Trump offers controversial Jeff Sessions attorney general job
Donald Trump has reportedly offered the job of attorney general to Republican Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.
As Donald Trump continues to build his presidential cabinet now that he has been elected to be the next president of the United States, he has reportedly offered the job of attorney general to Republican Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.
The pick is particularly controversial because Sessions was rejected in 1986 from being a federal judge because of allegedly racist comments that he made. And yet Sessions, who has taken a hardline stance on immigration, would be in charge of law enforcement across the country as well as the enforcement of immigration laws.
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Sessions ran into trouble in the 1980s when he was nominated by President Ronald Reagan for a federal judge position and, during the nomination process, it was discovered that Sessions called a black attorney “boy,” said a white civil rights lawyer was a race traitor, claimed jokingly that he liked the Ku Klux Klan until he found out they smoked marijuana, and called civil rights groups “un-American” organizations trying to “force civil rights down the throats of people who were trying to put problems behind them.”
“Not only would Jeff bring integrity and immense expertise to the role of Attorney General due to his decades of experience in the legal field and an impressive tenure on the Senate Judiciary Committee, but Jeff has also gained the deep respect of his Senate colleagues for his commitment to upholding the rule of law,” Senator Richard Shelby said in a statement Thursday. “My wife Annette and I are proud of Jeff’s accomplishments and wish him and his wife Mary the very best during this exciting transition.”
