WASHINGTON -- Resorting to a tactic he once denounced, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, unsuccessfully sought today to block the nomination of a federal appeals court candidate through the parliamentary technique known as the filibuster.

Sen. Jeff Sessions is questioning what he calls the Justice Department’s reluctance to provide information to congressional investigators. Read more...

What's Your Reaction? Addressing the Department of Justice's decision to try terrorist suspects in civilian court rather than a military tribunal, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), on Wednesday, called the move unprecedented and indefensible.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, will try to block the confirmation vote on Tuesday on Judge David Hamilton's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, Politico reports. Sessions is unlikely to succeed with a filibuster because at least one Republican -- Hamilton's home-state senator, Richard Lugar (Ind.

But despite a lobbying ef­fort to convince his Republi­can colleagues that David Hamilton of Indiana is not worthy of a seat on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap­peals, it appears Jeff Sessions will not get a chance to stop the process.

It’s down to one.

Republicans and Democrats on Friday took a step forward in trying to advance or thwart Stephanie Villafuerte's nomination for Colorado U.S. attorney.

Sen. Jeff Sessions says he intends to filibuster one of President Obama's nominees to the federal appellate bench, saying that he is going to play by what he calls the changed rules governing the nomination process of federal judges .

BOAZ -- The Etowah County Sheriff's Office says searchers have found a body they believe to be a Boaz man who disappeared two weeks ago.

John Cornyn shows commendable principle over partisanship.