Both bodies will have to write budgets and likely agree to a government-funding plan with President Obama. Senator Jeff Sessions should have the chance to lead that effort.

Sessions has long been a critic of legalizing undocumented immigrants, and has pushed to curtail immigration to the United States, in part by constructing a wall along the southern U.S. border.

Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis and other black lawmakers say Sen. Jeff Sessions is unfit to be attorney general Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon who has been at the forefront of civil ...