Merrick Garland: “Each of us has a moral obligation to stand up, speak up and speak out. Democracy is not a state. It is an act.”

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

How those inflammatory claims stand up against the actual facts.

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

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