Trump Taps Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions For U.S. Attorney General

BREAKING: Senior Trump official says Trump has offered Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions the job of attorney general.

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 18, 2016

It’s Friday, a week and a half after the election and The Donald is making several key appointments today. Despite all the hooplah about his transition, he’s actually on par time-wise with how other transitions have played out. One of those key appointments is Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to U.S. Attorney General.

Sessions was the first Senator to endorse Trump. He has a bit of a controversial past, having been denied judgeship in the 80s because of some racisty stuff.

Donald Trump’s AG nominee, Jeff Sessions. Y’all will see a recurring theme about the KKK. I. Will. Not. Normalize. THIS! pic.twitter.com/YpI1mrHoU7

— Angela Rye! (@angela_rye) November 18, 2016

Jeff Sessions was too racist to be a judge so Donald Trump just made him America’s top cop. Any questions?

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) November 18, 2016

Also, not a huge Roe v Wade guy.

Jeff Sessions: “Roe v. Wade represents one of the worse, colossally erroneous Supreme Court decisions of all time.” https://t.co/tkuv0apvcX pic.twitter.com/VOfxUykzXt

— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) November 18, 2016

Also, not a big immigration guy.

Sen. Sessions is widely respected in the Senate, but loathed by immigration reform activists. Single biggest opponent to amnesty

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) November 18, 2016

If you want to know more, there’s a pretty good list here of the top things to know. Trump’s also making a bunch of crucial national security appointments and such today — we’ll take a stroll through those in more detail on Monday.

For now, that’s Jeff Sessions, United States Attorney General. As is tradition, many people will be pissed and many people will be thrilled. Thus goes politics.