HOORAY! At last the US has a top AG.
The Senate confirmed Alabama Sen. Jeff
Sessions to be
President
Trump's attorney general on Wednesday night, over sustained but ultimately
futile Democratic complaints that Sessions worked against minority interests
when he was a U.S. attorney for Alabama, and that he's too close to Trump to
enforce the law independently from the White House.
The
Senate easily confirmed Sessions in a party-line 52-47 vote, and was helped by
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who had said he would support Sessions' nomination.
Sessions
himself voted "present," and was met by applause from Republicans
after the vote total was read out.
Sessions
will participate in a swearing-in ceremony with Trump in the Oval Office at
10:30 a.m. Thursday, according to the White House.
