Attorney General Jeff Sessions has promised to recuse himself from any Justice Department investigations into the Trump presidential campaign. His blanket recusal likely will not satisfy his most ardent opponents, who wanted to see the Alabama Republican resign after it was revealed Sessions had falsely stated in his confirmation hearing he did not meet with the Russian ambassador during the campaign. And the move may disappoint supporters, who rightly noted that as a U.S. senator, Sessions would have had legitimate reasons to meet with foreign ambassadors.

But the decision to recuse himself was the right one—if for no other reason than to remove the appearance of conflict. But the questions about Trump connections to the Russian government will continue to nag. Just a couple hours after Sessions’s Thursday afternoon press conference, the New York Times reported that Jared Kushner and Mike Flynn had a meeting with the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, in December at Trump Tower. And USA Today reports that two national-security aides to the Trump campaign met with Kislyak in Cleveland in July during the Republican National Convention.