Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie visited the White House yesterday amid reports that President Trump is considering him for attorney general. Although Christie technically has the qualifications for the job, choosing him as attorney general would be a political mistake.

Before Christie spent one term as one of the country’s most popular governors and another term as its least popular governor, he served as the U.S. attorney for New Jersey for six years. Christie doubled the size of New Jersey’s anti-corruption unit, convicted literal slave-owners, dozens of gang members, and New Jersey’s top political bosses — including Charles Kushner, the father of Trump’s son-in-law, a senior adviser to the president.