Trump nominee Jeff Sessions haunted by racist comments

Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be US attorney general, is an arch-conservative southerner haunted by racially-charged comments he made decades ago. Now a 69-year-old senator from Alabama, Sessions was once denied a judgeship amid concerns over his past comments about blacks, and over remarks that appeared sympathetic to the Ku Klux Klan. The allegations came out in 1986 during witness testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee as Sessions sought approval to be a federal