Acting on a mix of principle and caution, Justice Department officials under former President Joe Biden made a series of decisions that significantly delayed and ultimately may have hampered the federal criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, according to a new book.
The slow decision-making at the top of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department affected two major probes into Trump after he lost the White House in 2020: whether he illegally possessed and obstructed the retrieval of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence, and whether he conspired illegally to overturn the 2020 election.
“Liberals” just want to be right - or at least want to be seen as doing it in the right way. The Conservatives believe that the end justifies the means
The justice department is supposed to be independent for precisely this reason. I can appreciate Garland was trying to avoid partisanship and appear to be impartial. But he failed. Dismally. Both of these investigations should have been fast tracked and much more open to avoid any appearance of bias. That would, of course, lead to the problem of a fair trial….