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Merrick Garland: “There is a lot of special speculation around with the Justice Department is doing, what it is not, doing whatever…”

On the recordJuly 20, 2022
There is a lot of special speculation around with the Justice Department is doing, what it is not, doing whatever feelings are, what our feelings aren`t, and it will continue to be that speculation. That is because a central tenant of the way in which the Justice Department investigates, a central tenet to the rule of law, is that we do not do our investigations in public. This is the most wide ranging investigation, and the most important investigation, that the Justice Department has ever entered to. And we have done so because this effort to upend a legitimate election, transferring power from one administration to another, cuts of the fundamental of American democracy. We have to get this right.
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Merrick Garland
Democratic · District of Columbia
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Garland emphasizes the importance and seriousness of the DOJ's investigation into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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