Merrick Garland

no one could look at the Justice Department budget... and think the Justice Department supports defunding the police.

The backlog is from the preceding years, not from the new administration.

100 percent have been offered vaccines.

Yes. Included in our request for the Executive Office of Immigration Review, $22.5 million would continue to support that Office's legal orientation program.

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

this is a target rich environment. There is a lot of that fraud that happened in the past that we are going to go after.

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

Voting is a fundamental element of our democracy.

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

How did Merrick Garland choose to deal with that misbehavior by the Trump Justice Department?

Every Republican controlled state in the country is now moving legislation. Some haven’t acted new laws already to rollback voting rights in ways that target voters of color.

There is that connection and I think that is pretty well known.

We ought to build up that fund further.

I think we need to get the backlog down.

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

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

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.

The Justice Department strongly supports efforts to further strengthen the Crime Victims Fund.

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

This is an extremely serious matter. People are entitled, obviously, to the greatest privacy with respect to their tax returns.

your concern about this is the same as our concern.

I have a personal commitment to that fund.

this is essential to the fight against violent crime and against gun violence.

Yes, and as I told you in our conversation, obvious to me, the problem that you point out.

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