Jeff Sessions, the former U.S. attorney general who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration, will be among a ...

His Senate vote had been briefly delayed by a ... as attorney general in November 2018 after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned under pressure from Trump and was head of DOJ until ...

He was confirmed by the Senate on a vote of 52-45. Whitaker had been chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions during Trump's first term and then was chosen to become acting attorney ...