Dems seek update from Jeff Sessions on efforts to protect elections from foreign interference

Published December 1, 2017 8:36pm ET



Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to tell them how the Department of Justice is working to stop interference by foreign governments in future elections.

Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee last month that he had not yet ordered a review of laws that need to be updated to protect elections from foreign interference. “We are not anywhere near where I would like us to be yet,” he said.

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