Attorney General Merrick Garland quietly extended a Department of Justice policy requiring prosecutors to pre-clear with him any investigations into presidential candidates and their staffers.
The policy, created in February 2020 by then-Attorney General William Barr, was quietly extended two months ago in a memorandum sent to DOJ employees.
On MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, host Rachel Maddow shared the document with viewers.
In a memo from May 25 on “election year sensitivities,” Garland directed DOJ employees to abide by a Trump administration era policy of “protecting the integrity of our elections.” Garland wrote:
Department of Justice employees are entrusted with the authority to enforce the laws of the United States and with the responsibility to do so in a neutral and impartial manner.
This is particularly important in an election year. Now that the 2022 election season is upon us, and as in prior election cycles, I am issuing this memorandum to remind you of the Department’s existing policies with respect to political activities.
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“That’s kind of a surprise,” Maddow later said of Garland extending the policy. “That was established by Bill Barr – when he was working for Donald Trump.”
And this is ignored by the House Jan 6th Committee because???
(because that are political jacks)
“…any investigations into Democratic presidential candidates and their staffers.”
FYFY
You attack me. For ridiculing. Your pedestal licking. Of lesbians and pædotrannies. In Judeo-Xrist’s name.
And I should care… why?