Attorney General Garland announced that Robert Hur would act as special counsel to investigate Biden’s handling of classified documents.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he has appointed Jack Smith to investigate Trump for interfering with the peaceful transfer of power, the classified documents case, and obstruction of justice.
It took Merrick Garland one less than ten-minute statement to trigger a crisis at Fox News.
Trump responded to Merrick Garland's move to unseal the Mar-a-Lago search warrant by blaming Obama.
Attorney General Merrick Garland responded to attacks from Trump and his supporters by filing a motion in court to unseal the search warrant.
The Department of Justice has announced that they are suing Idaho over their near-total abortion ban.
In his interview with NBC Nightly News, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that DOJ will investigate anyone who interfered with the peaceful transfer of power and made it clear that the Justice Department is doing its own investigation.
The gun, in many ways these days, has become the symbol and means of tyranny, a tool for taking down democracy.
The 1/6 Committee responded to Peter Navarro being charged with contempt of Congress by asking why Mark Meadows has not also been charged.
The thousands of texts obtained by CNN from the 1/6 attack period are leading to calls for Trump and his staff to be investigated for sedition.
As late as last year, President Biden privately said that he would like Attorney General Garland to prosecute Trump.
Merrick Garland and the DOJ have been subpoenaing former officials in Trump's orbit about the rally that led to the Capitol attack.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said that the DOJ is not avoiding 1/6 cases with political implications, but is building the cases outward.
Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) has requested that the DOJ investigate reports of Republicans changing the voter registration of seniors without their consent in Florida.
The non-partisan legal advocacy group Free Speech For People is calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to resign because Trump has not been prosecuted.
Legal scholar Laurence Tribe says Attorney General Merrick Garland has a duty to investigate former President Donald Trump for the insurrection of January 6 or risk the country’s future.
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We need to begin with the fundamental precept that not all crimes are created equal,” Tribe wrote in an op-ed for The Boston Globe. “Those crimes — regardless of who allegedly commits them — whose very aim is to overturn a fair election whereby our tradition of peaceful, lawful succession from one administration to the next takes place — a tradition begun by George Washington, continued by John Adams, and preserved by every president since except Donald Trump — are impossible to tolerate if we are to survive as a constitutional republic.”
The AP and Government Executive issued a correction to their stories about Merrick Garland, turns out it was none other than Trump's AG Bill Barr who "declined" to prosecute Wilbur Ross.
The only way to stop the next Trump administration is to prosecute the last one.
The Department of Justice is filing a lawsuit challenging new voting restrictions in Georgia.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the DOJ‘s action during a press conference this morning.
“This lawsuit is the first of many steps we are taking to ensure that all eligible voters can cast a vote, that all lawful votes are counted, and that every voter has access to accurate information,” he said.
“The rights of all eligible citizens to vote are the central pillars of our democracy,” Garland said. “They are the rights from which all other rights ultimately flow.”
He added: “Where we believe that the civil rights of Americans have been violated, we will not hesitate to act.”
Donald Trump is now out of the White House. That means that he is no longer protected from lawsuits and potential criminal charges. One of those lawsuits was a defamation suit filed by E. Jean Carroll.
When William Barr was Attorney General, he had the Justice Department intervene in the case. And while Merrick Garland is the new AG, the DOJ is still attempting to help Trump.
Last night, Garland received a letter from a number of Democratic lawmakers criticizing the decision. Rep. Jerry Nadler tweeted, “The Department of Justice should not spend taxpayer dollars to defend former President Trump from a defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll. Their decision to do so is profoundly misguided.”
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Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to announce that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will launch an investigation into the policing practices of law enforcement in Minneapolis.
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The investigation will examine practices used by police, including the use of force, and whether the department engages in discriminatory practices, according to the person. It will also look into the department’s handling of misconduct allegations
For 4 years, Donald Trump refused to respond to provocative actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In fact, Trump seemed to do nothing but praise the Russian leader.
Joe Biden, however, will be taking a much different tack with Putin. Biden has famously called the Russian President a killer and told him that, “he has no soul.”
And this week, the US President announced that he would be taking action against Russia for it’s Solar Winds hack on American federal agencies. When announcing the sanctions, Biden said, “
I was clear with President Putin that we could have gone further, but I chose not to do so. Now is the time to de-escalate.”
The filibuster is another way Republicans turn reality and democracy and their heads to install a tyranny of the minority.
Sen. Cruz (R-TX) humiliated himself during Merrick Garland's confirmation with a conspiracy theory rant designed to make people forget his Cancun vacation.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has refused a call to hold a quick confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland, who President Joe Biden has nominated to serve as the nation’s attorney general. Garland’s hearing is scheduled for February 8.
Graham says the hearing is designed to “score political points” ahead of the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, which is scheduled for February 9. Graham still counts himself among Trump’s most loyal supporters despite the former president’s role in inciting a violent insurrection against Congress last month.
“Your request is highly unusual,” Graham wrote in a letter to incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Monday. “The Senate is about to conduct its first ever impeachment trial of a former president, and only its fourth trial of a president,
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The must read full remarks by President-Elect Joe Biden on yesterday's unprecedented violent and deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol and our democracy.
President-elect Joe Biden has selected federal appeals judge Merrick Garland to be the next United States attorney general, a transition official has confirmed. Garland has served on the federal appeals bench since 1997 and previously worked as a federal prosecutor, most prominently securing the conviction of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh during his time with the Justice Department.
Garland is perhaps most well known for the debacle that ensued after he was nominated by former President Barack Obama to serve on the United States Supreme Court. Garland’s nomination came after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, perhaps the court’s most prominent conservative voice. At the time, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Senate majority leader, refused to hold confirmation hearings for Garland, arguing that the pick should not be considered during an election year.
However, McConnell reversed course once President Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, ultimately seating Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, securing a conservative majority on the court. McConnell rushed to confirm Barrett in particular following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ignoring his previous statement about confirming a Supreme Court Justice during an election year.
“Judge Garland will be viewed in a whole new light now,” a Biden aide told CNN.
Biden last month told reporters that he would not wait until the results of the Georgia runoffs to make his decision for attorney general.
On Monday, Attorney General William Barr announced that he will be stepping down from his position shortly before Christmas. His replacement will be Jeff Rosen, who is currently serving as Barr’s number 2.
Rosen, of course, won’t be holding his position for very long. Joe Biden will be taking over as President on January 20th and will be selecting his own Attorney General.
There are a few different names on Biden’s short list, including Merrick Garland and former Alabama senator Doug Jones. Another potential candidate, Sally Yates, is drawing the ire of GOP lawmakers.
While Yates is incredibly qualified and experienced, Republicans are still angry about her role investigating the ties between Donald Trump and Russia.
When asked if he would consider approving Yates as Attorney General, Texas’ John Cornyn simply said, “no.”
Chuck Grassley gave a longer answer. He told reporters, “
I think there’s plenty of people that he wouldn’t have to take a chance on her.” The Iowa senator also referred to Yates previous investigation into Trump as “very worrisome.”
President Obama remembered RBG with a touching statement, but he also threw McConnell's blocking of Merrick Garland's nomination back at him.
Mitch McConnell admitted that his reason for blocking Merrick Garland was a lie and that he would fill a Supreme Court vacancy for Trump in 2020.
After losing his case to keep his financial records secret, Trump appealed the decision to the circuit court headed by Merrick Garland.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) responded to Republican claims that they won the election and can do whatever they want by saying the name Merrick Garland.
Justice has not only been denied to a worthy Supreme Court nominee and the work of the high court. It continues to be denied to the American people.
Judge Merrick Garland was described in a report by the American Bar Association thusly, “Garland has no weaknesses.“ Indeed, “He may be the perfect human being.”
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) admitted that Senate Republicans plan to confirm President Obama's Supreme Court nominee if it looks like they are going to lose the presidential election.
Watch live as President Obama puts the full court press on Republicans in an attempt to break the obstruction of his Supreme Court nominee.
President Obama is ending his two-year Fox News ban, by doing an interview that will air on Fox News Sunday. What is interesting is that the President will be using the interview to hammer Republicans for obstructing his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland.
Democrats are mocking Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley's "very bad recess" because it was a recess full of angry constituents demanding that he do his job.
The Senate Republican blockade of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee is collapsing as two more Republican senators have agreed to meet with Merrick Garland.
In deep red Oklahoma, Republicans didn't fare well in an online poll about their Senate tactics of delaying President Obama's Supreme Court nominee hearings and confirmation. In fact, they were roughly 2-1 against it.
President Obama is turning up the heat on Senate Republicans and pushing them to vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland.
According to Duke, "three open Jewish members" is too many on SCOTUS, because "those Jews" will do "whatever the Jewish agenda is"
Senate Republicans admitted that they are blocking President Obama's Supreme Court nominee as an election tactic. Some Senators admit that they will confirm Obama's Supreme Court pick during the lame duck session if they lose the presidential election in November.
While speaking about President Obama's nomination Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) showed respect for the Constitution that is clearly missing among Senate Republicans.
By calling the Republican bluff with the nomination of Merrick Garland, President Obama has trapped Senate Republicans in their own obstruction, fed the Senate rebellion, and gave Democrats a key issue for November's election.
