Nominee Garland says politics won't influence DOJ criminal probes
Posted on AllSides February 22nd, 2021
From The Center
President Joe Biden’s attorney general nominee, Merrick Garland, vowed on Monday to protect the integrity of the Justice Department from partisan influence, in an effort to restore confidence after President Donald Trump repeatedly sought to bend the department to his will. Trump, a Republican who lost to Biden in November, for years attacked Justice Department investigations of his 2016 campaign and Russian election interference as a “witch hunt” or a “hoax.”
Garland, in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, also vowed to make the investigation of the Jan....