#merrick-garland

#merrick-garland

At a press availability yesterday, Merrick Garland repeated a line he often uses, that DOJ applies the law the same for everyone."We do not have different rules for Democrats or Republicans, different rules for the powerful or the powerless, different rules for the rich and for the poor, we apply the facts, and the law in each case in a neutral, non-partisan manner," Garland told reporters during a press availability at Justice Department headquarters.

With Joe Biden and Donald Trump's political futures both hanging in the balance of special counsel investigations, NBC's Chuck Todd observed that Attorney General Merrick Garland currently has more power than anyone else to influence the 2024 presidential election.Todd joined Willie Geist on Sunday TODAY to discuss Garland's appointment of a special counsel last week to investigate the discovery of classified documents in Biden's home and former private office.

Given the discovery of two sets of documents at Joe Biden's house, Merrick Garland has appointed former Maryland US Attorney Robert Hur as Special Counsel to investigate that case.I don't think this is a bad thing.It will eliminate any claim of bias and ensure a report can be filed at the end.And it will stave off GOP interference in the case.

MSNBC's Jason Johnson mocked Fox News host Tucker Carlson over the latter's call for President Joe Biden to somehow stop a potential indictment of Donald Trump by Manhattan's district attorney.Alvin Bragg is reportedly mulling whether to indict Trump for falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 payment he allegedly made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

Former Donald Trump attorney Timothy Parlatore, who departed the former president's legal team earlier this week, said Saturday he left because of infighting among the group.It had nothing to do with the case itself or the client, Parlatore told CNN's Paula Reid on Newsroom.The real reason is because there are certain individuals that made defending the president much harder than it needed to be.

Russia is deploying the most experienced units of the mercenary Wagner group and its army in an attempt to seize the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian military has said.The commander of Ukraine's ground forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, was pictured visiting the frontline city on Friday for briefings with local commanders on how to boost defence capacity.

Ukraine announced it had fought off a fresh Russian assault on the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut on Saturday, as it endured renewed shelling in the Donetsk region.In his evening address, Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged that the situation was getting tougher.Russia, he said, was throwing more and more of its forces at breaking down our defence.

I'm seeing people ask why Merrick Garland hasn't appointed a Special Counsel yet to investigate Mike Pence when (the claim is) he did for President Biden.The answer is ... that's not what happened.DOJ learned about the documents at Pence's house no earlier than January 18 (probably on January 19), so seven or eight business days ago.

The activist's handpicked Supreme Court candidates were eventually selected by Trump and confirmed to the bench.Kellyanne Conway, former advisor to former President Donald Trump, speaks during the America First Agenda Summit, at the Marriott Marquis hotel on July 26, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer / Getty Images Explosive new reporting reveals that former senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway appears to have reached a business agreement with prominent conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo in 2017 - an agreement that apparently paid off in spades for the activist when Conway advocated for President Donald Trump to nominate Supreme Court justices backed by Leo.