| Jeff Sessions, who has helped shape many of Trump’s early policies, is confirmed as attorney general after a bitter Senate debate |
| The Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general following a heated debate in the chamber that saw Republicans formally rebuke Sen. Elizabeth Warren for the manner in which she criticized the senator from Alabama. Sessions is already deeply influential in the Trump White House, with his aides and allies pushing for some of Trump’s most controversial moves, including the ban on refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. His career has long been shadowed by accusations that he is racially insensitive, charges that doomed his bid to become a federal judge. |
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