AG Merrick Garland Once Again Reminds Republicans Who He Works For

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Our job is not to take orders from the president, from Congress, or from anyone else, about who or what to criminally investigate.

I am not the president’s lawyer. I will add I am not Congress’s prosecutor. The Justice Department works for the American people.

— Attorney General Merrick Garland, in testimony given before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, as he decried Republican threats to defund the FBI, while at the same time pushing back against Republican criticism of the Justice Department for its indictments of former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.

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