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<\/a>Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Illustration by Greg Groesch\/The Washington Times<\/p><\/div>\n
By Ken Blackwell<\/span><\/p>\n ANALYSIS\/OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dishonest media attacks against President-Elect Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, won\u2019t derail his confirmation. But it\u2019s important to discuss where they come from because not everyone who realizes their origin is comfortable with that conversation.<\/p>\n The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times spent more than a month working on stories that were exclusively about Jeff Sessions and race, to run before Mr. Sessions\u2019 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Their aim was clear: to try to define Mr. Sessions as a caricature, stepping straight out of the segregated south and into the Department of Justice, ignoring his 20-year career as a United States senator.<\/p>\n There\u2019s only one reason why large news organizations invest so much time, energy and money \u2014 they sent reporters to Alabama, each of whom spent a week there \u2014 to do these biased stories, and it\u2019s time someone said what it is. The reason is because someone, somewhere, deep down doesn\u2019t believe a white man from Alabama should be the attorney general of the United States.<\/p>\n It\u2019s crucial for the attorney general to have an effective working relationship with national, state and local law enforcement. It\u2019s also important for the senators who will be judging Mr. Sessions to know that Americans\u2019 respect for law enforcement is at a 50-year high. This contrasts deeply with the low approval ratings the public consistently registers for Congress.<\/p>\n Additionally, that full picture would include Mr. Sessions\u2019 20-year career in the U.S. Senate, where he consistently worked with leading Democrats to pass meaningful bills, including landmark legislation that was signed into law by presidents of both political parties.<\/p>\n In 2003 Jeff Sessions and Ted Kennedy \u2014 yes, that Ted Kennedy \u2014 led the drive to pass the Prison Rape Elimination Act. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n In 2010 Jeff Sessions and Dick Durbin \u2014 yes, the same Dick Durbin who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee and will be asking questions of Mr. Sessions \u2014 led the drive to pass the Crack Cocaine Fair Sentencing Act. Mr. Sessions actually first introduced that bill in 2001 and never gave up on it over nine years.<\/p>\n He held strategy meetings in his office with organizations such as the NAACP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR). The bill was signed into law by President Obama and afterward the LCCR issued a news release praising Mr. Sessions and his colleagues on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n In 2011 conservative Sen. Jeff Sessions and liberal Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut led the drive to pass the Finding Fugitive Sex Offender Act. It also was signed into law by President Obama.<\/p>\n None of these achievements, nor the aforementioned endorsements, were found in either of these stories, each of which were thousands of words long. Jeff Sessions will be the next attorney general despite the national media\u2019s anti-white, anti-southern racism, and the country will be better for it.<\/p>\n