GOP cheers Sessions pick, Dems send warnings

Published November 18, 2016 3:40pm ET



Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee already appear split on whether Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to attorney general, which is expected to win confirmaton, will sail through without any controversy or hit a few bumps along the way.

Within an hour of President-elect Trump’s decision to tap the Alabama Republican to head the Justice Department, a number of GOP senators, including Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, applauded the move.

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