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Does the justice department going under merrick garland? i will tell you, its the job i think i would least like to have in the whole federal government right now. if you give me my pick of jobs in the biden administration, my first choice would be that i dont want the job. my last choice would be i want to be the attorney general coming in to clean up the justice department after what just happened there in the previous president. i mean, being attorney general after trump as a job for which yo...

And he nominated merrick garland to be attorney general of the united states which was a great honor and a huge responsibility and what do you know? merrick garland was confirmed to be attorney general quite easily. they didnt have any substantive objections to him at all and so there is the same sort of justice to that as seeing judge julian neil being confirmed today right? not forgetting. not letting that shameful treatment of that nominee by the republicans in the senate in the past, not let...

The justice department itself, apparently theyre not investigating this. apparently, theyre just letting that slide, not looking into it. just, i guess, planning to do better and not make those same mistakes again, hope that the trump era behavior that happened inside the justice department, what? just hope that it gets forgotten and doesnt get cited as precedent before some future corrupt president in terms of how he expects his justice department to act on his behalf? if the trump doj did it a...

Just like william barr did during the trump years. even more recently than that, just in the past week weve learned disturbing details about justice department officials during the trump administration entertaining demand from the trump white house that they should start investigations into trumps weird pet causes including some of the cookie is, most bananas conspiracy theories about the 2020 election somehow being stolen from trump. the new york times reporting that the white house chief of st...

Again, that sort of action, taking it in secret, not notifying the news organizations of what they were after, that would seem to be a very clear violation of justice department policy, as former attorney general eric holder explained to us here last night in our interview with him. very clear justice department policies that are on a serious issue. that is justice department officials breaking justice department policy, misbehaving in serious and substantive ways. what do you do about that? wha...

>> have i explained everything accurate here? >> yes, i think you did. merrick garland came into this job with a mission of restoring the independence of the justice department and a commitment to be nonpartisan in all his decisions. i think maybe hes overcorrected. he reminds me of the dad who coaches his own child in little league, and out of an abundance to show how fair he is, benches his own kid, even though he is the best player. nobody knows how fair you are in you lose the game. >> on th...

Overcorrected. he remines me of the dad who coaches his own child in little league and out of an abundance to show how fair he is benchs his own kid. i remember this was a shock in the news-reading public, when the justice department made this decision they told the court this defamation case against trump cannot go forward. he was acting in his official capacity as president when he said these defamatory, crude, untrue things about e. jean carroll, and therefore its the u.s. government that you...

Merrick garland. hes running the justice department under joe biden. and aside from that sort of poetry about how he got the job, how is the justice department going under merrick garland? i will tell you, its the job i think i would least like to have in the whole federal government right now. like if you could give me my pick of jobs in the biden administration, my first choice would be i dont want the job. my last choice would be, i want to be the attorney general coming in to clean up the ju...

Their career. symbolism has sort of a small j justice to it. in practical terms, the result of that is that the attorney general of the united states is merrick garland. hes running the justice department under joe biden. and aside from that sort of poetry about how he got the job, how is the justice department going under merrick garland? i will tell you, its the job i think i would least like to have in the whole federal government right now. like if you could give me my pick of jobs in the bi...

Tick-freaking-tock, democrats. thats one takeaway. but the other part of the story here, you know, somebody has finally done right by judge julien neals. the republicans did leave him dangling, and that could have been the end of it. but president biden remembered he had been a good nominee. they didnt let the republicans have the last word in terms of the way they treated him. biden renominated him and they got him through. so there. late is better than never. they didnt forget him. and thats s...