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The U.S. filed a notice that the former president does not object to the government’s Motion to Unseal Limited Warrant Materials and requests that the court grant its motion.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Justice Department has filed a motion to unseal parts of a search warrant executed at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a speech reviewing the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the attack on the Capitol.
The attorney general is steeped in the Justice Department’s culture of quietness. He needs to talk more—like Ed Levi, the man he points to as his model.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced pattern-or-practice investigations into police in both Minneapolis and Louisville after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. What are these investigations, and what can they do?
After four years of attacks from Trump, journalists thought the worst was over. But Trump’s left a legacy at the Justice Department that Biden’s attorney general will need to undo.
The hearing was polite, informative and moving—and nonetheless reflected the post-truth world in which Republican senators choose to live.
On Monday, February 22, 2021, at 9:30 a.m., the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general.
You can watch a livestream of the hearing here or below:
This morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he had spoken to President Trump regarding James Comey’s replacement for the FBI Director and recommended Merrick Garland. McConnell isn’t the first person to suggest the idea. Republican Senator Mike Lee previously floated Garland for FBI Director as well.
Neil Gorsuch is an eminent jurist who is undoubtedly qualified to be an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. So too is Merrick Garland. In the law of the jungle that now governs the confirmation process, where principle is absent and power politics alone is what matters, Gorsuch will likely make it to the Supreme Court for the same reason that Garland did not: The Republicans controlled the Senate last year when Obama was President, and continue to control it now when Trump is President. Elections have consequences and the Democrats lost the key ones.