{"id":2378360,"date":"2024-12-10T08:33:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T13:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merrick-garland-is-the-worst-attorney-general-in-u-s-history\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T08:37:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T13:37:01","slug":"merrick-garland-is-the-worst-attorney-general-in-u-s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merrick-garland-is-the-worst-attorney-general-in-u-s-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrick Garland Is The Worst Attorney General In U.S. History"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmerrick-garland-is-the-worst-attorney-general-in-u-s-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2378360&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article critiques Attorney General Merrick Garland, calling him &#8220;America\u2019s worst Attorney\u200c General.&#8221; \u200dIt notes a rare bipartisan agreement on\u2062 his failures, particularly his reluctance to aggressively prosecute political opponents, \u2063like \u200bformer\u2063 President Donald Trump, despite former President BidenS accusations of political bias within the Department\u200d of Justice (DOJ). Biden himself has expressed concerns\u200b about partisan corruption in the DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>The piece\u200b highlights several\u2064 perceived failures of Garland,including:<\/p>\n<p>1. **Political Motivations**: Garland is accused of \u200dpoliticizing \u200bthe DOJ, especially in its attempts to prosecute \u2062Trump during his presidential campaign. Critics claim he\u200c initiated actions against \u2064Trump that\u200d were historically unfounded, including a \u2063controversial\u2064 raid on \u200dTrump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago home.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u2063 **Selectivity in Prosecution**: The article contrasts the harsh prosecution of Trump officials with \u200cthe leniency shown \u200ctoward\u200c Biden regarding classified documents,implying a double standard.<\/p>\n<p>3. **Ignoring Congressional Requests**: Garland is criticized for ignoring a\u200d congressional subpoena related \u200dto Biden while prosecuting Trump officials for similar refusals, demonstrating inconsistency in enforcing legal standards.<\/p>\n<p>4. **Targeting Specific Groups**: The DOJ under \u2062garland is described as <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">unfairly targeting\u200d conservative activists \u2064adn parents<\/a> who protested school\u200c policies,branding them as domestic terrorists,while downplaying violent\u200b actions against pro-life\u200d individuals.<\/p>\n<p>5. **Influence on Local Prosecutions**: The article suggests Garland&#8217;s influence extended to local prosecutors, \u2062who have \u2062pursued criminal charges against Trump, further\u2062 indicating a coordinated effort \u200dwithin the political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>6. **Failure to\u2062 Protect Institutions**: Garland\u2019s inaction is mentioned during \u2063protests against Supreme court \u2062justices after the roe v. Wade draft leak, and he \u2064is criticized for not \u200cprosecuting those who attempted to intimidate the\u2064 justices.<\/p>\n<p>7. **Election Interference**: the article claims Garland&#8217;s DOJ has intervened in state laws related to voter rolls,\u200b allegedly to maintain noncitizen votes, thereby undermining election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The overall message\u2063 portrays Garland \u200das deeply flawed in his \u200crole,biased in\u2064 his prosecutions,and failing to uphold the integrity expected of the nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/garland-on-if-illegal-border-crossing-should-still-be-a-crime-if-hell-prosecute-i-dont-know\/\" title=\"Garland On If Illegal Border Crossing Should Still Be A Crime, If He\u2019ll Prosecute: \u2018I Don\u2019t Know\u2019\">top law enforcement officer<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For once, left and right agree: Merrick Garland is the worst.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised when I first saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/articles\/2024-11-18\/forget-matt-gaetz-merrick-garland-is-americas-worst-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this article<\/a> from MSNBC and CNN contributor Dean Obeidallah declaring Garland to be &ldquo;America&rsquo;s Worst Attorney&nbsp;General.&rdquo; Had it finally dawned on someone in our corporate press that smearing parents as &ldquo;domestic terrorists&rdquo; and prosecuting political opponents of no less stature than a president might have been a bad idea? (No, it hadn&rsquo;t.)<\/p>\n<p>The failure for which Garland deserves infamy, according to Obeidallah, was <em>not trying hard enough<\/em> to throw his boss&rsquo;s presidential opponent in prison. For that insufficient zeal, he says Garland is &ldquo;the biggest failure of an attorney general in our lifetimes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Even Joe Biden, who nominated Garland, appears to have caught onto the fact that Garland&rsquo;s DOJ is infected with partisan corruption. Biden accused Garland&rsquo;s department of having &ldquo;singled out&rdquo; certain targets for prosecution based on political reasons, and then &ldquo;selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted&rdquo; them and &ldquo;treated [them] differently&rdquo; than other defendants.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Raw politics has infected this process,&rdquo; Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/12\/01\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> last Sunday in a letter absolving his son of any federal crimes he might have committed over the past decade. (What an awkward end for Garland, after all he&rsquo;s done to protect the Bidens!)<\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s more correct than he knows. Raw politics, indeed, has rotted the nation&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merrick-garland-hearing-six-takeaways-on-hunter-biden-investigation\/\" title=\"Key points from the Merrick Garland hearing on the Hunter Biden investigation.\">highest law enforcement agency<\/a>. Thanks to Garland, Americans are rapidly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/is-the-doj-playing-politics-most-american-voters-say-yes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">losing confidence<\/a> in the DOJ and its <a href=\"https:\/\/hageman.house.gov\/media\/in-the-news\/nearly-two-thirds-voters-think-fbi-has-been-politically-weaponized-poll-suggests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shock troops<\/a> in the FBI. As Garland prepares to leave his post in disgrace, it&rsquo;s worth revisiting the failures that <em>actually<\/em> make him &ldquo;America&rsquo;s worst attorney general.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Attempting to Throw His Boss&rsquo;s Presidential Opponent in Prison<\/h2>\n<p>The behavior of Garland&rsquo;s DOJ in attempting to throw Donald Trump in prison while he was running for president against Garland&rsquo;s boss <em>is<\/em> disqualifying, but not for the reason Obeidallah claims. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.declassified.live\/p\/trump-moves-to-dismiss-january-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One week<\/a> after Biden declared to the country that &ldquo;I&rsquo;m making sure [Trump] does not become the next president again,&rdquo; Garland tapped Jack Smith as special counsel in charge of running two prosecutions against Trump, one related to his retention of documents and another related to his speech about the 2020 election. At Garland&rsquo;s bidding, Smith attempted to jail the former president for mishandling classified documents, something &ldquo;every U.S. presidential administration since the 1980s&rdquo; has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brianbushard\/2023\/05\/17\/not-just-trump-and-biden-every-administration-since-reagan-mishandled-classified-records-national-archives-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">done<\/a> thanks to complicated laws and the massive logistical scale of presidential records. A judge threw out the case and ruled Smith&rsquo;s appointment <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/15\/judge-in-docs-case-throws-out-dojs-lawfare-against-trump-rules-jack-smiths-appointment-unconstitutional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unconstitutional<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate case, Smith attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/03\/jack-smiths-latest-indictment-is-legally-flawed-and-politically-suspect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criminalize<\/a> Trump&rsquo;s speech and even beliefs about the 2020 election. Relying in part on a federal law written to crack down on fraudulent financial recordkeeping and the destruction of financial records, Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/02\/why-scotus-will-likely-smack-down-two-of-jack-smiths-get-trump-charges-as-non-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">twisted<\/a> Trump&rsquo;s comments into bizarre &ldquo;obstruction&rdquo; and &ldquo;conspiracy&rdquo; charges. Chided <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/28\/scotus-shoots-down-dojs-use-of-obstruction-statute-to-target-j6-prisoners-but-trump-isnt-in-the-clear-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/01\/scotus-immunity-ruling-further-delays-trump-trial-in-jack-smiths-d-c-lawfare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">times<\/a> by the U.S. Supreme Court, Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/25\/jack-smiths-end-of-lawfare-charges-against-trump-proves-it-was-a-political-witch-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tucked tail<\/a> and went home once Trump was elected president in November.<\/p>\n<h2>Raiding a Former President&rsquo;s Home <\/h2>\n<p>One of the most outrageous moments of those prosecutions was the FBI&rsquo;s &ldquo;unannounced&rdquo; 9-hour raid on the Trumps&rsquo; personal home at Mar-a-Lago, in which around 30 agents who were authorized to use &ldquo;deadly force&rdquo; descended on the residence and dug through everything from Mrs. Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/09\/fbi-even-searched-melanias-wardrobe-in-trump-raid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">closet<\/a> to the president&rsquo;s safe. A few days later, Garland <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/11\/attorney-general-merrick-garland-admits-he-personally-approved-fbi-raid-on-trumps-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> he had &ldquo;personally approved&rdquo; the raid. Two years later, Smith&rsquo;s team admitted to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/06\/filings-jack-smith-tampered-with-evidence-in-get-trump-classified-documents-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tampering<\/a> with the evidence they seized from Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<h2>Covering for Biden&rsquo;s Classified Docs Scandal<\/h2>\n<p>At the same time Smith was trying to throw Trump in prison for misuse of documents, Garland&rsquo;s DOJ helped Joe Biden get away with the improper retention of classified records. When records from Biden&rsquo;s tenure as vice president were found in his garage and at the Penn Biden Center, the FBI played nice. Not only were none of Biden&rsquo;s residences raided, but the FBI let Biden&rsquo;s attorneys go through the documents first <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/evidence-justify-fbi-search-documents-biden-home-experts\/story?id=96488911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">without<\/a> agency supervision. A special counsel selected by Garland to investigate Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/16\/special-counsel-lets-biden-off-scot-free-in-classified-docs-case-while-doj-tries-to-imprison-trump-for-the-same-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declined<\/a> to charge him because he was a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/12\/hur-highlights-dojs-totalitarian-double-standards-on-handling-classified-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sympathetic<\/a> &ldquo;elderly man with a poor memory&rdquo; whom it would be difficult to convince a jury had committed a crime that &ldquo;requires a mental state of willfulness.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Ignoring a Congressional Subpoena &hellip;<\/h2>\n<p>When Robert Hur declined to prosecute Biden for his likely crimes involving classified documents, his reasoning &mdash; combined with Biden&rsquo;s public exhibition of dementia symptoms &mdash; increased concerns about the mental capacities of the man ostensibly running the country. Facing demands to release the audio tapes from Hur&rsquo;s interviews with Biden, Garland <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/16\/if-joe-biden-is-sharp-as-ever-why-is-he-trying-to-suppress-the-hur-audio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> to make them public to the American people. Even when Congress issued a subpoena to Garland for the audio, he ignored it.<\/p>\n<h2>&hellip; While Imprisoning Trump Officials for Ignoring Subpoenas<\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Garland DOJ successfully sought jail time for Trump officials Peter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/peter-navarro-indicted-contempt-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Navarro<\/a> and Steve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/stephen-k-bannon-indicted-contempt-congress\">Bann<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/stephen-k-bannon-indicted-contempt-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">o<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/stephen-k-bannon-indicted-contempt-congress\">n<\/a> for refusing to answer congressional subpoenas. Announcing Bannon&rsquo;s indictment, Garland crowed that the charges &ldquo;reflect the department&rsquo;s steadfast commitment&rdquo; to the &ldquo;rule of law.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>When the House of Representatives voted to hold Garland in contempt of Congress for ignoring <em>his<\/em> subpoena, however, Garland&rsquo;s own Justice Department &ldquo;quickly&nbsp;said&nbsp;it would not prosecute Garland for contempt,&rdquo; as Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/01\/house-republicans-sue-merrick-garland-biden-audio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> at the time without a hint of irony.<\/p>\n<h2>Leaving Fingerprints on &lsquo;Get Trump&rsquo; Lawfare in New York, Georgia<\/h2>\n<p>Garland&rsquo;s DOJ wasn&rsquo;t the only entity trying to cash in on the fad of prosecuting Trump. When Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg prosecuted Trump for, basically, trying to shape public opinion about himself while he was campaigning for president, he somehow coaxed Matthew Colangelo to leave his cushy post as Garland&rsquo;s third-in-command to join the local prosecutor&rsquo;s team. Before that, someone had magically <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/03\/joe-bidens-fingerprints-are-all-over-the-criminal-prosecutions-of-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">convinced<\/a> Bragg to pursue the prosecution despite his previous decision &ldquo;not to seek criminal charges&rdquo; against the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, members of Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis&rsquo; team prosecuting Trump in Georgia mysteriously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/03\/joe-bidens-fingerprints-are-all-over-the-criminal-prosecutions-of-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">met<\/a> with Biden White House officials multiple times.<\/p>\n<h2>Fiddling as SCOTUS Faced Unlawful Intimidation Mobs<\/h2>\n<p>After a draft of the Supreme Court&rsquo;s opinion overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> was leaked in May 2022, mobs of pro-abortion activists swarmed the homes of Republican-appointed justices who were expected to make up the majority. It was obvious their intention was to intimidate and pressure the justices into abandoning the draft in their final ruling, which is illegal under 18 U.S.C. &sect;1507. But Garland&rsquo;s DOJ didn&rsquo;t lift a finger to stop the lawbreaking for a month, until a man went to Brett Kavanaugh&rsquo;s home with weapons and home invasion tools and told police of his plans to kill the justice. Nearly a year later, a DOJ whistleblower <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/30\/biden-doj-throttled-arrests-of-violent-abortion-mob-surrounding-supreme-court-justices-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> training slides instructing U.S. Marshals that &ldquo;making arrests and initiating prosecutions is&nbsp;<em>not<\/em>&nbsp;the goal of USMS presence at SCOTUS residences.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Prosecuting Peaceful Pro-Life Protesters<\/h2>\n<p>Early on the morning of Sept. 23, 2022, more than a dozen FBI agents carrying rifles <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/26\/fbi-raids-pro-lifers-home-arrests-him-in-front-of-his-kids-after-ignoring-pro-abortion-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swarmed<\/a> the home of pro-life father-of-seven Mark Houck. Houck was accused of &ldquo;attacking a patient escort&rdquo; at a Planned Parenthood facility in violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Houck contended that he had physically blocked the man from harassing his 12-year-old son, and the man&rsquo;s attempt to sue Houck over the incident was thrown out of district court. Although a jury eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/253477\/breaking-mark-houck-cleared-of-face-act-charges-in-rebuke-to-justice-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">acquitted<\/a> Houck, the process was the punishment.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Houck, the Garland DOJ has put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2573000\/abortion-opponents-see-sharp-rise-in-face-act-charges-under-biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dozens<\/a> of other pro-life activists through prosecution &mdash; and some in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/14\/peaceful-pro-lifer-gets-years-in-prison-after-biden-doj-targeted-her-under-face-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prison<\/a> &mdash; for peaceful demonstrations at abortion facilities. Meanwhile, the agency showed substantially less aggression in prosecuting the culprits who vandalized, firebombed, or otherwise intimidated <a href=\"https:\/\/sbaprolife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6.15.22-Pro-Abortion-Vandalism-Violence-Interruptions-Of-Worship.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 40<\/a> pro-life individuals and organizations.<\/p>\n<h2>Targeting Parents as &lsquo;Domestic Terrorists&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>During Garland&rsquo;s first year in office, parents nationwide began exercising their rights to speak out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/father-teacher-slam-elite-private-schools-for-their-obsession-with-race\/\" title=\"Father, Teacher Slam Elite Private Schools For Their Obsession With Race\">public school board meetings<\/a> in protest of post-Covid school closures, mask mandates, and racial and sexual dogma in their children&rsquo;s schools. In a letter later <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/11\/bidens-education-secretary-miguel-cardona-commissioned-nsba-letter-smearing-parents-as-domestic-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alleged<\/a> to be at the &ldquo;request&rdquo; of the Biden administration, the National School Boards Association asked Biden to crack down on these parents using domestic terrorism laws. Just days later, Garland happily complied, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-addresses-violent-threats-against-school-officials-and-teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directing<\/a> the FBI and U.S. Attorneys to work with local law enforcement to go after these parents.<\/p>\n<h2>Overseeing FBI Targeting of Catholics<\/h2>\n<p>As an agency within DOJ, the FBI is ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about\/faqs\/who-monitors-or-oversees-the-fbi#:~:text=Within%20the%20U.S.%20Department%20of,the%20Director%20of%20National%20Intelligence.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responsible<\/a> to the attorney general, so Garland bears blame for the many abuses of power perpetrated by the FBI during his tenure. One of those was the creation of a 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/09\/fbi-retracts-memo-labeling-traditional-catholics-violent-white-supremacists-pushing-infiltration-of-christian-communities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memo<\/a> out of the FBI&rsquo;s Richmond field office painting &ldquo;Radical-Traditionalist Catholics&rdquo; who attend Latin mass as connected to &ldquo;Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists&rdquo; and white supremacist ideology.&rdquo; It was later <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2023-08-09-jdj-mj-to-wray-re-catholic-dp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> that at least two other field offices &ldquo;were involved in or contributed to the creation of FBI&rsquo;s assessment of traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Suing States to Keep Noncitizens on Voter Rolls<\/h2>\n<p>Shortly before the 2024 election, after the state of Virginia had removed 6,000 noncitizens from its voter rolls, Garland&rsquo;s DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/19\/we-all-know-why-the-biden-doj-is-ignoring-pennsylvania-democrats-election-lawbreaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued<\/a> Virginia to keep Gov. Glenn Youngkin from continuing to remove foreign nationals, who are ineligible to vote. The DOJ had previously brought a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2024\/09\/30\/biden-harris-justice-department-follows-splc-script-on-noncitizen-voting-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">similar<\/a>&nbsp;lawsuit against Alabama in September, and Garland promised in March to target popular state laws requiring voter ID.<\/p>\n<p>When Democrat county boards in Pennsylvania publicly decided to count legally disqualified ballots in November, however, Garland was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n<h2>Covering for Biden Family Crimes<\/h2>\n<p>Documents and testimony from IRS whistleblowers <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/22\/irs-whistleblower-docs-show-doj-obstructed-investigation-into-his-son-to-protect-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> that the Justice Department had hampered a tax investigation into Hunter Biden. The interference began before Garland&rsquo;s tenure at DOJ, but under Garland, &ldquo;at least two Biden DOJ political appointees in U.S. attorneys&rsquo; offices&rdquo; had &ldquo;declined to seek a tax indictment against Hunter Biden despite career investigators&rsquo; recommendations to do so,&rdquo; Just The News <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/political-ethics\/hldsenior-irs-agent-blows-whistle-alleging-bide-doj-thwarting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> based on whistleblower allegations in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Garland promoted David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware who had been investigating Hunter Biden during the period in which IRS whistleblowers said the DOJ was stonewalling <em>their<\/em> investigation, to special counsel just a few months after the whistleblower allegations came to light. Before that, Garland told members of Congress that Weiss had possessed &ldquo;full authority&rdquo; in charging decisions related to Hunter Biden, a claim that whistleblowers said Weiss had flatly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/26\/irs-whistleblower-emails-suggest-david-weiss-misled-congress-in-letter-claiming-charging-authority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contradicted<\/a> in meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss ended up arranging a sweetheart plea deal designed to let the younger Biden escape accountability for his crimes, until it fell apart under a judge&rsquo;s scrutiny in court. The DOJ let the statute of limitations expire on a number of tax crimes and never charged Biden with more serious offenses in which he was implicated, such as money laundering or bribery.<\/p>\n<h2>Targeting IRS Whistleblowers Who Revealed the Cover-Up<\/h2>\n<p>When the allegations of DOJ interference on behalf of the Bidens became public in 2023, one of the whistleblowers and &ldquo;his entire team&rdquo; were removed from the Biden investigation &ldquo;at the request of the Department of Justice,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/16\/whistleblower-irs-removed-my-entire-investigative-team-on-the-hunter-biden-tax-probe-at-dojs-request\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to the whistleblower&rsquo;s lawyer.<\/p>\n<h2>Twisting Laws to Make a Political Example out of J6 Protesters<\/h2>\n<p>Under Garland, DOJ prosecutors led by D.C. U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2024\/12\/09\/nearly_4_years_later_no_letup_in_jan_6_prosecutions_possible_pardons_or_not_1077077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charged<\/a> more than 1,500 people for their presence inside the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. As media outlets, congressional Democrats, and President Biden sought to make an example out of the pro-Trump protesters, the DOJ invoked laws &ldquo;never before used against political protesters,&rdquo; as investigative reporter Julie Kelly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2024\/12\/09\/nearly_4_years_later_no_letup_in_jan_6_prosecutions_possible_pardons_or_not_1077077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Sentences range from a few days in jail to up to 22 years as the DOJ seeks &lsquo;terror enhancements&rsquo; to tack on additional time,&rdquo; Kelly reported. So eager was the DOJ to punish these J6ers that prosecutors tried to use the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, written to crack down on financial fraud, to charge hundreds of people with &ldquo;obstruction of an official proceeding.&rdquo; The Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/28\/supreme-court-tosses-obstruction-charges-for-j6-defendants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shot down<\/a> this interpretation earlier this year.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Elle Purnell is the elections editor at The Federalist. Her work has been featured by Fox Business, RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum. She received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @_ellepurnell.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merrick Garland is widely criticized as the worst Attorney General<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":2378361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/53287395466_712e5aa865_k-e1733775314821.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32116,46486,32465,32171,36743],"class_list":["post-2378360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-attorney-general","tag-legal-critique","tag-merrick-garland","tag-political-commentary","tag-u-s-history"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/53287395466_712e5aa865_k-e1733775314821.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378364,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378360\/revisions\/2378364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2378361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}