. Garland’s nomination to head the Justice Department will be made official after Biden takes office on Jan. 20.Garland is currently a judge on the powerful US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. With Democrats taking over the Senate, Biden will have a much easier time replacing him on the court, which is the main venue for fights over federal government actions and executive power, and has long been a springboard to the Supreme Court.
A major challenge for Garland leading the Justice Department will be to figure out how to handle the numerous active court cases in which the department is defending Trump administration policies that Democrats oppose.
Attorney General Bill Barr’s tenure was marked by rare public pushback from career prosecutors to decisions made by Barr and other senior political appointees that benefitted Trump and his allies, from intervening in criminal prosecutions stemming from the Mueller probe to easing limits on Justice Department activity before and after an election, a move that served to underscore Trump’s baseless voter fraud claims.
in November that Biden did not want his administration to get weighed down by probes into Trump and his administration.“I'm not going to be saying, 'Go prosecute A, B, or C.' I'm not going to be telling them. That's not the role. It's not my Justice Department, it's the people's Justice Department.
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