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Jeff Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General

KQED News Staff

Feb 9, 2017 at

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Longtime Alabama senator and lawyer Jeff Sessions has been confirmed by the Senate as U.S. attorney general. The vote was 52 to 49. California Sen. Kamala Harris explained she was voting against his nomination because of Sessions' civil rights record, including what she called the gutting of the Voting Rights Act.

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