Alabama’s Senator Jeff Sessions is Trump’s pick for Attorney General

November 18, 2016

Collins Parker,

NEW YORK (WDEF) – CBS News is reporting that the Donald Trump transition team has asked Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as U.S. Attorney General.

That would make him the top prosecutor in the land.

Sessions was a prosecutor in southern Alabama, a U.S. Attorney, and Alabama Attorney General before running for the U.S. Senate in 1998.

He lives in Mobile.

Senator Sessions was an early Trump supporter, bonding with him over trade and immigration issues.

The Senator met with the transition team

"Jeff Sessions, Alabama Senator… strong loyalist, intense conservative – the next Attorney General."–@MajorCBS https://t.co/dnchoYV6u6 pic.twitter.com/o03Qg58Pv1

— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 18, 2016