Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions has significant influence on President Trump's administration, having placed former staffers and associates in key positions. Sessions, who shares Trump's hard-line view on immigration enforcement, was the first senator to endorse Trump's candidacy.
On Tuesday, Sessions will testify before a Senate Intelligence Committee about his actions related to the ongoing investigation into whether Russia colluded with Trump campaign . Ahead of that hearing, which we'll be covering live here , take a look at where Sessions' former staffers and close associates have landed, including at some of the most senior levels of the White House.
Dearborn is Trump’s White House deputy chief of staff, running outreach to Congress He was also the executive director of Trump’s transition team Dearborn was Sessions’ former chief of staff
Rick Dearborn
Miller was communications director in Sessions’ Senate office Sessions serves as U.S. attorney general under Trump Miller is a senior advisor to Trump. He is an architect of Trump's strict immigration orders and wrote Trump's inaugural address
Stephen Miller
Benczkowski is partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a major Washington law firm, and helped manage Trump’s Justice Department transition Benczkowski was a Republican staff direc - tor for the Senate Judi - ciary Committe and worked closely with Sessions , who was once the top Republican on the panel
Brian Benczkowski
Kirchner is a senior advisor at U.S. Customs and Border Protection under Trump Kirchner worked closely with Sessions when she was president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington think tank that pushes for lower immigration levels
Julie Kirchner
Hamilton is Trump’s senior advisor to the secretary of Homeland Security, currently implementing immigration orders Hamilton was a former Sessions staffer
Gene Hamilton
Nuebel-Kovarik is a senior advisor at Citizenship and Immigration Services under Trump Nuebel-Kovarik was a Senate Judiciary Committee staffer, working closely with Sessions’ staff
Kathy Nuebel-Kovarik
Trump appointed Shah as a senior policy official at Homeland Security Shah was a senior staffer on the House Judiciary Committee and worked closely with Sessions’ staff
Dimple Shah
Miller is a senior advisor to Trump. He is an architect of Trump's strict immigration orders and wrote Trump's inaugural address Miller was communica - tions director in Sessions’ Senate office
Sessions serves as U.S. attorney general under Trump
Stephen Miller
Dearborn is Trump’s White House deputy chief of staff, running outreach to Congress He was also the executive director of Trump’s transition team Dearborn was Sessions’ former chief of staff
Rick Dearborn
Brian Benczkowski
Benczkowski is partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a major Washington law firm, and helped manage Trump’s Justice Department transition Benczkowski was a Republican staff director for the Senate Judiciary Committe and worked closely with Sessions , who was once the top Republican on the panel
Kathy Nuebel-Kovarik
Nuebel-Kovarik is a senior advisor at Citizenship and Immigration Services under Trump Nuebel-Kovarik was a Senate Judiciary Committee staffer, working closely with Sessions’ staff
Hamilton was a former Sessions staffer
Hamilton is Trump’s senior advisor to the secretary of Homeland Security, currently implementing immigration orders
Gene Hamilton
Julie Kirchner
Kirchner worked closely with Sessions when she was president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington think tank that pushes for lower immigration levels
Kirchner is a senior ad - visor at U.S. Customs and Border Protection under Trump
Dimple Shah
Shah was a senior staffer on the House Judiciary Committee and worked closely with Sessions’ staff
Trump appointed Shah as a senior policy official at Homeland Security
Sources: Times reporting
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UPDATES:
June 12, 2016, 12:55 p.m.: This article was updated to include details of Sessions testifying on June 13, 2017 before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
This article was originally published on March 2, 2017.
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