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Jeff Sessions
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as United States senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017 before resigning that position to serve as attorney general in the first administration of President Donald Trump. Trump fired Sessions in 2018…
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politics · American politician and attorney (born 1946) · politician · lawyer · political scientist · also Jeff Sessions, Jefferson Sessions, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Sessions, Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III
Born 24 December 1946 · Q358443
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2026· 11 entries
“a return to the tradition of up-or-down votes on all judicial nominees would ... strengthen the Senate.”
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“The group who spoke here the other day did not represent the American ideals of freedom, liberty and spreading that around the world. I frankly don”
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“I believe it would be unwise for Congress to restrict the discretion of the Department to fund particular prosecutions, particularly in the midst of an historic drug epidemic and potentially long-term uptick in violent crime.”
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“You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation toward the most serious charges that can be brought, because this is an unequivocally unacceptable and evil attack that cannot be accepted in America.”
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“to seek improper and illegal entry into this country”
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“would want to phrase differently”
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“[w]hen the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people – not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power.”
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“OK until I found out they smoked pot”
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Riverfront Times: Is Ferguson’s Consent Decree Safe Under Jeff Sessions?
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Washington Examiner: FBI investigated then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions one day after Comey’s firing, declassified documents show
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: Jeff Sessions
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2021· 2 entries
The American Conservative: Jeff Sessions Was Right
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The Guardian: Jeff Sessions impeded inquiry into role in Trump’s family separation policy
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2020· 6 entries
The Guardian: Jeff Sessions loses GOP nomination for his old Alabama Senate seat
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says the Obama administration was doing pattern-or-practice investigations of discrimination by police departments and “Donald Trump came in with Jeff Sessions and undid those.”” Mostly True.
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The Guardian: Trump: Sessions was not 'mentally qualified' to be attorney general
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The Guardian: Jeff Sessions snaps back after Trump tells Alabama not to trust him
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The Guardian: Jeff Sessions’ run-off and a Bush's loss: Super Tuesday races you may have missed
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Sessions and his wife Mary have three children and as of March 30, 2020, ten grandchildren.
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Who in their right mind would replace Jeff Sessions? Enter William Barr | Richard Wolffe
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2018· 11 entries
Sessions resigned at President Trump's behest
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Sessions tendered his resignation at Trump's request following months of public and private conflict with President Trump over his recusal from investigations relating to Russian election interference
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Submitted a letter of resignation to Chief of Staff John Kelly at President Trump's request
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Trump complained on Twitter that "investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department
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Awarded Time 100 (2018).
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “"Jeff Sessions Resigning Over 'Health Issues.'"” False.
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Sessions signed a memo instructing federal prosecutors to seek capital punishment on major drug dealers
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Sessions fired McCabe hours before the deputy director would have qualified for a government pension, citing McCabe's lack of candor to the department's inspector general
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Claimed: ““Trump promised to end ‘American carnage.’ Promise delivered.”” — rated Three Pinocchios by The Washington Post.
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Sessions shuttered the Justice Department's Office for Access to Justice, which had focused on making legal aid more accessible
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Due to his inaction and recusal from the Russian collusion probes
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2017· 35 entries
Sessions rescinded guidelines intended to warn local courts against imposing excessive fines and fees on poor defendants
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Sessions rescinded 200 pages of guidance documents
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Claimed: ““I did not [have communications with the Russians] — and I’m not aware of anyone else that did. I don’t believe that it happened.”” — rated False by The Washington Post.
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Claimed: ““We also have dirty immigration lawyers who are encouraging their otherwise unlawfully present clients to make false claims of asylum providing them with the magic words needed to trigger the credible fear process.”” — rated Three Pinocchios by The Washington Post.
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Claimed: “"I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I didn't have — did not have communications with the Russians."” — rated Less than totally candid by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “Those in the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program are "mostly-adult illegal aliens."” — rated Lacks Context by FactCheck.org.
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Claimed: ““The effect of this unilateral executive amnesty, among other things, contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border that yielded terrible humanitarian consequences.”” — rated Two Pinocchios by The Washington Post.
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Claimed: “DACA provided ‘unilateral executive amnesty’” — rated Not settled among experts by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “"According to a recent study from the University of California Riverside, (sanctuary) cities with these policies have more violent crime on average than those that don’t."” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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Sessions signed an order reviving federally adopted civil asset forfeiture, which allows local law enforcement to bypass state limitations on seizing the property of those suspected but not charged of crimes
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Sessions testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee after canceling testimonies before the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
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James Comey, who had been dismissed as FBI director a month earlier, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that he had expected Sessions to recuse himself from the Russia investigation two weeks before he di
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Sessions issued a memo prohibiting the DOJ from directing or requiring settlement payments to non-governmental third parties that were "neither victims nor parties to the lawsuits," thus ending the Obama administration's
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Sessions ordered federal prosecutors to begin seeking the greatest criminal charges possible in drug cases
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Sessions delivered a memo to the president recommending that Trump fire FBI director James Comey, attaching a memo by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein which called the Director's behavior indefensible
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Sessions traveled to an ethics lawyers' conference to assure them the department would continue prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, regardless of Trump's comments that the law is a "horrible law" and th
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Snopes rated the claim “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he's amazed a Hawaiian judge "sitting on an island in the Pacific' can block executive orders.” True.
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Sessions issued a memo for federal attorneys to consider prosecuting anyone harboring an illegal immigrant
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Sessions disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science and ended the department's review of forensic accuracy in closed cases
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Sessions announced that he intended to review consent decrees in which local law enforcement agencies had agreed to Department oversight
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Sessions told reporters that sanctuary cities failing to comply with policies of the Trump administration would lose federal funding, and cited the shooting of Kathryn Steinle as an example of an illegal immigrant commit
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FBI director James Comey testified in front of the House Intelligence Committee that since July 2016, the FBI had been conducting a counter-intelligence investigation to assess the extent of Russia's interference into th
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Sessions oversaw the firing of 46 United States attorneys
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Claimed: ““In fact, today, more than 300 people, according to the FBI, who came here as refugees are under an FBI investigation today for potential terrorism-related activities.”” — rated Three Pinocchios by The Washington Post.
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Sessions announced that he would recuse himself from any investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, or any other matters related to the 2016 presidential election
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Reports surfaced that Sessions had contact with Russian government officials during the 2016 U
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Saying "I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign
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Sessions was confirmed as attorney general by a vote of 52 to 47
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Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell stopped Senator Elizabeth Warren from reading statements opposing Sessions's nomination as federal judge that had been made by Ted Kennedy and Coretta Scott King
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The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on his nomination began and were interrupted by protesters
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Career landmark: United States senator (2017–2017).
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Career landmark: United States Attorney General (2017–2018).
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“amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the President of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and Constitutional power”
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“s interference in the 2016 presidential election, or any other matters related to the 2016 presidential election. He had been advised to do so by career Justice Department personnel, citing concerns about impartiality given his prominent role in the Trump election campaign. When told that a special counsel had been appointed, the president slumped back in his chair and said,”
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“I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign. I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false.”
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2016· 7 entries
That he would nominate Sessions to be Attorney General of the United States
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When they met in Sessions's office; Sessions said they discussed Ukraine and terrorism
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Sessions officially endorsed Trump for president
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Campaign: 2016 presidential election.
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“in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election”
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“not forgive the Senate if we further expose our Constitution to revision and rewrite by judicial fiat to advance what President Obama says is a broader vision of what America should be”
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When he applied for his security clearance
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2015· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2015–2017).
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded member of the Alabama Academy of Honor (2014).
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Sessions was uncontested in the Republican primary and was only opposed in the general election by write-in Democratic candidate Victor Sanchez Williams
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2013· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2013–2015).
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2011· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2011–2013).
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2010· 1 entry
“I do not think that a person who acknowledges that they have gay tendencies is disqualified, per se, for the job”
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2009· 3 entries
Sessions was selected to be the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee
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Sessions said he remained convinced that he did the right thing, but admitted he "failed to make the case"
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Career landmark: United States senator (2009–2011).
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2008· 1 entry
Sessions defeated Democratic state senator Vivian Davis Figures (sister-in-law of Thomas Figures, the assistant U
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2007· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2007–2009).
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2005· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2005–2007).
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2003· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2003–2005).
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2002· 2 entries
Became the first Republican reelected to the Senate from Alabama since Reconstruction (given that his colleague Richard Shelby, who won reelection as a Republican in 1998, had previously run as a Democrat, switching p
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Sessions won reelection by defeating Democratic state auditor Susan Parker
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2001· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2001–2003).
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1999· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1999–2001).
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“should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until a new president is elected”
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1997· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1997–1999).
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1996· 1 entry
Sessions won the Republican primary for U
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1995· 2 entries
Career landmark: Attorney General of Alabama (1995–1997).
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Sessions defended a newly passed state law denying access to meeting space and student group funding for Gay-Straight Alliances at the state's public universities, stating that "an organization that professes to be compr
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1993· 1 entry
Sessions resigned his post after Democrat Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States
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1992· 1 entry
Figures was charged with attempting to bribe a witness by offering $50,000 to a convicted drug dealer who was to testify against his client
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1990· 1 entry
“there is no higher duty than protecting our nation”
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1986· 4 entries
The committee voted 10–8 against recommending the nomination to the Senate floor, with Republican senators Charles Mathias of Maryland and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania voting with the Democrats
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Reagan nominated Sessions to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama
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President Ronald Reagan nominated Sessions to a judgeship on the U
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“This country does not discriminate. No president, no officer in this country should hold office that has any hint of treating people differently because of the color of their skin or where they came from and that kind of thing. We believe in equality and fair treatment and that's the moral principle that we adhere to as a nation.”
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1985· 1 entry
Sessions prosecuted three African American community organizers in the Black Belt of Alabama, including Martin Luther King Jr
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1981· 2 entries
President Reagan nominated him to be the U
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Career landmark: United States Attorney (1981–1993).
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1973· 1 entry
Studied at University of Alabama School of Law, Juris Doctor (1973).
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1969· 1 entry
Studied at Huntingdon College, Bachelor of Arts (1965–1969).
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1964· 1 entry
Sessions became an Eagle Scout, and later, he earned the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award for his many years of service
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1946· 2 entries
Born 1946-12-24.
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The son of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions Jr
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