Garland pushed back on the wave of conspiracy theories surrounding last week's historic criminal conviction of former President Donald Trump.
Attorney General Merrick Garland hit back at the House Republicans threatening to hold him in contempt of Congress.
Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies during the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled "Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice," in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, September 20, 2023."The Justice Department will not be intimidated. We will continue to do our jobs free from political influence. And we will not back down from defending our democracy," Garland said."That conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself," Garland said.
But Garland in his opening testimony Tuesday shot back that "certain members" of the Judiciary and Oversight Committees "are seeking contempt as a means of obtaining — for no legitimate purpose — sensitive law enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations." He pointed to recent congressional threats to defund the ongoing prosecution of Trump by special counsel Jack Smith, as well as "baseless and extremely dangerous falsehoods" being spread about the FBI.
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