President-elect Trump’s intention to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is particularly good news for black communities. A former United States attorney and long-time member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sessions is a highly-qualified and inspired selection that confirms Trump’s commitment to restoring rule of law to the Department of Justice and to restrain lawlessness in our country.

Nevertheless, Sessions’ political opponents have already trotted out old false claims of alleged racism to taint Sessions and damage his reputation with minorities and the black community as a way to build opposition to him in the Senate’s nomination process. Blind charges of “Racism!” have been the Left’s knee-jerk response to Trump’s election and cabinet appointments thus far. In the case of Sessions, they couldn’t be more off-base.