Building speculation that President-elect Donald Trump was seriously considering appointing former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) to lead the FBI was brought to an abrupt end Friday, and welcome news it was.

Rogers would have been exactly the same sort of FBI director that has led Trump and so many conservatives to distrust the agency to begin with. A former member of Congress from Michigan and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rogers’s most recent foray into politics was a failed Senate bid in Michigan that came even as Trump carried the state in the presidential election.

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