Jeff Sessions Research Paper

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On December 24, 1946 Jeff Sessions was born in Selma, Alabama. Throughout Sessions life he was an attorney for Alabama for 20 years. Sessions first big break outside of Alabama is the nomination for district court from President Ronald Reagan.This nomination was rejected because of allegations that Sessions had praised the KKK and he said criticized the ACLU and the NAACP. Eventually Sessions got his seat in the Senate in 1996, he then went on to win three more terms. Sessions was also the first Senator to support Donald Trump in running for president. After Trump won through the Electoral college, Sessions was nominated for U.S. attorney general (Berman, R, 2018). Jeff Sessions full name is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, he is the son of a general store owner and nicknamed “Buddy.” Sessions attended high school at Wilcox County High School in Camden, Alabama. He later became his class president and played football. Sessions studied at Huntingdon College where he graduated in 1969. After graduating from Huntingdon Sessions attended the University of Alabama, he graduated with his Juris Doctorate …show more content…

Sessions ended up running against President George W. Bush’s immigration reform in 2007 even though he was a supporter of tax cuts. Sessions did not support the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, this act “enables individuals to challenge continuing pay discrimination, ensuring both that employees are not penalized if they are initially unaware of the discrimination and that they remain able to challenge pay discrimination that is compounded by raises, pensions, and other contributions over time,” (“Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,” n.d.). Sessions also did not support the Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Jeff Sessions,

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