Update to AG Merrick Garland Fails To Reassure His Critics That The DOJ Is Actively Investigating The January 6 Coup Plotters. In a little noted (and hard to find) move last week, “Over a thousand alumni of the Justice Department––who served under Democratic and Republican administrations––on Friday came out in support of the department’s Jan. … Read more
Business Insider has this helpful reminder to our overly cautious, frustratingly slow as molasses in winter Attorney General Merrick Garland: Time is running out for Biden’s Justice Department to prosecute Trump for 10 possible crimes detailed in the Mueller report: [A] full year out of office — and five years removed from his own swearing-in — … Read more
Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a speech to his Department of Justice on Wednesday heavy on platitudes, but little new news made. Many are trying to read into his words that the DOJ is actively investigating the coup plotters behind the January 6 insurrection, but there has been no public facing evidence that this is … Read more
Attorney General Merrick Garland will give a speech Wednesday about the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Attorney general Garland plans speech on Jan. 6 investigation for Wednesday: In the address, scheduled for the day before the anniversary of the attack, Garland will not speak … Read more
Laurence H. Tribe, Donald Ayer and Dennis Aftergut write at the New York Times, Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection? In his nine months in office, Attorney General Merrick Garland has done a great deal to restore integrity and evenhanded enforcement of the law to an agency that was badly misused for … Read more