Last Wednesday, President-Elect Donald Trump shocked even his allies by nominating Representative Matt Gaetz to be attorney general. Speaker Mike Johnson, a Gaetz ally albeit primly conservative where Gaetz is a libertine, opposed releasing the committee’s work, and the committee deadlocked in a vote. The Gaetz failure doesn’t mean that senators will reject any other picks, but with Gaetz out of the way, the troubled nomination of Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon will be able to get more attention.