Sessions’ 1986 Confirmation Hearing Tinged With Racism Allegations

When Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his expected confirmation hearing after being tapped to be President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general, it won't be his first time in front of that panel. Two decades ago, Sessions, then a U.S. attorney from Mobile, Ala., appeared before the body as President Ronald Reagan's nominee for the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama.

Clinton-tied group files ethics complaint against Jeff Sessions

U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions joins Donald Trump on stage at a rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala., on August 21, 2015. A "dark money ally" of Hillary Clinton is calling on the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., alleging Alabama's junior senator violated Senate rules for casting doubt on the legitimacy of the upcoming election, according to a complaint filed by the group on Monday.

Trump called Bill Clinton’s accusers terrible losers: ‘He is really a victim’

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump removes his hat to show that his hair is real during a political rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on August 21, 2015 in Mobile, Alabama WASHINGTON - Confronted with a videotape in which he appeared to be bragging about sexually assaulting women, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump responded by lashing out at rival Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton.