President-elect Donald Trump has named Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, to be his attorney general, putting the controversial conservative in charge of the Justice Department as he tries to bring the agency under more direct presidential control.

In picking Rep. Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump is looking to install a fierce loyalist — who has been seen as divisive even within his own party — over some of the more established attorneys whose names had been mentioned for the nation's top federal prosecutor post.