Sen. Lindsey Graham argued Tuesday that Democratic attacks against Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to be the next attorney general are really just attacks against conservatism, because Democrats don’t think any Republican is qualified to lead the Department of Justice.

“The bottom line is that most of things said about Jeff Sessions and the way he acted as a senator could be said about almost all of us on this side who consider themselves conservative,” Graham, R-S.C., said on the Senate floor.