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Merrick Garland

  • 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.

  • 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.