--- title: Jeff Sessions: Cory Booker to Testify Against Trump AG Pick description: New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker said he will testify this week against Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions—a move his office has said is unprecedented canonical: https://time.com/4629968/cory-booker-jeff-sessions-confirmation/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-10T13:00:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:45.587Z article:section: Politics og:title: Cory Booker Will Take an Unprecedented Stand Against Jeff Sessions og:description: "He has a posture and a positioning that I think represent a real danger" og:url: https://time.com/4629968/cory-booker-jeff-sessions-confirmation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd384404ad879d3be/6988b4e90a4a223d689cc804/cory-booker-jeff-sessions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Senate Subcommittee Hearing To Assess The Security Of Critical Transportation Infrastructure og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cory Booker Will Take an Unprecedented Stand Against Jeff Sessions twitter:description: "He has a posture and a positioning that I think represent a real danger" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd384404ad879d3be/6988b4e90a4a223d689cc804/cory-booker-jeff-sessions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cory Booker Will Take an Unprecedented Stand Against Jeff Sessions > Sponsored content. 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Jeff Sessions stressed his reputation in the Senate when he testified before a key committee Tuesday that could decide whether he becomes Donald Trump’s attorney general_  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jan 10, 2017 1:00 PM UTC  Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, questions a witness during a Senate Committee on Commerce Science & Transportation hearing in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7, 2016. Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, questions a witness during a Senate Committee on Commerce Science & Transportation hearing in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7, 2016.T.J. Kirkpatrick—Bloomberg/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jan 10, 2017 1:00 PM UTC New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker said he will testify this week against [Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions](http://time.com/4623936/jeff-sessions-attorney-general-hearings-senate/?xid=homepage)—a move his office has said is unprecedented in Senate history. “I’m breaking a pretty long Senate tradition by actually being a sitting Senator testifying tomorrow against another sitting Senator,” Booker said Monday in an [interview with MSNBC](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/sen-cory-booker-rep-john-lewis-testify-against-jeff-sessions-n705011). “Please understand, I think these are extraordinary times, and they call for extraordinary measures.” Sessions’ [confirmation hearings](http://time.com/4629821/donald-trump-cabinet-picks-senate-confirmation/) for the role of attorney general begin Tuesday. Booker told MSNBC that he plans to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday or Wednesday. “We’ve seen consistently Jeff Sessions—that’s Senator Jeff Sessions—voting against everything from the Matthew Shepard Act, voting against or speaking out against key ideals around the Voting Rights Act, taking measures to try to block criminal justice reform,” Booker said on MSNBC. “He has a posture and a positioning that I think represent a real danger to our country.” Others have also [raised concerns](http://time.com/4629246/khizr-khan-senate-judiciary-committee-jeff-sessions/) about Sessions’ stance on key issues, including voting rights, freedom of speech and religious freedom. Booker’s office said the Senate historian has not been able to find a prior instance of a sitting senator testifying against another siting senator nominated for a White House Cabinet position, [NBC News reported](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/sen-cory-booker-rep-john-lewis-testify-against-jeff-sessions-n705011). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4629968/cory-booker-jeff-sessions-confirmation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4629968/cory-booker-jeff-sessions-confirmation/"},"headline":"Cory Booker Will Take an Unprecedented Stand Against Jeff Sessions","datePublished":"2017-01-10T13:00:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:54:45.587Z","description":"\"He has a posture and a positioning that I think represent a real danger to our country\"","url":"https://time.com/4629968/cory-booker-jeff-sessions-confirmation/","keywords":["Congress","New Jersey","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd384404ad879d3be/6988b4e90a4a223d689cc804/cory-booker-jeff-sessions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd384404ad879d3be/6988b4e90a4a223d689cc804/cory-booker-jeff-sessions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Senate Subcommittee Hearing To Assess The Security Of Critical Transportation Infrastructure","caption":"Senate Subcommittee Hearing To Assess The Security Of Critical Transportation Infrastructure","creditText":"T.J. 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