Just one day after Republicans secured at least two more years of a Senate majority, Jeff Sessions is out as attorney general. Given President Trump’s public derision of Sessions after he recused himself from the Russia investigation, his departure comes as no surprise. According to his resignation letter, Trump had asked Sessions to step aside, despite reports that chief of staff John Kelly and former White House counsel Don McGahn asked Trump to hold his fire on Sessions until special counsel Robert Mueller released his impending report on possible Russian collusion.

Still, as then-candidate Trump’s first supporter from the Senate and as an acolyte of Trumpian protectionism, Sessions aggressively advanced Trump’s tough-on-crime and immigration agenda. Trump must choose his next attorney general wisely, as the void Sessions leaves behind will inevitably resonate. Here are six suggestions.