They fear Mr Garland is not fortifying his department against the next rule-bending attorney-general-as one of his heroes and predecessors, Edward Levi, did in the aftermath of Watergate. Some rule-of-law experts, led by Jack Goldsmith, a conservative scholar at Harvard Law School, have added to it. Why, asked the Nation, is he “carrying water for Bill Barr?” After the department began charging small-fry insurrectionists, but no political bigwig, the sniping from the left increased. Jean Carroll, who claims to have been raped by the former president. Mr Garland’s Do J has, for example, continued to defend Mr Trump in a defamation suit brought by a journalist, E. Left-wing activists, who want a reckoning at the Do J, not a return to normality, have criticised him for failing to reverse some of his predecessor’s decisions. Outside the department he faces more scepticism. “It was abhorrent the way Barr politicised what we do,” one says. He has been methodical in handling the Capitol-riot investigations and taciturn to the point of inscrutability. And ten months into his tenure he has lived up to that billing. He promised to be the least political attorney-general since Janet Reno, three decades before. There and on the Washington, DC, appellate circuit, which he also led, he was known for his intellect, moderation and discretion. The owlish 69-year-old is a Do J veteran who led celebrated investigations of the Oklahoma City bombing and Unabomber cases in the 1990s. This week, the Justice Department as part of its criminal investigation searched his home, and a federal grand jury issued nine subpoenas to officials in four states as part of its inquiry into the alleged effort to use fake electors.Even setting aside the symbolism of his appointment, Mr Garland looked a good choice to right the ship. When previously interviewed by the committee, Clark repeatedly invoked his right against self-incrimination. The request allegedly came as Trump was scrambling for ways to slow the transfer of power, with messages between Meadows and Perry discussing strategies to undercut state vote tallies. Representative Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, led Thursday’s hearing as former Justice Department leaders described how Jeffrey Clark-a DOJ lawyer who text messages showed was pushed forward by Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Pennsylvania Representative Scott Perry-asked to be put in charge of the Justice Department. The strategy, according to Select Committee Chair and Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, was to help Trump “steal an election he already lost.” The unsent letter, electronic message evidence and testimony by senior members of the Trump Justice Department combined today to describe what panel members said was a desperate effort to erase the election of Joe Biden and keep Trump at the head of the American government. Key to this unprecedented endeavor, the committee argued, was a letter written by a midlevel environmental lawyer-to be signed by top Justice Department officials-falsely claiming election fraud in swing states. 6 committee on Thursday moved to depict how the former president and his aides sought to use the formidable authority of the Department of Justice to keep him in power. Having already painted a picture of Donald Trump allegedly directing or at the very least being keenly aware of a wide-ranging plan to subvert the 2020 US presidential election, the Jan.
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