The Senate must stand up against Trump’s outrageous nominations

This isn’t a president’s Cabinet. The list of Donald Trump’s nominations is starting to read more like a fantasy draft put together in the hotel bar during a Conservative Political Action Conference. What the president-elect has done with his latest round of picks, including his jaw-dropping selection of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general, is offer a middle finger to the Senate.

Trump expects senators to go along with putting a provocateur and conspiracy theorist who was the subject of a federal sex-trafficking investigation in charge of the nation’s criminal justice apparatus..