WASHINGTON — The US Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions as attorney general Wednesday, despite fierce debate about his civil rights record and Democratic concern over whether he serves as the nation’s top law enforcement officer independent from President Donald Trump. He appeared particularly angered by the delay on Sessions, who as attorney general would wield enormous power regarding the administration of justice, including on the issue of voting rights. "Congratulations to our new attorney general," Trump tweeted shortly after the vote. He was a US prosecutor from 1981 to 1993, before serving as the state’s attorney general. Sessions’s "history of opposing civil rights, anti-gun violence measures and immigration reform makes him uniquely ill-fitted to serve" as attorney general, Murphy said.

Source: Viet Nam News February 09, 2017 03:42 UTC