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Washington (AFP) - US Attorney General Merrick Garland denounced on Friday what he called a "deeply disturbing" spike in the number of threats being made against public officials in the United States. "These threats of violence are unacceptable," Garland told reporters on the eve of the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. "They threaten the fabric of our democracy," the top US law enforcement official said. The attorney general said there had been a "deeply disturbing ...
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Washington (AFP) - US Attorney General Merrick Garland denied Republican allegations Wednesday that he had protected Democratic President Joe Biden's son Hunter while the Justice department prosecutes former president Donald Trump. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan accused the US justice chief of helping to stall a long-running investigation of Hunter Biden, which Republicans claim, without evidence, could show the elder Biden improperly benefited financially from Hunter's overseas business dealings. Meanwhile, Jordan alleged, Garland was propelling the two federal prosecutions of...
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Washington (AFP) - US Attorney General Merrick Garland strongly denied Wednesday that politics steered his investigative decisions, pushing back on Republican allegations that he has "weaponized" the Justice Department against President Joe Biden's top rival Donald Trump. With a Garland-appointed special counsel, Jack Smith, now pursuing two criminal prosecutions of Trump, the justice chief said in prepared testimony for a House hearing that he was neither Biden's attorney nor Congress's prosecutor. "Our job is not to take orders from the president, from Congress, or from anyone else, about wh...
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Washington (AFP) - Filing criminal charges against Donald Trump would be a long and complex process ultimately requiring US Attorney General Merrick Garland to weigh the enormous legal and political implications of placing a former president on trial. The House committee that investigated the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters recommended Monday that Trump be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election won by Joe Biden. The bipartisan panel voted unanimously to refer Trump to the Justice Department for insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding...
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Washington (AFP) - Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, was denied a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court by Republicans in the Senate. He now faces a decision arguably every bit as weighty as anything he may have faced on the nation's highest court: the potential prosecution of a former president of the United States. The 69-year-old Garland personally approved the stunning August 8 FBI search of Donald Trump's Florida home and will have the final say on whether he is to be charged with any crimes. Such a move against a former president would be unprecedented -- Richard Nixon was pardoned ...
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Washington (AFP) - FBI agents seized records marked "top secret" during their search of former president Donald Trump's Florida estate, according to documents made public Friday in a probe that includes possible violations of the US Espionage Act. The search warrant and related materials, unsealed by a Florida judge, showed agents carted away a significant number of items from the raid, which ignited a political firestorm in an already bitterly divided country. The warrant, which was personally approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland, authorized the FBI to search the "45 office" -- a refe...
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Washington (AFP) - US Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday he had "personally approved" the dramatic raid on Donald Trump's Florida estate and, in a highly unusual move, was requesting the warrant justifying the search be made public. The country's top prosecutor did not reveal the reason for the unprecedented search of the home of a former US president, and condemned "unfounded attacks" on the FBI and the Justice Department that followed it. "I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant," Garland told reporters in his first public statement since Monday's raid. "The d...
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Washington (AFP) - US Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday he would back efforts by lawmakers to allow proceeds from assets seized from Russian oligarchs to go "directly" to war-torn Ukraine. "The first thing we have to do is freeze the assets... But we would support legislation that would allow some of that money to go directly to Ukraine," he told a Senate panel during a hearing discussing his department's budget. Garland, the country's most senior law enforcement official, set out his position as he was being quizzed by senators about how his officials handle proceeds from recovere...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Senate Judiciary Committee gave its approval Monday to President Joe Biden's pick to be attorney general, Merrick Garland. The panel voted 15 to seven in support of the respected Washington appeals court judge, whose nomination to the Supreme Court in 2016 was frozen by Republicans seeking to install a conservative to a vacant seat. The votes by several Republicans in Garland's favor virtually guaranteed that his nomination to lead the Justice Department would be approved by the Senate, which is evenly divided 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans. "I plan to vote f...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the US Justice Department said Monday that fighting domestic extremism would be his 'first priority' if confirmed as attorney general. Appeals court judge Merrick Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee that far-right extremism today was worse than when he investigated the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City that left 168 dead. He said there was a direct line between that attack and the January 6 assault on the US Capitol by extremist supporters of former president Donald Trump. "This was the most heinous attack on th...
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