Jeff Sessions

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Jefferson Beauregard "Ku Klux Keebler" Sessions III (1946–) is a former United States Senator from Alabama and U.S. Attorney General under Donald Trump. He was born on December 24, 1946 (before the beginning of the civil rights movement, which explains his racist anti-immigrant[2], conservative views). He asked for the resignation of 46 Obama-era U.S attorneys in 2017.[3]

Basically he wanted to put the police above the law so that they could railroad and kill anyone they wanted.[4]

He was fired by Donald Trump on November 7, 2018, right after Democrats won the House in the midterm elections, and temporarily replaced by Matthew Whitaker, his chief of staff.[5] In 2020, Sessions attempted to regain his old Senate seat, but was soundly defeated in the primary election by political newcomer Tommy Tuberville,[6] by over 20%.

Senator from Alabama[edit]

As a US Senator, he was a far more reliable "conservative extremist" than his former counterpart, Richard Shelby. When Ronald Reagan wanted to make him a federal judge, a number of witnesses came forward to say that he had made some truly disgusting racist remarks, such as that he thought the Ku Klux Klan was "OK until I found out they smoked pot."[7] Sessions, obviously, is also a proponent of the War on Drugs and said that "good people don't smoke marijuana" on the Senate floor. Racist remarks may be one thing, but deeds are quite another: Sessions basically spent his whole career opposing the Voting Rights Act.[8]


He is also apparently pro-torture[9] and pro-gang rape, at least as practiced by defense contractors.[10] He has also apparently helped Trump draft his immigration policies.[11]

He also says that it is bad that "mentally retarded" people don't have the death penalty.[12]

Attorney General of the United States[edit]

Jeff Sessions was nominated to be Attorney General of the United States in 2017 by the newly elected President Donald Trump. He was confirmed in the Senate by a 52-47 vote, with people voicing concerns over his racial insensitivity and hostility to civil rights.[13] He immediately ushered in a new era at the Department of Justice. He threatened "sanctuary cities" with loss of federal funding and pushed for a policy of "zero tolerance" for people crossing the U.S.-Mexican border illegally.[13] He decried what he considered to be a crime wave spreading across the country when criminologists insisted that incidents of homicide and assault remained at almost historic lows.[13] He ordered federal prosecutors to seek the most stringent penalties against drug criminals in a stark reversal of a bipartisan policy from Barack Obama.[13]

Sessions referred Romans 13 to justify his inhumane policy, supported by Trump, to separate (primarily Hispanic) immigrant children from their parents at the border:[14] In a speech before law enforcement in 2018, he stated:


Sessions was apparently referring to Romans 13:1 ("Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.") Romans 13 has been used previously both as a justification by British loyalists against the American Revolution and by slave owners to justify slavery,[14][15] but the passage has a longer history as a cover for oppression.[15]

Trump-Russia investigation[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Trump-Russia connection

When Trump fired FBI director James Comey after the latter refused to terminate the ongoing criminal investigation into the former's possible collusion with Russia in the 2016 Presidential election, triggering the appointment of former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III as Special Counsel, Sessions recused himself, citing a conflict of interest.[13] Thus the responsibility of overseeing the Special Counsel investigation fell to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Sessions maintained that his Department of Justice "will not be improperly influenced by political considerations."[13]

In November 2018, he resigned after being requested by the President, who called him "very weak" and "disgraceful".[5] Trump insisted that Sessions "should have never recused himself."[13] Sessions' chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, is his acting replacement. Whitaker's responsibilities include the oversight of the ongoing Russia probe. It is still unclear what this means for Rosenstein.[13]

See Also[edit]


  1. 10 Things Jeff Sessions Looks Like
  2. 100% USBC rating
  5. 5.0 5.1 Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions. BBC News. November 7, 2018.
  6. Jeff Sessions Loses Comeback Bid For Alabama Senate Seat. NPR, 14 July 2020.
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  8. Jeff Sessions Has Spent His Whole Career Opposing Voting Rights by Ari Berman (January 10, 2017) The Nation.
  9. For the record
  10. Voted Against Al Franken's KBR Reining in amendment, which specifically prohibited the US government from using contractors that had a contract clause preventing themselves from being sued if their employee was raped.
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 Jeff Sessions Forced Out As Attorney General After Constant Criticism From Trump. NPR. November 7, 2018.
  14. 14.0 14.1 Sessions cites Bible passage used to defend slavery in defense of separating immigrant families by Julie Zauzmer & Keith McMillan (June 15, 2018 at 5:49 AM) The Washington Post.
  15. 15.0 15.1 The Fight to Define Romans 13Jeff Sessions used it to justify his policy of family separation, but he’s not the first to invoke the biblical passage. by Lincoln Mullen (June 15, 2018, 10:25 AM ET) The Atlantic.