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George Will's latest WaPo column looks to Alabama to discuss the contemporary Republican Party, The GOP has become the party of the grotesque : Southern Gothic is a literary genre and, occasionally, a political style that, like the genre, blends strangeness and irony. Consider the current primary campaign to pick the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions.
Today, Trussville residents were able to come meet Rep. Mo Brooks from the fifth district of Alabama at Jim 'N Nick's BBQ where the congressman had lunch while on his "Drain the Swamp" tour across the state. "I feel good about Mo meeting the people," said Cameron Mixon, a member of College Republicans, "Unlike the others, he's going out to meet the voters, try to earn their vote and not try to buy their vote."
If cities want assistance as part of the Justice Department's new initiative to curb violent crime, they will have to help federal authorities tamp down on illegal immigration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday. In a statement, the Justice Department said that cities can be selected for the Public Safety Partnership - which sends federal experts to work on crime-fighting efforts with their local counterparts - only if the cities "show a commitment to reducing crime stemming from illegal immigration."
The new White House chief of staff called the attorney general, reassuring him that his position was safe despite criticism he has taken from Trump. John Kelly called Jeff Sessions to assure him job is safe The new White House chief of staff called the attorney general, reassuring him that his position was safe despite criticism he has taken from Trump.
New White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told Attorney General Jeff Sessions last weekend that his job was safe after Sessions endured several weeks of sharp public criticism from President Donald Trump, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly stands before a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., July 31, 2017.
Sessions: US prosecutors will help addiction-ravaged cities The Justice Department will dispatch 12 federal prosecutors to cities ravaged by addiction. Check out this story on portclintonnewsherald.com: http://ohne.ws/2vtIblf Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, July 31, 2017, in Washington.
The Justice Department will dispatch 12 federal prosecutors to cities ravaged by addiction who will focus exclusively on investigating health care fraud and opioid scams that are fueling the nation's drug abuse epidemic, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday. He unveiled the pilot program during a speech in hard-hit Ohio, where eight people a day die of accidental overdoses.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that President Donald Trump has "100 percent confidence" in all of his Cabinet members, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose performance Trump has repeatedly publicly criticized . Sanders was asked during a White House briefing about rumors that Trump could move Sessions to lead the Department of Homeland Security, where there is now a vacancy after Trump's appointment of Secretary John Kelly as his new White House chief of staff.
Democrats are worried President Donald Trump wants to remove the nation's top lawyer, Attorney General Jeff Sessions , during the August recess to make way for someone who would be willing to fire the special prosecutor leading the charge into the 2016 election hacking investigation without first being confirmed by the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , D- New York , said Monday on the Senate floor that "if such a scenario were to pass, we would have a constitutional crisis on our hands."
Republicans raged over what they called the White House's weak and dangerous decision last week to prosecute in federal court a man suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda, rather than shipping him off to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Sorry, wrong year.
If you're curious where Alabama voters, by and large, fall on the topic of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, consider this: "And to a striking degree in a state where Mr. Trump won 62 percent of the vote last fall, Republicans and Democrats alike have closed ranks around Mr. Sessions, who was the state attorney general before he won a Senate seat four times and joined the president's cabinet. Interviews with voters from four counties, three of which supported Mr. Trump, revealed near-absolute confidence in Mr. Sessions's virtue and conservatism, a swelling of state pride and, in this case at least, an encroaching skepticism of the president."
President Donald Trump has described himself as "a loyalty freak" and told interviewers that it is the trait he cares about most when hiring an employee. "We could use some more loyalty, I will tell you that," he said at the Boy Scout Jamboree last week.
They met more than a decade ago, when the genteel junior senator from Alabama invited the brash real estate mogul to testify on Capitol Hill about the renovation of the United Nations. Jeff Sessions was taken by Donald Trump, calling him a "breath of fresh air for this Senate."
America's top law enforcement officer wandered through a Salvadoran jail, sizing up the tattooed gang members who sat with their backs to him on the concrete floors of their cells. His soft voice was barely audible over the downpour pelting the tin roof as he spoke to the local police.
For the past six years or so, I've been sifting through each week to find the single person who had the absolute "Worst Week in Washington." Sometimes it's easy -- one person just steps to the front and snatches the award.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he hopes his efforts to fight gang violence will help mend fences with President Donald Trump after a series of public rebukes by Trump. Sessions says the anti-gang effort is one of many issues on which he and the president share a commitment.
After being berated for a week by President Donald Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday he will stay in the job for as long as Trump wants him to serve. Sessions told the Associated Press he and Trump have a "harmony of values and beliefs" and he intends to stay and fight for the president's agenda "as long as he sees that as appropriate."
His loyalty to the boss severely tested but seemingly intact, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday he will stay in the job for as long as President Donald Trump wants him to serve. Sessions said that he and Trump have a "harmony of values and beliefs" and that he intends to stay and fight for the president's agenda "as long as he sees that as appropriate."
U.S. Senator Luther Strange and former Chief Justice Roy Moore are in a statistical tie less than three weeks before the Republican Primary for a statewide special election for Alabama's U.S. Senate, according to an exclusive new poll by the Raycom News Network and Strategy Research out of Mobile. The crowded Republican field finds only three candidates with double digit support.
President Trump continued mercilessly berating Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Twitter yesterday, even as the former Alabama senator showed no signs of relinquishing his post and fellow GOPers raced to defend him, including one who denounced the president's tactics as "public waterboarding." "Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got big dollars for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives," tweeted the president yesterday.