Attorney General Merrick Garland became visibly agitated during a tense exchange Wednesday over the FBI’s controversial January memo about Catholics.
The attorney general was once in the running for a post on the Supreme Court.“Mr. Attorney General,” Van Drew countered. “It was your FBI that did this. It was your FBI and we have the memos and emails [discussing] sending sending undercover agents into Catholic churches.”
Jeff Van Drew changed his party affiliation to Republican during the final year of the Trump administration.Merrick Garland insisted that he gave David Weiss the authority needed to pursue the case against Hunter Biden.Garland, who is Jewish, noted earlier in the hearing that his family had “fled religious persecution in Eastern Europe at the start of the 20th century.”
Jim Jordan has been on a crusade to combat what he describes as the weaponization of the federal government against conservatives.Throughout the contentious hearing, Republicans berated Garland, accusing his Justice Department of having two standards of justice for former President Donald Trump and first son Hunter Biden.
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