Excellent account of the situation at the Justice Department from @johnson_carrie. So ask yourself this: Does a senator who was U.S. attorney in Alabama years ago have this kind of "intimate familiarity" with the Justice Department?
https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/12/08/944224549/next-attorney-general-must-lead-salvage-operation-at-justice-insiders-say?live=1

Of the people on this list, Merrick Garland—as I have said before—would be the dream candidate. It would make a real statement.

I also think that both Lisa Monaco and Jeh Johnson would be excellent picks.

I am less bullish on Sally Yates than many people, largely....

...because I think the next attorney general should be someone who had nothing to do with supervising either the Russia investigation or the Clinton email investigation.

But Doug Jones—fine man though he may be—is simply unqualified next to rest of these candidates.