Merrick Garland: “It is a serious thing for a whole police department, particularly a whole police department in a big city like…”

The obligation of the Justice Department is to protect the American people against violence and threats of violence and that particularly includes public officials.

You have worked to pursue justice, not politics.

I'll say what I said, which is that the cases were brought last year, prosecutor has urged speedy trials with which I agree, and this now in the hands of the traditional system, not in our hands.

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