Transition official: Sessions has accepted Trump's offer to serve as Attorney General

Record ID: 78341

  • Title: Transition official: Sessions has accepted Trump's offer to serve as Attorney General
  • Date: 18th November 2016
  • Summary: FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - OCTOBER 4, 2016) (REUTERS) SESSIONS SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
  • Embargoed: 3rd December 2016 14:02
  • Keywords: Jeff Sessions Attorney General Transition Donald Trump
  • Location: HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA/FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA/ CLEVELAND, OHIO, UNITED STATES
  • City: HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA/FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA/ CLEVELAND, OHIO, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA00258Z2CSN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, a transition official said on Friday.
    The transition official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the announcement would be made formally on Friday.
    Sessions has accepted Trump's offer, the official said.
    In choosing Sessions as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Trump would award a loyalist whose hard-line and at times inflammatory statements on immigration were similar to his own. Sessions opposes any path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and was an enthusiastic backer of Trump's promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico.
    Sessions, 69, a former Alabama attorney general and U.S. attorney, has received a telephone call offering him the job, according to CBS News.
    Bloomberg reported a Trump aide called Senator Ted Cruz, another possible contender for the job, on Thursday night to tell him Sessions would get the position.
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