Todd Blanche’s attempt to join Washington’s most exclusive club crashed and burned as members flatly rejected him.

Last year, Blanche began the process to join the Metropolitan Club, one of Washington’s oldest private clubs. Membership application requires two sponsors and at least eight supportive letters from current members.

Blanche was sponsored by Bill Burck, global co-managing partner of the law firm Quinn Emanuel. Burck is also a close friend of Blanche’s. They met while working in the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York. Blanche’s other sponsor was James M. McDonald, a litigation partner at Sullivan and Cromwell who leads the firm’s securities and commodities investigations practice.

However, Blanche had some difficulty securing the nod from eight current members.

According to Politico, more than half a dozen current members wrote letters to the Metropolitan Club’s board of directors to object to Blanche’s joining, saying he’s too polarizing and has politicized the Justice Department.

“He is targeting a lot of people, and the Justice Department is targeting a lot of the members of the club, like judges, nonprofit organizations and universities,” one member wrote.

“The Trump administration is at war with most American institutions, and so the people who represent those institutions, many of them are at the club,” the member added. “And the club is the kind of place where you want to be able to relax and have a congenial conversation. But if he’s in there, given that the Justice Department is so combative and aggressive, this is not the kind of tone that we want.”

A second member wrote that Blanche’s comments supporting Trump weaponizing the DOJ to go after his perceived political enemies are “pretty startling.”

“I am disappointed that the club’s standards are slipping on so many levels and can only hope that the club leadership will recover, grab the rudder and set us on a smooth sail once again,” wrote a third Metropolitan Club member who does not want Blanche to become a member.

Early Saturday morning, the Republican controlled Senate narrowly voted to confirm Blanche as attorney general.

The Senate voted 50-49 to approve him, with GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining with Democrats in opposition. Democrats and both Republican senators who opposed Blanche’s confirmation argue that he is not the right person for the job.

“The country needs an Attorney General who will check the worst impulses of this administration,” Murkowski said. “I hope Mr. Blanche is able to achieve that, if confirmed, but I simply do not have confidence that will be the case.”