Donald Trump has chosen Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as U.S. attorney general, a transition official has confirmed to the public.
Sessions has accepted the honor, touching off quite the debate between Democrats and Republicans.
The Senator has a history of racially-charged comments, even joking one time that he was fine with the Ku Klux Klan until he learned that members smoked pot.
In selection Sessions as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, Donald Trump is awarding a loyalist whose hard-line and at times inflammatory statements on immigration are very similar to his own.
Sessions opposes pretty much any path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and was an enthusiastic backer of Trump’s vow to build a wall on the border with Mexico.
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