“Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has emerged as perhaps the most polarizing of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet selections, with attention to his nomination for attorney general reaching a fever pitch this week that will only continue to grow.
“Some liberal and civil rights groups have been working furiously to halt his nomination, claiming that as attorney general Sessions will seek to disenfranchise minority voters, strip the LGBT community of protections won during the Obama years, deport Dreamers and fill prisons with low-level drug offenders.”