In truth, while Garland might occasionally - only when faced with no real options - put the Biden administration in an uncomfortable political position, he has regularly weaponized the agency to target the president's political enemies, from pro-life protesters to concerned parents to presidential candidates.
While left-wing pro-Hamas protesters were rioting and targeting Jews, Garland was still fearmongering over the coming MAGA extremist revolution, inflating the threat with bogus statistics.
While Garland did nothing about those illegally picketing the homes of federal judges and attempting to intimidate them and influence cases - even after an assassin tried to kill Brett Kavanaugh - the DOJ was deploying armed teams to raid the homes of pro-life families and prosecuting elderly anti-abortion protesters for praying in front of "Clinics."
Not only did Garland form a "Task force" to investigate local parents who were protesting authoritarian Covid restrictions and racist curriculums, but he refused to dissolve the effort even after the National School Boards Association apologized for the letter that sparked it.
To begin with, Garland ignored the law and appointed a counsel from within the government.
In his remarks to Congress today, Garland promised that he "Will not back down from defending our democracy," despite the "Repeated attacks" and "Conspiracy theor[ies]" regarding the DOJ. Some conspiracy theories exist, no doubt, but most criticisms of Garland's work are legitimate.
If the system were working properly, Garland would be impeached.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/04/merrick-garland-shouldnt-be-praised-he-should-be-impeached/
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