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Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has announced the six candidates who are still in the running to replace U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions' seat. •U.S. Congressman, Robert Aderholt. •ADECA Director, Jim Byard. •Former State Representative, Perry Hooper Jr. •Senate President Pro Tem, Del Marsh. •Representative Connie Rowe. •Attorney General, Luther Strange. Governor Bentley interviewed 20 candidates for the potential vacancy, as Sessions has been tapped by President Donald Trump to become the next U.S. Attorney General. ... Senator Sessions still has to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate before he becomes Attorney General, which is to be expected. He was approved by...

It's only the second week of 2017, but it's already been a banner year for preening liberals on cable TV who are hell-bent on self-immolation in the name of proving everyone else's moral inferiority. To use young people's slang these days, you're "lit," media progressives. But not in a good way. On Tuesday, just before the confirmation hearing for Attorney General nominee and Alabama GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions kicked off, an MTV News reporter demonstrated his high and mighty commitment to racial tolerance ... by mocking Sen. Sessions' half-Asian granddaughter. Sessions' daughter, Ruth, is married to Asian-American John Walk. They...

"There is a reason why a solution such as that offered by Donald Trump to America’s immigration problems has been so elusive; it involved the use of common sense. While most politicians are not blessed with an abundance of that commodity, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is an exception to the rule. He helped to impart that quality into the Trump plan, which he whole-heartedly endorses. Sessions describes it as “A mainstream plan to do what politicians have been promising to do for thirty years and haven’t done.” He lists some of the key points such as ending the job magnet...

CNSNews.com) - Granting "executive amnesty" to millions of people who came to the U.S. illegally "needs to be stopped," Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) told Fox News's Megyn Kelly Thursday night. "Congress simply has to bar the expenditure of any money to carry out such a scheme because it would be a very expensive scheme," Sessions said."How do you shut down funding for a deferred prosecution?" Kelly asked. "Well, it's real easy," Sessions replied. He noted that in granting deferred deportation for hundreds of thousands of young "dreamers," the Obama administration "gave those individuals ID cards with the words 'work authorization'...

The central sales pitch for the Gang of Eight’s immigration legislation has been the claim of strong border security triggers that are supposed to be the “toughest border immigration enforcement measures in U.S. history.” But a close examination of the legislation reveals that the promised enforcement is nowhere to be found. The triggers aren’t triggers at all—and in fact would actually weaken requirements previously enacted by Congress—while granting extraordinary new discretion to the Department of Homeland Security to waive security protocols, removal proceedings, and denials of entry. The day the bill passes, there will be an effective amnesty for the...

Majority Leader Reid, with plenty of Republican complicity, wants unanimous consent to dispense with 6 amendments to the immigration bill in 45 minutes this afternoon. The hope is that the cloture vote to end debate at 5 will then be successful. Senator Sessions is strongly objecting because that would allow too little time to understand fully each amendment and to debate their merits. The fast-track this legislation has been on has denied an opportunity to consider it fully and modify it thoughtfully. It by-passed the committee process. In committee last year, 60 amendments to the McCain-Kennedy bill were voted on....

Facts? Who Needs ‘Em? On the Washington Post op-ed page, facts are irrelevant by Alex Koppelman in New York, New York USA Most people probably know that the op-ed pages aren’t exactly untarnished beacons of truth-telling. That’s a given. Still, you’d hope that editors would ask their op-ed writers to at least try not to lie. At the Washington Post’s op-ed section Monday, that was apparently too much to ask. Key to the page were dueling pieces debating a proposed repeal of the estate tax. This kind of setup, altogether similar to “he-said, she-said” news reporting, isn’t uncommon. There’s little...