A lawsuit has been filed against eight federal agencies seeking records on President Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE (R-Ala.).

Journalist Jason Leopold and Ryan Shapiro, a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday.

They assert that the agencies have failed to comply with their request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

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The agencies mentioned in the lawsuit are the Department of Justice, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Security Agency.

Leopold and Shapiro say the records they’ve requested will help shed light on Sessions’s history as a state and federal attorney general and as a lawmaker.

Opponents have accused Sessions of racism, citing testimony given in 1986 when he was rejected for a seat on a federal district court in the Southern District of Alabama.

During his confirmation hearings earlier this month, Sessions addressed the charges that he’s made racially insensitive remarks about African-Americans and the NAACP head on. He said he does not harbor the racial sentiments he has been accused of.

Senate Democrats delayed the expected vote on Sessions’s confirmation Tuesday, saying they need more time to review his record.

No Republicans have come out against Sessions’s nomination, and he is expected to win confirmation in the Senate. Sen. Joe Manchin Joseph (Joe) ManchinBiden promises Democratic senators help in battleground states Senate leaders quash talk of rank-and-file COVID-19 deal OVERNIGHT ENERGY: House Democrats tee up vote on climate-focused energy bill next week | EPA reappoints controversial leader to air quality advisory committee | Coronavirus creates delay in Pentagon research for alternative to 'forever chemicals' MORE (W.Va.) is the only Democrat publicly supporting the nomination so far.

Leopold and Shapiro have also sued the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for records pertaining to Russia’s interference in the presidential election.