The nomination of former Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general sharpened focus on President-elect Donald Trump’s earlier call for the incoming Republican-controlled Senate to allow recess appointments.

It would be difficult to find a congressmember, even one without a law degree, less suitable to run the Department of Justice than Gaetz. He is a vulgar performative politician and troll, not an official who can be plausibly presented as interested in the serious requirements of good government.