10 things to know about Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's pick for attorney general
By Amber Phillips The Washington Post
Published Nov. 21, 2016
WASHINGTON - In Donald Trump's world, most roads, it seems, lead back to Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., President-elect Trump's pick for attorney general.
After Sessions became one of the first members of Congress to endorse Trump this February, he became an adviser on almost every major decision and policy proposal Trump made during the campaign:
• A top Sessions aide helped Trump communicate his immigration policy.
• Sessions chaired Trump national security advisory committee.
• Sessions advised Trump on who to choose for vice president. (Sessions was also in the running himself for the No. 2 job.)
"The president-elect has been unbelievably impressed with Senator Sessions and his phenomenal record as Alabama's attorney general and U.S. attorney," a Trump transition statement released Thursday read. "It is no wonder the people of Alabama re-elected him without opposition."
Here's a crash course in a politician likely to be a pivotal figure in Trump's administration:
The basics: Sessions has served as a senator from Alabama for two decades. But Alabama is such a loyal state to its top lawmakers that Sessions is actually the junior senator from the state; Republican Sen. Richard Shelby has been in office three decades.
Sessions is popular back home: Aside from his first election in 1996, Sessions has never won with less than 59 percent of the vote. In 2014, he ran unopposed.
His middle name is: "Beauregard." (Fun trivia fact.)
He's "amnesty's worst enemy": The conservative National Review crowned Sessions with that title in 2014, with good reason. Sessions has opposed nearly every immigration bill that has come before the Senate the past two decades that has included a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally....
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