The confirmation follows a series of divisive hearings during which Democrats attacked Sessions’s record on civil rights, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. Democrat Elizabeth Warren was silenced after recalling historic allegations of racism against Jeff Sessions. The Alabama ...

The rebuke of Warren came after the Massachusetts Democrat read a letter written 30 years ago by Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., opposing the nomination of Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship, CNN reports. Warren ...

The 30-year-old letter criticised Jeff Sessions, President Donald Trump’s nomination for attorney general, according to the BBC. Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, said Ms Warren had broken senate rules by impugning the conduct of another senator. She subsequently read ...