Doug Jones says it’s tough for Jeff Sessions to be on ‘right side of history’

Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions tussled on Twitter over a congressional proposal to strip Confederate leaders’ names from military assets, with the Democratic senator defending his vote and the man vying to unseat him arguing such a move “betrays the character and decency of every soldier who fought for the South.”

Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions tussled on Twitter over a congressional proposal to strip Confederate leaders’ names from military assets, with the Democratic senator defending his vote and the man vying to unseat him arguing such a move “betrays the character and decency of every soldier who fought for the South.”