Poor Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

Poor Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. Not only does he have a middle name that makes anyone who utters it sound like he’s trying to talk under water with a mouth full of marbles, now Democrats are seizing on that name as proof that the Alabama senator is a racist.

Sessions, whom President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to be attorney general, was purportedly named after Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard. But those names are common in the South, and were even more so in 1946, when Sessions was born.