Byron York: How Jeff Sessions would change the Justice Department

On Tuesday morning attorney general-designate Jeff Sessions will become the first Trump nominee to undergo a Senate confirmation hearing. It could be rough.

Democrats have spent weeks noting that Sessions — their colleague in the Senate for the last 20 years — was denied a federal judgeship in 1986 over charges he was “racially insensitive.” The outside groups and journalists that support Democrats have been less tactful; just Google “Sessions” and “racist.”