The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions at attorney general Wednesday night following a contentious debate and a stream of controversy about the immigration hard-liner having a racist past.

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Senator Kamala Harris will pull from her lengthy legal career to lay the groundwork against confirming Sen. Jeff Sessions.

GOP Senators voted to "rebuke" the Massachusetts Senator, prompting her to take to Twitter and read an opposition letter from Coretta Scott King aloud on Facebook Live.

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Cornell Brooks, President of the NAACP, and other activists were arrested on Monday for staging a sit-in at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ office.

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The U.S. Senate approved a budget resolution that would allow Republicans to swiftly reform the Affordable Care Act.

In a letter, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr. crafted a scathing critique of Sessions saying that to grant him a federal judgeship would “irreparably damage the work of my husband.”

More than 1,300 law professors signed an open letter protesting Jeff Sessions' nomination. They voice concerns about his record.

The police ended an NAACP sit-in at Sen. Jeff Sessions' office. They were protesting his attorney general nomination.

GOP Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions was once rejected as a federal judge over allegations he called a Black attorney “boy.”

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Here is a list of some of the possible Executive Branch appointments being touted for President-elect Trump's administration.