Former Alabama senator and Attorney General Jeff Sessions took to Twitter to attack his Democratic successor Doug Jones for voting to remove Confederate officers' names from U.S. military bases.
On Saturday, Jones — a former federal prosecutor who convicted Klansmen of murder — hit back, reminding Sessions that the vote was bipartisan, and suggesting he get on the "right side of history" when it comes to the Confederacy.
Jones, who won in an upset in the 2017 special election, is considered one of the most vulnerable senators standing for re-election in 2020. Sessions, who left the Senate to serve as Trump's first attorney general before being fired amid tensions over the Russia investigation, is now running to reclaim his old seat — although polling shows he is trailing former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville in the Republican primary.
