Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, plans to meet with Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Tuesday morning to discuss Sessions’ nomination to serve as attorney general, Grassley’s office said Monday.
Grassley chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will hold hearings on Sessions’ nomination early next year.
After President-elect Trump picked Sessions to be the top law enforcer in the land, Republicans quickly lined up in support of him, along with conservative Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, setting up a smooth path to his Senate confirmation.
But Democrats have vowed to dig into Sessions’ past, including the racist allegations that cost him a Senate confirmation for a federal judgeship in the 1980s, his far-right positions on immigration and his support for waterboarding suspected terrorists.
After his failed nomination, he won a Senate campaign and was seated alongside the very Democratic senators who helped sink his judgeship, including then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.
