Jeff Sessions Biography| Who Is Jeff Sessions?

Jeff Sessions “Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III” is an American Republican politician and barrister who was appointed as the 84th United States Attorney General from 2017 to 2018. He is known as a Republican, Sessions previously served as the United States Senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017, resigning the position in order to serve in the Trump administration.

Jeff Sessions Age| How Old Is Jeff Sessions?

He was born on December 24th, 1946 in Selma, Alabama. He is 71 years old in 2018.

Jeff Sessions Height| How Tall Is Jeff Sessions?

Jeff’s height is believed to be 1.65 meters.

Jeff Sessions Family

The Attorney General is the son of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions Jr. and Abbie Powe. He was the third person named Jefferson in his family which accounts to him being called Jefferson III.

His father was a businessman who owned a store in Hybart, Alabama and dealt in farm machines. Their family is of English ancestry with a mixture of some Scots-Irish in their lineage.

Jeff Sessions Wife

Jeff is not gay He is married to Mary Blackshear Sessions

Jeff Sessions children

The Pair couple has three children together Mary Abigail Reinhardt, Ruth Sessions Walk and Sam Sessions. Sam took after his father and built a career in Law.

He attended the University of Alabama School of Law and graduated in 2010 with a degree in Law and is currently practicing in Birmingham.

He is also said to have a B.A. in political science from Auburn University. Who knows? he might one day be a high profile politician like his father.

Jeff Sessions Education

He got enrolled at The Wilcox County High School in Camden and later studied at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, graduating in 1969 with a B.A degree.

He then joined the University of Alabama School of Law where he earned a Juris Doctor degree (J.D. or JD), also known as the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1973.

In his early days, he was in the Young Republicans and later became president of his school’s student body.

Jeff Sessions career

Lega and Political Career:

Jeff Sessions started off his career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. He was then nominated by President Ronald Reagan as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama in 1981 and served in the post for 12 years.

Early on, he was blamed for selective prosecution as he unsuccessfully prosecuted three African-American community organizers for voter fraud, while not prosecuting two Ku Klux Klan members charged for the murder of a black man.

He was nominated In 1986, as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the same region, but he became the second nominee in 48 years to be rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee. While he apologized for a comment in which he appeared to condone the KKK, four Department of Justice lawyers who had worked with him testified that he often made racially offensive remarks.

He defeated Democrat Jimmy Evans by bagging 57% vote share and was elected Attorney General of Alabama in November 1994.

He was then hired as a private lawyer to challenge a 1993 court decision that sought to equalize funding for poor community schools, mostly attended by black students, and wealthier ones, but the move was declared unconstitutional.

He won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in 1996 and later, during the general election in November, defeated Democrat Roger Bedford. Also that year, he cited “violation of state law” after the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Alliance sued Alabama for attempting to deny funding to student organizations supporting homosexuality, but the law was ultimately ruled unconstitutional.

He defeated Democratic State Auditor Susan Parker to get reelected to the senate in 2002, he, a feat he repeated in the 2008 elections as well by defeating Democratic State Senator Vivian Davis Figures.

He was uncontested in the Republican preliminary in 2014 and won another term by defeating write-in Democratic candidate Victor Sanchez Williams in the general elections.

In February 2016, he officially endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential run, becoming the first senator to do so, and was on the shortlist to become Trump’s running mate, but lost to Mike Pence.

Jefferson Policies Taken as Attorney General

Jeff oversaw the firing of 46 Obama-era US Attorneys who were abruptly asked to resign by Trump on March 10th of, 2017. He as well disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science and ended review of the forensic accuracy, following which he was accused of taking ‘science’ out of Forensic Science.

He stood firm on as an opponent of illegal immigration and warned on March 27, 2017, that cities failing to comply with federal immigration policy would lose federal funding.

In June 2018, amidst uproar against Trump government’s decision to separate children from detained families at the border, he was criticized by religious heads and scholars for citing out-of-context Biblical quote to defend the policy.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions

He overturned his predecessor Eric Holder’s memo to curb mass incarceration by avoiding mandatory sentencing and ordered that federal prosecutors seek the maximum criminal charges possible in May 2017, He opposed the bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act bill, and the following month, issued a memo urging prosecutors to seek capital punishment against major drug dealers in February 2018.

He urged congressional leaders to repeal the Rohrabacher–Farr amendment to allow the Justice Department to prosecute providers of medical marijuana in May 2017, and later, He rescinded the Cole Memorandum to allow federal prosecutors bring charges against state legalized the use of marijuana use in January 2018.

A climate change skeptic, he has voted in favor of legislation that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases. He as well voted to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Jeff Sessions Immigration

Jeff is a strong critique of illegal immigration, he adopted a hard-line on so-called sanctuary cities. He even told reporters that cities failing to comply with federal immigration laws would not be able to access federal funding.

On the same note, Trump issued an executive order canceling the funding from the cities. However, the order was successfully challenged by San Francisco and forbidden from enforcement by a federal judge.

Jeff Sessions Net Worth

Jeff has an estimated net worth of $7.5 million as of 2018.

Jeff Sessions In Hillary Clinton Matters

A newly revealed letter shows that former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions really did order a review into the investigations into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the Uranium One sale, and the FBI’s inquiry into Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state, says a watchdog group.

“In consultation with the Deputy Attorney General, I have requested that you review the matters referenced in the enclosed November 13, 2017, letter from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte and make recommendations to me or the Deputy Attorney General, as appropriate,” Sessions wrote to U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah John Huber in a letter obtained by American Oversight, a non-profit that describes itself as a non-partisan watchdog. The group said that Sessions “caved to Trump’s authoritarian demands,” to investigate Clinton.

Trump lambasted Clinton as if she was a criminal during the 2016 presidential election. American Oversight said that Matthew Whitaker, who later followed Sessions as Acting Attorney General, delivered it as an email attachment.

American Oversight obtained the document as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. According to the group, government lawyers tried in November 2018 to get the complaint dismissed by saying there was no record of written directives. This turned out to have been false.