Merrick Garland

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• SOURCE: Slate
  8/31/2022
  

  Legal Analysts: DOJ Filing Shows Garland Should Move Quickly to Indict Trump

  by Dennis Aftergut and Philip Allen Lacovara

  A narrow indictment focused on charges related to the improper keeping of documents, delivered immediately after the November midterms is the only chance to prosecute Trump between elections and strike a blow for accountability. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/22/2021
  

  The 150-Year Prosecution of White Supremacy

  Merrick Garland's answers to quesitons about domestic right-wing extremism show that he understands the through-line connecting post-Reconstruction racist terrorism, the 1990s militia movement, and the groups present at the US Capitol on January 6. It remains to be seen if he will have the support he needs to follow through on his pledge to prosecute them.

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• 9-25-16
  

  Senator Chuck Grassley Has Twice Sabotaged Merrick Garland’s Judicial Appointments

  by Dirk Langeveld

  The senator previously sought to abolish a judgeship to which Garland had been nominated. Could he do it again?

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  3-17-16
  

  Merrick Garland, religion, race and American identity

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  When Max Garland came to America, the Bureau of Immigration still classified Jews as a distinct race. And you couldn’t “choose” a different one, the argument went, any more than a leopard could change its spots.