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...General Catalyst has a record of predicting the next big thing....
...Jeff Sessions lost his campaign to become the Republican Senate nominee in Alabama after Donald Trump took aim at his former attorney-general and campaigned aggressively for his rival in the GOP primary....
...So it was a century ago at Appomattox [Lee’s surrender of the Confederacy]. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama....
..., chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm Workers, Keene, California, June 27 1976; Charles Shaffer, attorney, New York, July 9 1976; Herbert J Miller Jr, attorney, Washington...
...Subsys was sold to Wyoming-based BTcP Pharma, in return for paying a proportion of sales to creditors. Several state attorney-generals objected....
...(iii) Such a property wealth tax would cause a large industry of tax avoidance....
...Until last month Mr Blankenship had trailed the other two candidates, Congressman Evan Jenkins and state attorney-general Patrick Morrisey, in polls....
...Luther Strange would have won the general election for Alabama Senate in a walk. He sits in the Senate now, appointed to the seat vacated when Jeff Sessions became Donald Trump’s attorney-general....
...“The reason I originally endorsed Luther Strange (and his numbers went up mightily), is that I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election. I was right!...
...His win over Luther Strange, a former Alabama attorney-general who was named interim senator in February, marks a significant success for the anti-establishment conservative base that catapulted Mr Trump...
...Republicans could also nominate Luther Strange, who is currently serving as the senator from Alabama but lost to Mr Moore in September’s Republican primary....
...to abandon him for “Big Luther” Strange, the mainstream Republican candidate who boasted the unlikely support of Donald Trump....
...Mr Bannon’s star seemed in the ascendant when Roy Moore, his preferred candidate, trounced Luther Strange, the establishment favourite, in the Republican Senate primaries in Alabama....
...On one side of the Alabama primary is Luther Strange, the sitting senator, whom the Republican establishment convinced Mr Trump to endorse....
...“This is a substantial victory for the safety and security of the American people,” attorney-general Jeff Sessions said....
...(FT, Guardian, Wired) Republican insurgent victory Roy Moore, an evangelical judge, won the Alabama Republican Senate primary on Tuesday night, defeating the state’s former attorney-general Luther Strange...
...But Mr Trump has previously come under criticism from the Republican caucus for his public humiliation of Jeff Sessions, the former Alabama senator who now serves as his attorney-general....
...“In one of my first meetings with then Senator Jeff Sessions last winter, we discussed the need for new leadership at the FBI,” he said, referring to the former Alabama lawmaker who is now the attorney-general...
...“We’re in danger,” Jeff Sessions told a conference of state attorneys-general. “I do not believe that this pop in crime, this increase in crime, is necessarily an aberration, a one-time blip....
...“The office of the attorney-general of the United States is not a political position, and anyone who holds it must have total fidelity to the laws and the constitution of the United States,” he said, insisting...
...On Tuesday Mr Sessions, 70, will highlight what he sees as the emerging public safety dangers in a speech to the National Association of Attorneys General....
...A separate group of 11 Democratic senators led by Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wrote to the attorney-general on Wednesday, urging him to name an independent counsel to investigate the widening scandal...
...whether officials of assorted state-affiliated bodies were covered by the law....
...While he is highly respected by leaders of his industry and the likes of Robert Gates, former CIA director, and ex-secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, there is a chance his confirmation could be derailed...
...in the southern states....
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