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Merrick Garland

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Merrick Brian Garland is an American attorney and jurist currently serving as the 86th Attorney General of the United States, a position he has held since March 11, 2021. Prior to his appointment as Attorney General, Garland served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2013 to 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party and has been involved in significant legal and judicial matters throughout his career.

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Feb 11, 2025

You have worked to pursue justice, not politics.

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Jun 3, 2024

That conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself.

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Jun 3, 2024

I will not be intimidated and the Justice Department will not be intimidated.

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Jun 3, 2024

How those inflammatory claims stand up against the actual facts.

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Jun 3, 2024

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act has been extraordinarily helpful in our effort to combat gun violence.

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Jun 3, 2024

I will not be intimidated, and the Justice Department will not be intimidated.

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Jun 3, 2024

These repeated attacks on the Justice Department are unprecedented and they are unfounded.

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May 25, 2024

If you threaten to harm or kill an election worker, volunteer, or official, the Justice Department will find you.

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Apr 10, 2024

People want to work, and put yourself in the shoes of a 42-year-old woman who's just been a retail clerk her whole career or a waitress and got put out of work in COVID.

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Apr 10, 2024

There's something special about manufacturing jobs. They're high paying. They don't require a college degree.

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Apr 10, 2024

It's a great program that you created and authorized. We have 400 applications worth about $2 billion.

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Apr 10, 2024

We do think that the Baltimore Police Department has made substantial progress towards satisfying the key provisions of the consent decree.

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Apr 10, 2024

The Justice Department is in favor of the Antitrust Division getting the full access to the fees.

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Apr 10, 2024

I will ask my staff to get back to you on which of the grant programs go to the program you are talking about.

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Apr 10, 2024

The purpose is to prevent guns from being sold to prohibited persons without a background check.

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Apr 10, 2024

The purpose of the new rule is to implement the definitional change brought by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

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Apr 10, 2024

I would say that there is always more applications than we have money to give out.

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Apr 10, 2024

Our strategy here is to develop trust within communities before something bad happens.

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Apr 10, 2024

I think the money we have in the budget is sufficient for those kind of reachout programs, but we won't be satisfied until all the crimes are reported.

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Apr 10, 2024

Well, if you put me in that exact box, the answer has to be yes.

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Apr 10, 2024

We're investigating that. We're investigating. We have a criminal investigation in connection with the deaths and kidnapping of Americans in Israel on October 7, yes.

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Apr 10, 2024

This was, in addition, of course, to the killing of Americans, this is the largest mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust.

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