law enforcement official in the land.

Flynn has held many senior positions, including at the Pentagon and at U.S. central command, which runs military operations in the Middle East. He was deciding between defense secretary and attorney general, and late last week he went with the latter.

Retired Army Lieutenant General Mike Flynn, who has championed Trump’s promises to take a more aggressive approach to terrorism, was chosen as his national security adviser. Sessions’s focus on these counties to the exclusion of others caused an uproar among civil rights leaders, especially after hours of interrogating black absentee voters produced only 14 allegedly tampered ballots out of more than 1.7 million cast in the state in the 1984 election. The American Civil Liberties Union which does not formally endorse nominees nevertheless made its views clear: “Sen”. Sessions did not deny saying he thought the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan “was OK until I found out they smoked pot”, the New York Times reported. Another testified that Sessions had called him “boy”, a racist insult.

“Putting Jeff Sessions in charge of that really creates a moral hazard”, Shelly says.

“I am not a racist”.

At this same hearing, Sessions expressed his concern that the loosening of marijuana laws has reversed the “progress” made on the reduction of drug abuse in America. “I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all”.

Sessions’ nomination failed 10-8.

“Does that make them un-American?” then-Sen.

“The scariest part of his potential administration will be how his political debts to the alt-right will manifest itself in his administration and policies”, Bolden said.

“Because I have since found that Sen”.

Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the committee, said Pompeo can be partisan, but that he was a “good choice – a solid choice – for Central Intelligence Agency”.

“That was wrong then and it is equally wrong today”, Bonner says. Obama said he was “encouraged” by the wide-ranging conversation the pair had, adding that it’s important “we call come together” to face the challenges America faces.

But expect a fight.

The Obama administration Justice Department, for instance, has opened 23 investigations of law enforcement agencies, including police departments in Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri, for unconstitutional practices and has reached court-enforceable consent decrees with many of them.

The senator noted that, as AG, Sessions would be the chief law enforcement officer in the US and be in charge of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which is tasked with protecting voting rights and preventing housing discrimination. The U.S Senate had voted down Mr. Sessions’ nomination as a federal judge in 1980s, owing to his controversial measures and words against African Americans, in his capacity as a U.S attorney.