The Jeff Sessions Story

   By Florida Bill  

                                                Get ready for a conservative bulldozer driven by Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III.  This popular four term U.S. Senator from Alabama and the first senator to endorse the candidacy of Donald Trump, has, after much delay, been sworn in as Attorney General. 
                                                With the beginning of the "Summer of Trump"  last year, Sessions jumped to the center of the action.  He was fiercely on the side of the real estate mogul who had exploded onto the political scene denouncing illegal Mexican aliens, and promising to build a wall on the southern border, and to "Make America Great Again."
                                                 Ten days after his election on November 8,  Trump announced that he would be appointing Sen. Sessions as Attorney General and that Sessions would be directing the activities of the Department of Justice of the United States, with the mission of "draining the swamp." 
                                                 The 69-year-old senator, an able and experienced lawyer, has a full plate of things to do to implement the 'law and order" policies and promises spelled-out by Trump during a hard-fought and successful campaign which extended over some 18 months. 
                                                  Sessions, who turned 70 on Christmas Eve of this election year, will be focusing on drug cartels and illegal aliens with felonies hanging over their heads and the quickest way to deport or prosecute them; and he will be laying the legal ground work for taking on sanctuary cities and shaking them until they accede to federal law.  Urban bosses like the liberal and discordant mayors of San Francisco, New York and Chicago, will now be "financially squeezed like grapefruits" into doing what the new President says is right and required by and in accord with federal statutes, a Trump supporter has said.
                                                   During the campaign, Trump labeled his opponent "Crooked Hillary" and promised her prosecution in a new Trump administration.  However,  he has apparently rolled  back on that issue, explaining that that there are other more important matters needing his attention, and that he has no desire to hurt Mrs. Clinton.   However, it is not the President's determination as to who gets prosecuted and who does not.  That discretion belongs solely to the Attorney General, and consequently, it will be up to Sessions to decide if Mrs. Clinton is to be prosecuted for her mishandling of classified emails, or for her alleged corrupt practices related to the "Clinton Foundation" with its billion dollar corpus.  
                                                 As a key member of the President's cabinet,  Sessions' appointment as Attorney General will require confirmation by the Senate in accord with federal law.   But with Republicans having a majority in that upper chamber of Congress, his approval  to serve is expected, although some Democrats are serving notice that they will oppose approval of their former colleague to the sensitive post of Attorney General.
                                                  Predictably,  liberal Democratic members will draw the racist card and accuse the senator who was born and raised in Selma, of having treated African Americans and other minorities with contempt and disdain while serving as the U.S. Attorney from the southern district of Alabama for 12 years, and for two years as attorney general from that state.  While Sessions maintains that he has always been fair to citizens, he has always opposed amnesty as a path to citizenship for undocumented residents.   His disagreement with open borders and his consistent opposition to the liberal, appeasement policies of President Obama are in sync with that of the President-elect. 
                                                In 1986, Sessions, who was then a U.S. Attorney, was nominated to be a federal judge by President Reagan. During confirmation hearings for that judicial post,  he was accused of being a racist and had opposed and was intolerant of the LGBT community and had once called an African American lawyer "boy."  Sessions said accusations against him were either fabricated or based on comments taken out of context.  Subsequently, his nomination was withdrawn without final vote of the democratic controlled senate. 
                                                  The ink was barely dry on Trump's declaration that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in the late spring of 2015 when Sen Sessions locked hands with "outsider" Trump, and said he was with him for the long run.  An astute lawyer and a patriot of America, Sessions counseled Trump through the primaries and during the hard fought campaign against Clinton who spent about billion dollars to get elected.   Just days following the the election, Trump announced that the tough native of Selma was his pick as attorney general to replace the incompetent and duplicitous Loretta Lynch whose behavior in that office included significant violations of legal ethics and who voiced sympathy and "compassion" for the Islamic mad men whose goal is to turn planet earth into a global caliphate.  America and the world, will be a safer place with Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, Trump has said. 
                                                      As Attorney General, Sessions will be directing and monitoring the FBI which is the investigative arm of the justice department.  FBI Director James Comey, who was appointed to the 10-year post by President Obama in 2013, reportedly is in a state of political limbo. In Trump's judgment, Comey "caved-in" to Democratic pressure in the Clinton email investigation.  For Democrats, they charge that but for his unprofessional behavior,  Clinton would be President. Veteran bureaucrats have opined that the 55-year-old Comey is '"twisting slowly in the wind," and may resign.
                                                      Spirited and eager, Sessions has always been an achiever.  An Eagle Scout and student body president at Huntington college in Montgomery, Sessions later attended the University of Alabama law school,  graduating in 1973.  He was a captain in the army reserves and worked for a time for an Alabama law firm.  In 1981, Pres. Reagan appointed him United States Attorney from the southern district of Alabama and he served in that capacity until 1992 when he was elected attorney general of the state.  In 1994, he was elected a senator from Alabama and he was reelected three more times to that office.  In his last race for that office in 2014, he was reelected without opposition from the Democrats. 
                                                       

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