Attorney General Merrick Garland has a REAL tough job….
Donald Trump and Bill Barr had four years to infest the US Dept of Justice…..
Garland will need time to change things….
And he WILL have problems due to the entanglement of Trump issues and politics and protecting the ‘Office of the President’……
How he charts his way through the current controversies and still-unresolved politically sensitive cases is likely to determine how much of a long-term impact the Trump presidency has on the Justice Department.
“It’s a difficult situation to navigate. The Department of Justice is an institution like an ocean liner — it doesn’t turn around easily,” said Ronald Weich, who served as an assistant attorney general in the early days of the Obama administration.
Within that big ship, there are thousands of career prosecutors and lawyers toiling away on a host of cases that have political implications. During the Trump era, current and former Justice Department lawyers decried what they saw as the politicization of legal decisions…
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