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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

We have to distinguish between reporters doing their jobs and reporters committing crimes unrelated to the leaking.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

Sometimes we have crises that arise because the wrong people are responding.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

There will always be problems, but I am reasonably confident that we won't have a problem like that again.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

It is vital to the functioning of our democracy and that extends to the need for journalists to be able to go about their work disclosing wrongdoing in the Government.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

The idea is, as you eloquently put it, is to make sure that people who are in extreme risk, either to themselves or to their loved ones, have the guns taken away temporarily while the matter is adjudicated.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

One of the very first acts I took after becoming Attorney General was to ask for a 30 day review of this problem with respect to Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

As President Biden has made absolutely clear, we are not asking to defund the police.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

I don't want--I was about to say many. I want to say that. You know, we have a very good method of finding the additional people who are inside the Capitol.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

All of us are united by our commitment to the rule of law and to seeking equal justice under law.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

This is getting worse and worse, and we have to do everything we possibly can here. This is a very, very serious threat.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

You can't have a democracy with due process of law if judges are afraid to make the decisions.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

As we have a rise in domestic violent extremism, it is a serious threat.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

The administration's policy, and I believe to be the correct policy, is that prison is Government work.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

If they have been adjudicated to not be entitled to asylum, then they should be deported, yes.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

We want to alleviate that cause of a terrible tragedy by both protecting the gun owners' due process rights but protecting the potential community victims from the risk of death.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· Jun 8, 2021

Yes, so it certainly was an issue everywhere around the country.

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