In the week since his second presidential election, Donald Trump has rewarded those who have been loyal to him with promises of top positions in his second administration, a dynamic that reached a new level on Wednesday when the president-elect announced that Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz would be his nominee for Attorney General.

Most candidates to lead the Justice Department spend years practicing law or serving as a federal prosecutor or federal judge before their appointment. But Gaetz, 42, was a practicing lawyer for just two years before becoming a lawmaker. More unprecedented than that,........

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