Senate Votes to Confirm Jeff Sessions as Attorney General

The Senate has voted to confirm Jeff Sessions as the next United States Attorney General.

The vote was 52-47, with Democratic Senator Joe Manchin crossing party lines to vote yes.

Senate Democrats fought Sessions’ nomination as much as they could, holding late night sessions both Monday and Tuesday to speak out against him.

There was a lot of fierce debate over the nomination, which led to the furor in the Senate chamber last night when Elizabeth Warren was reprimanded for quoting strong words slamming Sessions.

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