--- title: Jeff Sessions Senate Vote: Watch Live description: The Senate deliberations over Jeff Sessions, Trump's nominee for Attorney General, proved to be extremely heated. 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US Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama and nominee for US Attorney General, attends a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 2, 2017. SAUL LOEB—AFP/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Feb 8, 2017 3:39 PM UTC The Senate deliberations over [Jeff Sessions](http://time.com/4656534/jeff-sessions-senate-committee-approval/), Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, proved to be extremely heated. Most notably, senators ruled 43-50 that [Elizabeth Warren](http://time.com/4663578/elizabeth-warren-jeff-sessions-coretta-scott-king-senate/) had violated the rules by “impugning” a fellow senator’s motives while reading a letter written by [Coretta Scott King](http://time.com/4663497/coretta-scott-king-letter-warren-senate-sessions/) that objected to Sessions’s 1986 nomination for federal judge over his civil rights record. Sessions is expected to cruise to a relatively easy victory, coming one day after the Senate confirmed [Betsy DeVos](http://time.com/4662853/betsy-devos-confirmation-democrats/) as education secretary, requiring a tiebreaker vote from Vice President Pence after two Republicans voted against DeVos. Scheduling DeVos’s vote before Sessions’ meant that Sessions, still a senator, was able to cast a critical vote for the new education secretary. The vote is scheduled to begin at 6:50 p.m. EST. 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