Entirely expected.
Alberto was a truly lousy attorney general, completely incompetent, and not partisan enough, at least from a conservative point of view. But it’s too bad he decided to step down, because there isn’t a chance in hades that Bush will be able to confirm a decent replacement during the remainder of his term.
The left wing of the party is slavering for impeachment, and the first step toward that would be to put their own leftist in as attorney general, as they succeeded in doing with Nixon. Hopefully Bush understands that scenario and won’t agree.
Nominate Olson.
If he doesn’t get through, then just keep Paul Clement as acting AG. Clement is young, bright, capable, and conservative.
Either way we win.