Conservatives have concerns about Sessions as Trump's attorney general

By Julia Edwards Ainsley and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named his earliest and staunchest supporter in the Senate, conservative Republican Jeff Sessions, to become the next U.S. attorney general, triggering an outcry from civil rights groups as well as some conservatives outside Congress who are uneasy about Sessions' positions. If approved for the job by a simple majority in the Republican-dominated Senate, Sessions, 69, would lead the Justic