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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

I do believe it has a corrosive effect on public confidence and the constitutional republic of which we are sworn to uphold.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

That is a pernicious and dangerous shift in the general attitude toward our police and it is totally without foundation.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

Jeff will protect and defend the rights of all people.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

Certainly, the law itself has many powerful provisions that I am glad were passed and that are in law, and that provide protections to women victims of violence.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

He fought for civil rights. He prosecuted members of the Ku Klux Klan and, most importantly, he has fought for the liberty of all Americans.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

The problem as I see it with Roe v. Wade is that it denies the people the right to make laws that they might feel appropriate.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

This is the kind of Attorney General that our Nation needs.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

the job of the Attorney General is to do justice, not necessarily to win a case.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

Protecting the people of this country from crime, and especially from violent crime, is a high calling of the men and women of the Department of Justice.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

I think it is a significant event. We had penetration, apparently, throughout our Government by foreign entities.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

I would not favor a registry of Muslims in the United States. No, I would not.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

It is probably good for the American Republic that Department and Agency officials seek legal advice before they act.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

I do think they are entitled to be evaluated and proper requests, I would assume, would continue to be valid.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

But the Attorney General's duty is to give the best judgment that the Attorney General can give.

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

I think every day that we get away from that is really dangerous.

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Richard Shelby
@richardshelby· Republican · AL· Jan 9, 2017

to exercise some moral and legal oversight to assure that there is no unfairness against those individuals.

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