Jeff Sessions
Bio | Jeff Sessions previously served as a US Senator for Alabama, but vacated his seat when he was appointed as Attorney General of the United States. |
Status and Position | Former Attorney General and Senator of Alabama |
Political Party and Jurisdiction | Republican, Alabama |
Elections | Election Jurisdiction | Started Campaign | Campaign Status | Poll Rankings (of the vote) |
| 2020 Senate Election Alabama 1 | Alabama 1 | Yes | Dropped Out | 45.0% |
Campaign Financing | Sessions has received both campaign financing from both PACS, Fundraising and Personal funding |
Voting Rights | unknown at this time, past record shows he did not support voting rights act |
Opinions on Issues
Issues | Stance | Summary |
| Universal Healthcare | Against | Sessions has made a hard stance against universal healthcare and has been on record saying "not defend the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act mandate for individuals to maintain essential health insurance coverage" Sessions expressed hardline policies towards universal healthcare. Has a(n) against stance on Universal Health |
| Socialized Healthcare | Against | sessions remained against universal and socialized health. |
| Private Healthcare | Unknown | Sessions has not gone on record about private healthcare. |
| LGBT Rights | Against | Session is strongly against LGBT rights Voted against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, and has publicly denounced LGBT practices and opposed including LGBT people in federal hate crime laws. |
| Taxes | For | Supports taxes. Signed the tax protection pledge. supports Trump's tax plan that increased income inequality by 1% |
| Flat Tax Rate | For | sessions is for flat rate taxation versus progressive tax Signed the tax protection pledge. supports Trump's tax plan that increased income inequality by 1% |
| Abortion | Against | Sessions has a pro-life voting record Sessions has written multiple letters to his fellow congressional leaders urging them to vote for pro-life policies. |
| Gun Control | For | Sessions is a pro- Second Amendment. Sessions has a A+ rating by the NRA for his Pro-Second Amendment voting record |
| Assisted Suicide | Unknown | Sessions has not made any specific statements on this. Sessions has a A+ rating by the NRA for his Pro-Second Amendment voting record |
| Government Interference | Against | Given his views on gun control, voter rights and healthcare. He is against interference from the government. |
| Planned Parenthood | Against | Sessions is pro-life politician. He has signed a letter for the DOJ to investigate Planned Parenthood and has voted and co- supported bills to defund Planned Parenthood. |
| Welfare | Unknown | Sessions has not made a stand on welfare Sessions has not made a stance on this issue. |
| Welfare | Against | Voted no on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. |
| Death Penalty | For | Sessions have suggested in certain drug related statues the death penalty should be used. Along with using certain drug statues to get a death penalty, Sessions also believes in the death penalty for killing Law Enforcement Agencies. |
| Mandatory Prison Sentence | for | has signed a memorandum outlining a new sentencing and charging policy for all federal prosecutors that are responsible for bringing federal charges in federal crimes. He has ordered "charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense.” |
| Military Spending | For | Pro- Military spending; ok with capping defence budget. |
| War on Terrorism | For | Sessions has shown support for Trump's Anti-Terrorism procedures. |
| Foreign Policy International Interaction | For | Sessions has a mixed voting record when it comes to foreign policy, currently is Pro Foreign Policy Sessions has a mixed voting record when it comes to foreign policy but his most recent record shows he is for foreign policy, even going as far as staging an anti terrorism simulation in France for foreign leadership to observe |
| United Nations power | Unknown | Sessions Has not taken a Stance on this. |
| Nationalism | Unknown | Has not explicitly said if he is Pro Nationalism or not, with how he presents himself in speeches and public it would suggest that he is a pro- nationalist. |
| Free Markets | For | Sessions has a pro free market voting history Sessions is Pro- Free markert. As of 2012 he has a 75%USAE indicating he is pro Trade. |
| Brexit | Unknown | Sessions has yet to take a stance on Brexit |
| Affirmative Action | Unknown | Sessions has made no stance on issue. |
| Government Spending | For | Sessions as a pro-military politician supports government spending as long as it is on military . He has been know as a "deficient budget hawk" who prefers lower spending on non military programs. |
| Charter Schools | For | Sessions has a voting record that would indicate that is his against public education and has a 20% rating from NEA indicating anti public education voting history |
| Common Core | Against | He is not in favor of Common Core. Sessions has written a letter along with his fellow constituents to the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the U.S. Department of Education’s funding of the Common Core to asking for them to defund it on the grounds that the Department of Educations "may not be involved in setting specific content standards or determining the content of state assessments". |
| Clean Energy | Against | Sessions has a mixed voting background on Clean Energy, but mostly has shown he is against it. He largely believes that the renewable energy sector of the economy should be dictated by the free market. |
| Religious Freedom | For | Sessions supports religious freedom, as he has mentioned it in multiple speeches He has used religious freedom as justification to act against pro-LGBT legislation. |
| Separation of Church and State | Against | Sessions has not had any voting record, but has publically made remarks about his beliefs around Church and state and has shown by his lack of voting on issues that go against "god" that he is very much against separation of church and state |
| Slavery Reparations | Unknown | Sessions has made no clear stance on issue |
| Border Control | For | Sessions backs stricter borders; has 100% rating by USBC indicating a sealed board stance Sessions has a strict sealed border stance, has a voting record to show that he is against open borders or immigration. |
| Passenger Profiling | Unknown | Sessions has not made a public stance on this. |
| DACA | Against | As AG Sessions announced that the DOJ was rescinding the DACA Program, due to "the policy is vulnerable to the same legal and constitutional challenges that the courts recognized with respect to the DAPA program, which was enjoined on a nationwide basis in a decision affirmed by the Fifth Circuit. The Fifth Circuit specifically concluded that DACA had not been implemented in a fashion that allowed sufficient discretion, and that DAPA was “foreclosed by Congress’s careful plan. |
| Sanctuary Cities | Against | Sessions has mentioned in speeches that he is against Sanctuary Cities, calling the officials who support them "extremist" that are promoting open borders. |
| Legalizing Marijuana | Against | Sessions currently has a "F" rating by NORML indicating a "hard on drugs" Stance. |