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}}'''Jefferson "Jeff" Sessions''' is the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]'s [[United States Senate|US Senator]] from Alabama.<ref>''[http://gawker.com/hardline-anti-immigration-reform-senator-jeff-sessions-1761845361 "Hardline Anti-Immigration Reform Senator Jeff Sessions Endorses Trump"]''</ref> In 2009, ''[[The Guardian]]'' said he was "known to be one of the most consistently conservative legislators on Capitol Hill."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/05/jeff-sessions-arlen-specter-judiciary-committee</ref>
  
'''Jefferson "Jeff" Sessions''' (born 24 December 1946) is the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]'s [[United States Senate|US Senator]] from Alabama.<ref>''[http://gawker.com/hardline-anti-immigration-reform-senator-jeff-sessions-1761845361 "Hardline Anti-Immigration Reform Senator Jeff Sessions Endorses Trump"]''</ref> In 2009, ''[[The Guardian]]'' said he was "known to be one of the most consistently conservative legislators on Capitol Hill."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/05/jeff-sessions-arlen-specter-judiciary-committee</ref>
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==Career==
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===US Attorney General===
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Jeff Sessions became [[United States Attorney General]] on February 9, 2017, under [[Donald Trump]]. On 10 March 2017 he asked the remaining 46 chief federal prosecutors left over from the Obama administration to resign.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/11/jeffsessions-asks-46-obama-era-us-attorneys-resign/</ref> In May{{cn}} he asked [[James Comey]] to resign.<ref>http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-was-behind-the-firing-of-fbi-director-james-comey-what-political-interests-are-being-served-who-is-andrew-mccabe/5589386</ref>
  
On 18 November 2016, the Presidential transition team announced via a press release that [[President-elect Trump]] had picked Sessions as his designee for [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]].<ref>''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38027519 "Trump election: Jeff Sessions picked for top law job"]''</ref>
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In January 2018, he announced he would allow federal prosecutors to crack down on [[marijuana]] businesses in states that have legalized the drug, a decision which resulted in a strong bipartisan backlash, "splitting the GOP and bolstering Democrats and others who favor legalization."<ref>https://www.alternet.org/drugs/4-unexpected-ways-experts-predict-sessions-reefer-madness-decision-might-shake-out-2018</ref>
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==Cheney Loophole==
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A January 2017 article entitled "How Jeff Sessions Profited from Introducing a Fracking Exemption for Drinking Water Rules" suggested Sessions and his family profited from introducing the "[[Cheney Loophole]]" to exempt the [[fracking]] industry from the [[Safe Drinking Water Act]].<ref>https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/10/jeff-sessions-fracking-drinking-water-rules-cashed-in</ref>
 
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Latest revision as of 15:01, 11 January 2020

Person.png Jeff Sessions   History Commons Website WikiquoteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Jeff Sessions.jpg
BornJefferson Beauregard Sessions III
24 December 1946
Selma, Alabama, U.S.
NationalityUS
Alma materHuntingdon College, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
ReligionUnited Methodist
Children3
SpouseMary Blackshear
Member ofHouse and Senate Taiwan Caucus
PartyRepublican

Employment.png United States Attorney General

In office
February 9, 2017 - November 7, 2018
DeputyDana Boente, Rod Rosenstein
Preceded byDana Boente

Employment.png United States Senator from Alabama

In office
January 3, 1997 - February 8, 2017

Employment.png Attorney General of Alabama

In office
January 16, 1995 - January 3, 1997

Jefferson "Jeff" Sessions is the Republican Party's US Senator from Alabama.[1] In 2009, The Guardian said he was "known to be one of the most consistently conservative legislators on Capitol Hill."[2]

Career

US Attorney General

Jeff Sessions became United States Attorney General on February 9, 2017, under Donald Trump. On 10 March 2017 he asked the remaining 46 chief federal prosecutors left over from the Obama administration to resign.[3] In May[citation needed] he asked James Comey to resign.[4]

In January 2018, he announced he would allow federal prosecutors to crack down on marijuana businesses in states that have legalized the drug, a decision which resulted in a strong bipartisan backlash, "splitting the GOP and bolstering Democrats and others who favor legalization."[5]

Cheney Loophole

Full article: Cheney Loophole

A January 2017 article entitled "How Jeff Sessions Profited from Introducing a Fracking Exemption for Drinking Water Rules" suggested Sessions and his family profited from introducing the "Cheney Loophole" to exempt the fracking industry from the Safe Drinking Water Act.[6]

 

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