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Jeff Sessions

November 2023

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June 2021

  • Jeff Sessions loses run-off election to Tommy Tuberville<br>epa08546576 Former United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions prepares to give remarks after losing the run-off election for the Republican Senate nomination for Alabama to Tommy Tuberville in Mobile, Alabama, USA, 14 July 2020. Tuberville will run against incumbent Democratic Senator Doug Jones during the general election in November 2020. EPA/DAN ANDERSON

    House investigates possible shadow operation in Trump justice department

  • FILES-US-POLITICS-LAW<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 15, 2019 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (L) holds a press conference with Chairman of the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Adam Schiff, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. - US House speaker Nancy Pelosi on June 13, 2021 demanded that two former attorneys general testify about what she called a “rogue” Justice Department attempt to secretly obtain data from Democrat lawmakers and news outlets. “What the (Trump) administration did -- the Justice Department, the leadership of the former president -- goes even beyond Richard Nixon,” she said on CNN, referring to the Watergate scandal that ended the Nixon presidency. (Photo by Eric BARADAT / AFP) (Photo by ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)

    Pelosi: ‘beyond belief’ that Trump DoJ chiefs didn’t know of secret subpoenas

May 2021

  • Jeff Sessions at a news conference in March 2017. The three reporters were looking at documents that suggested Sessions, before he became attorney general, had spoken to Russian envoy Sergey Kislyak.

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    Newspaper ‘deeply troubled’ by revelation that records were secretly obtained over three months in 2017

January 2021

  • Jeff Sessions loses run-off election to Tommy Tuberville<br>epaselect epa08546579 Former United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions prepares to give remarks after losing the run-off election for the Republican Senate nomination for Alabama to Tommy Tuberville in Mobile, Alabama, USA, 14 July 2020. Tuberville will run against incumbent Democratic Senator Doug Jones during the general election in November 2020. EPA/DAN ANDERSON

    Jeff Sessions impeded inquiry into role in Trump’s family separation policy

    Former attorney general declined to be interviewed by DoJ’s inspector general, according to a report

July 2020

  • Jeff Sessions was defeated in a runoff election on Tuesday.

    Jeff Sessions loses GOP nomination for his old Alabama Senate seat

    The 73-year-old held the seat for two decades before resigning to become Donald Trump’s attorney general in 2017

May 2020

  • Jeff Sessions speaks in Mobile, Alabama in March

    Trump: Sessions was not 'mentally qualified' to be attorney general

  • Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions button their coats as they stand for the national anthem at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia in December 2017

    Jeff Sessions snaps back after Trump tells Alabama not to trust him

March 2020

  • Supporters react as former U.S. Attorney General and Republican senate candidate Jeff Sessions speaks in Mobile<br>Supporters of former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions react as Sessions speaks after results are announced for his candidacy in the Republican Party U.S. Senate primary in Mobile, Alabama, U.S. March 3, 2020. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Jeff Sessions’ run-off and a Bush's loss: Super Tuesday races you may have missed

    While all the attention was focused on the Democratic primaries, other races played out across the US

November 2019

  • Jeff Sessions<br>FILE - In this May 9, 2109, file photo, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions smiles during a farewell ceremony for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the Great Hall at the Department of Justice in Washington. Sessions is exploring the possibility of a run for his former Senate seat in Alabama. Two people with knowledge of Sessions’ thinking say he has made telephone calls exploring the possibility of running for old Senate seat. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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July 2019

  • Jared Kushner<br>White House senior adviser Jared Kushner listens as he attends a working breakfast with President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in Osaka, Japan, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

    House panel votes to subpoena Kushner and other Trump officials

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April 2019

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January 2019

  • Richard Wolffe

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November 2018

  • Matt Whitaker<br>Acting United States Attorney General Matt Whitaker, center, attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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  • Jeff Sessions

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