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Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a meeting with all of the U.S. Attorneys to discuss violent crime reduction strategies at the Department of Justice in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Garland’s White House conflict of interest

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department's Criminal Division speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Sept. 13, 2022. The head of the Justice Department’s criminal division is leaving at the end of July after two years of overseeing work that ranges from corporate fraud prosecution to war crimes investigations. Polite's tenure has included work to combat human smuggling, prosecute white-collar crime and pursue accountability for Russian war crimes in Ukraine, Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Top official in Justice Department’s criminal division to depart

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a press conference to announce arrests and disruptions of the fentanyl precursor chemical supply chain on Friday, June 23, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

AG Merrick Garland set for September grilling by Jim Jordan, GOP critics

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland arrives with President Joe Biden for an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 13, 2022, to highlight state and local leaders who are investing American Rescue Plan funding. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Ted Cruz calls for special counsel to probe AG Garland while House GOP threatens impeachment inquiry

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a meeting with all of the U.S. Attorneys to discuss violent crime reduction strategies at the Department of Justice in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Attorney General Garland keeps poker face as firestorm erupts after Trump charges

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Select Subcommittee hearing, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Federal Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, weighing whether House Republicans can question a former prosecutor about the Manhattan criminal case against former President Donald Trump, posed dozens of questions, in New York, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, to lawyers on both sides, asking them to parse thorny issues of sovereignty, separation of powers and Congressional oversight arising from Trump's historic indictment. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Jordan wants to know depth of FBI’s role in special counsel’s probe of Trump

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Virginia attorney general-elect Jason Miyares enters the room to address a the media inside the Pocahontas Building in Richmond, Va. Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Virginia AG rips Justice Department over failure to guard Supreme Court justices at home

By Alex Swoyer and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illegal fentanyl is safely handled and contained. File photo credit: Darwin Brandis via Shutterstock.

DOJ announces takedown of fentanyl trafficking ring in dark shadows of the web

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland appears before a House appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

AG Garland tells Congress he needs controversial spying power to keep China in check

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A U.S. Marshal patrols outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in Chevy Chase, Md., June 8, 2022. The House has given final approval to legislation to allow around-the-clock security protection for families of Supreme Court justices. The vote on Tuesday came one week after a man carrying a gun, knife and zip ties was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house after threatening to kill the justice. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

U.S. Marshals told not to arrest protesters outside justices’ homes, documents reveal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden, listens as Attorney General Merrick Garland, left, speaks during a virtual meeting with family and independent farmers and ranchers at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, to discuss work to boost competition and reduce prices in the meat-processing industry. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

How local cops balked when Biden, AG Garland unleashed counterterrorism agents on school parents

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

This photo provided by Taylor Legal Team shows Rejon Taylor. Taylor hoped the election of Joe Biden, the first U.S. president to campaign on a pledge to end the death penalty, would mean a more sympathetic look at his claims that racial bias and other trial errors landed him on federal death row in Terre Haute, Ind. But two years on, Justice Department attorneys under Biden are fighting the Black man's efforts to reverse his 2008 death sentence for killing a white restaurateur as hard as they did under Donald Trump, who oversaw 13 executions in his presidency's final months. (Taylor Legal Team via AP)

Biden’s Justice Dept. keeps hard line in death row cases

By Michael Tarm and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Attorney General Merrick Garland listens to a question during a news conference, Tuesday, March 7, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FBI officials weren’t sold on AG Garland’s school board memo, emails show

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a press conference at Louisville Metro Hall in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, March 8, 2023. The U.S. Justice Department has found Louisville police have engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights following an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley

Biden admin used counterterrorism powers against parents without cause: House Judiciary report

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on Capitol Hill, Feb. 8, 2023, in Washington. House Republicans are launching far-reaching investigations as part of their oversight agenda of the Biden administration. “We have a constitutional duty to do oversight," said Jordan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Jordan subpoenas DHS’ ousted disinformation chief, school board officials who challenged parents

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland, center, walks past Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., front left, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as he arrives to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee as they examine the Department of Justice, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Cruz, Garland spar over threats to Supreme Court justices in wake of abortion ruling

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies as the Senate Judiciary Committee examines the Department of Justice, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Merrick Garland says those attacking pro-life centers too ‘clever’ for FBI: ‘They work at night’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Washington, in this file photo. After the not-guilty verdict was reached in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial on Friday, Nov. 19, Mr. Cotton called President Biden for essentially calling the teenager a white supremacist during the 2020 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool) **FILE**

Sen. Tom Cotton challenges U.S. asylum policy, says New Orleans more dangerous than Honduras

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Charles McGonigal, former special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York, leaves court, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in New York. The former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has been indicted on charges he helped a Russian oligarch, in violation of U.S. sanctions. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ** FILE **

Arrest of former FBI official revives Trump-Russia conspiracy theories

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Charles McGonigal, former special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York, leaves court, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in New York. The former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has been indicted on charges he helped a Russian oligarch, in violation of U.S. sanctions. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ** FILE **

Senators to grill Garland about rogue FBI agent involved in Trump-Russia investigation

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times