Don’t Fall for the Myth of Moderate Merrick Garland

Attorney General Merrick Garland convenes a Justice Department meeting in Washington on March 10, 2022. Kevin Lamarque/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

For years, we were subjected to hysteria over the idea that Donald Trump would politicize the very Justice Department that arguably led the bureaucracy’s war against him. Now, open criticism of the DOJ by the party genuinely in control of it has been deemed acceptable.