Former Attorney General Sessions Announces Run for US Senate Seat

Attorney General Jeff Sessions at a press conference in Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 12, 2017. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Nov. 7 that he is seeking the 2020 Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat for Alabama.

Sessions, 72, served as a senator from Alabama for two decades—from 1997 to 2017—before he joined the Trump administration as attorney general in February 2017.