Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a good, honorable and intelligent man who will do an excellent job as our country’s top law enforcement officer.

The former U.S. senator from Alabama, who was confirmed as attorney general Wednesday evening, served with distinction and humility in the Senate for a number of years and has proven he can work across the aisle to get things done for the betterment of this country.

Unlike his predecessors, former attorneys general Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, Sessions will actually follow and enforce the laws of this country, rather than just those with which they happened to agree.

Sessions didn’t deserve the treatment he received from his Democratic colleagues in the Senate during his confirmation hearings. It’s a sad reality that if you are from the South, some of those who oppose you will stoop to suggest you are racist or homophobic.

Unfortunately, these types of labels were put on Sessions during his confirmation hearings.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., an extreme liberal from an ultra-liberal state, used code words to call Sessions a racist and said he tried to suppress black people’s rights to vote.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

As a U.S. attorney, he filed several cases to desegregate schools in Alabama. He also prosecuted Klansman Henry Francis Hays for abducting and killing Michael Donald, a black teenager selected at random in Mobile, Ala., in 1981. Sessions insisted on the death penalty for Hays. When he was later elected the state attorney general, Sessions followed through and made sure Hays was executed. The successful prosecution of Hays also led to a $7 million civil judgment against the Klan, effectively breaking the back of the KKK in Alabama.

These aren’t the actions of a racist. These are the actions of someone in an elected position who sought and got justice for the Donald family and put the Ku Klux Klan out of business in Alabama.

To suggest otherwise, as Warren, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and others in the Senate have done, is simply playing the race card on a man whose record shows that he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body.

Warren, Murray and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., also said Sessions was extreme on immigration. If you call someone who believes in the immigration laws on the books “extreme,” then Sessions should wear that label with pride. We would suggest that those with contempt for the rule of law are extremists.

Unlike Holder and Lynch, Sessions will actually enforce our nation’s immigration laws. This will be a nice change from the last eight years of an administration that turned a blind eye to them.

Those who attacked Sessions should be truly ashamed of themselves for attacking and spreading lies. They tried to disparage him on every occasion during this process, which reflects desperation and mean-spiritedness.

Sessions was a great pick by President Donald Trump. He will bring respect for the rule of law back to the Justice Department and he will be tough on the enforcement of immigration laws, drug and gun trafficking and much more.

We congratulate Sessions on his confirmation and have full confidence he will follow and enforce the laws of this land.