Poised to take over a beleaguered Justice Department, Merrick Garland may face his biggest test

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If confirmed as attorney general, Merrick Garland will be expected to rekindle the department’s reputation for independence, while contending with challenges stemming from the threat of right-wing extremism, the push for racial equality in the justice system and the fallout from the Capitol riot.

of right-wing extremism, the push for racial equality in the justice system, and the continuing fallout from the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.

The investigation was sprawling, Gorelick told Yahoo News. “The FBI had fanned out across the country,” she said. “There were [about] five or six U.S. attorneys’ offices involved. And it was his job to bring them together to make sure that the investigations were done by the book and that the prosecutions were well-founded and successful.”

“I remember it because I was scared to death,” Ryan said. “It was my first day as U.S. attorney. I’d never handled anything like this. So I was really glad to have someone like Merrick there, who had been around, who had dealt with some of these major matters in the past, and he gave a lot of good guidance.”

“These were threats to our democracy,” said McCord, a former acting assistant attorney general and federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. “This was an effort to prevent the federal law from being implemented, an effort to prevent the joint session of Congress from doing its job under the Electoral Count Act. So the federal interest really couldn’t be stronger here.

His career trajectory includes a stint at Arnold & Porter, a private D.C. law firm, where he rose through the ranks to become a partner. He departed the firm to work as a federal prosecutor under Jay Stephens, the Republican-appointed U.S. attorney in Washington, from 1989 to 1992.

 

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He lost my support when he started weeping at today's hearing. It must be something endemic with the Biden folks. Biden and others cry while talking in public. It's okay to cry in private, even for a man, but this is the United States of America, folks. Be strong!

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