The Curious Appointment of Senator Luther Strange
The successor to Attorney General Jeff Sessions won an appointment from the Alabama governor his office might have been investigating.
Alabama’s new U.S. senator, Luther Strange, already has the name to match these unusual political times. But the circumstances that led to his appointment as the successor to Jeff Sessions may be equally curious.
Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday Strange to take Sessions’s place in the Senate until a special election is held next year. Normally, the selection of a state’s attorney general to temporarily assume a Senate seat would not generate much controversy. It’s a common stepping stone in politics—just ask Sessions, who served in the same office in Alabama before he first won his Senate seat in 1996.
