Confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and other nominees will come fast and furious starting this week. Here’s your guide to the details:
WHO: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
NOMINATED FOR: Attorney general
WHEN AND WHERE: 9:30 a.m. Jan. 10 and Jan. 11; Senate Judiciary Committee (Russell Senate Office Building, Room 325)
ARGUMENT FOR: Trump has praised Sessions, a longtime adviser and supporter, as a “world-class legal mind.” First elected in 1996, Sessions previously served as a U.S. attorney and attorney general for Alabama. He has earned praise from Democrats who work with him.
ARGUMENT AGAINST: Accusations of racism have dogged Sessions’s career. He was denied a federal judgeship in 1986 after former colleagues testified he used the n-word and said the Ku Klux Klan was “okay” until he realized Klan members smoked marijuana.
