Photos: Sen. Jeff Sessions attorney general confirmation hearing

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, holds copies of letters he would like answered as he questions Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. on Jan. 10, 2017. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., listens at right.

Gold Star father and Donald Trump critic Khizr Khan (C), the father of fallen U.S. Army Captain Humayun Kahn, attends the confirmation hearing for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) be the U.S. Attorney General.

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton (C) looks on as Republican Senator Jeff Sessions testifies at his confirmation hearing to be the Trump administration’s Attorney General in Washington, DC on January 10, 2017.

Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. questions Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, during the committee’s confirmation hearing for Sessions.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa listens at left, as the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. questions Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. during Sessions confirmation hearing before the copmmittee, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., holds a piece of paper as he testifies on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Republican Senator from Alabama, Jeff Sessions, prepares to testify at his confirmation hearing to be the Trump administration’s Attorney General in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, on January 10, 2017.

Protesters at Sen. Jeff Sessions attorney general confirmation hearing in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington DC on January 10, 2017.

Protesters with the activist group ‘CodePink’ rise to protest Sen. Jeff Sessions before he testified at his confirmation hearing to be the Trump administration’s Attorney General on January 10, 2017.

A protester is removed as he disrupts the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as he testifies, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Protestors are removed from the hearing room where Republican Senator Jeff Sessions was speaking at his confirmation hearing to be the Trump administration’s Attorney General in Washington, DC on January 10, 2017.

U.S. Capitol Police remove a demonstrator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.

A protester shouts, “No Trump, No KKK, No facist USA” as she is hauled out of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Sen. Jeff Sessions to be the next U.S. Attorney General.