Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, said on Twitter: "Hey Jeff Sessions, this island in the Pacific has been the 50th state for going on 58 years".
Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin reacted to Sessions' remarks Thursday.
Sessions told the Mark Levin Show he's confident the president will prevail with his administration's appeal of Watson's travel ban ruling.
The attorney general of Hawaii's office (@Atghlgov) tweeted an image of the act admitting Hawaii into the Union in 1959.
Sessions was one of 94 senators who voted to confirm Watson in 2013.
A Sessions spokesman responded to the New York Times with an email saying, "Hawaii is, in fact, an island in the Pacific - a handsome one where the attorney general's granddaughter was born".
Part of THAAD elements deployed in South Korea
A police official in the nearby town of Seongju said police had withdrawn from the area and were not aware of any injuries. There had been fears North Korea would mark the anniversary with its sixth nuclear test or a long-range missile launch.
Sessions said he wasn't criticizing the state; he just doesn't think a single judge should be able to block the president, according to KDVR. Hawaiian AG Doug Chin issued a statement, expressing his disappointment that Sessions does not recognise the equal role the federal courts play alongside the President and Congress. Still, Mr. Sessions reiterated that line of argument in the radio interview, saying he believed that the judge's reasoning was improper and would be overturned.
While other states certainly felt the impacts of World War II, Hawaii took a physical pounding with the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy".
He said: "President Trump previously called a federal judge in California a so-called judge". An American in Hawaii is as American as one from Alabama.
Most Americans would call it an essential part of USA history. Many Hawaiians accuse the US and its white settlers of colonizing and exploiting the region. Or when one judge sitting in Texas blocked Obama's order requiring companies that wanted big federal contracts to disclose labor law violations.
Hawaiians are proud of their multi-ethnic state and many have been in the forefront of civil rights legislation. "He should have recused himself, not only for that, for other things". Before Roe v. Wade, Hawaii in March 1970 became the first state to legalize abortion at the request of the woman.
"Amazed @USAGSessions doesn't know Hawaii is a State, not just an "#IslandinthePacific".
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