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| Jeff Sessions (L) is new AG |
The US Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nomination for attorney general, Alabama Senator, Jeff Sessions.
The confirmation follows a vote of 52 to 47 after series of divisive hearings during which Democrats attacked Mr Sessions’s record on civil rights.
Democrat Elizabeth Warren was silenced after recalling historic allegations of racism against Mr Sessions.
The Alabama senator’s nomination was among Mr Trump’s most controversial decisions.
The BBC reported that voting ulargely followed party lines, with just one Democratic senator – Joe Manchin of West Virginia – voting for Mr Sessions.
Mr Sessions’s will now take charge of the justice department and its 113,000 employees, including 93 US attorneys.
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