Investigators appear to be building a criminal case against the former president
AS BARACK OBAMA’S last nominee to the Supreme Court bench—cruelly blocked by Republican senators—Merrick Garland was a darling of the left. As Joe Biden’s attorney-general, he has been more of a disappointment. Cautious, inscrutable and deeply concerned to remove the Department of Justice from politics, Mr Garland is considered by many Democrats to be ducking the single great challenge of his tenure: holding Donald Trump to account for his effort to steal the 2020 election.
Many are unimpressed. “It is unprecedented for Congress to be so far out ahead of the Justice Department in a complex investigation,” said Adam Schiff, a member of the January 6th committee. Mr Biden is said to share his concern. According to the New York Times, the president has said privately that Mr Garland should “act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of January 6th.” The concern extends beyond partisan Democrats.
DoJ investigators under Thomas Windom, a federal prosecutor, are reported to be looking into the “fake elector” scheme, and the department’s inspector-general is meanwhile leading an investigation of Mr Eastman and Mr Clark. According to the New York Times the search warrant issued to Mr Clark “indicated that prosecutors are investigating [him] for charges that include conspiracy to obstruct the certification of the presidential election.
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