United States Senate confirms Jeff Sessions as United States Attorney General

The Senate on Feb. 8 confirmed Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post)

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Written by Ellen Nakashima

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 conservative, populist views have shaped many of the administration’s early policies, including on immigration.


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