'''Douglas "Doug" Jones''' is an Alabama attorney and former US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, who is running for the December 12th, 2017 special election for the [[U.S. Senate]] seat vacated by [[Jeff Sessions]] against [[Roy Moore]]. Jones first came to prominence in 1998, when, as US Attorney, he prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing, which had killed four girls. | '''Douglas "Doug" Jones''' is an Alabama attorney and former US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, who is running for the December 12th, 2017 special election for the [[U.S. Senate]] seat vacated by [[Jeff Sessions]] against [[Roy Moore]]. Jones first came to prominence in 1998, when, as US Attorney, he prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing, which had killed four girls. |