Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan, assailed the nominees for failing to be honest with the committee. During a morning-long hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrats painted Mr. “I have no confidence that Senator Sessions will do that,” Ms. Feinstein said. Democrats are already calling it “the Monday night massacre” after Mr. Trump fired Ms. Yates, the acting attorney general, for refusing to defend his immigration order in court. At Mr. Sessions’s nomination hearing this month, Democrats challenged him repeatedly about whether he would have the independence to stand up to Mr. Trump if the president veered into legally questionable terrain.

Source: New York Times January 31, 2017 15:53 UTC