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During a Tuesday gun control announcement, President Joe Biden asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to act where Congress has not and take the U.S. “as close as possible” to universal background checks.

Garland admitted that the DOJ has prosecuted more pro-life activists than pro-abortion extremists following the Dobbs decision.

Attorney General Merrick Garland would personally have to authorize any potential charges against Hunter Biden, he admitted Wednesday amid concerns that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department (DOJ) has been politicized under his leadership.

President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland says there are “diplomatic concerns” with treating and designating the Mexican drug dartels as “foreign terrorist organizations.”

Congressional leaders and top Intelligence committee members on Tuesday will receive a briefing about the classified documents found at the homes of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, and former Vice President Mike Pence, according to multiple reports.

Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) sent a February 8, 2023, letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland making it clear that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosive’s (ATF’s) pistol brace rule will not be enforced in Montana.

Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is spearheading an investigation into former President Donald Trump, reportedly subpoenaed former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday. 

The FBI searched the Penn Biden Center in mid-November after President Joe Biden’s attorneys found documents with classified markings at the think tank earlier that month, according to a report published Tuesday by CBS.

The Justice Department informed House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Monday that it could not fulfill all of their requests relating to the investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, citing the department’s “longstanding policy” about ongoing matters.

Pro-life activist and Catholic father of seven Mark Houck was found not guilty on Monday on federal assault charges brought by Biden’s DOJ.

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has finally deigned to acknowledge the depth and scope of the scandal surrounding President Joe Biden’s misuse of classified documents, using its latest outing not to take issue with the occupant of the White House but instead laugh at Attorney General Merrick Garland by association.

Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) said Tuesday on NBC News’ “Meet The Press NOW” that Attorney General Merrick Garland should appoint a special counsel to investigate the discovery of classified documents in former Vice President Mike Pence’s home.

Attorney General Merrick Garland, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, claimed on Monday his department has not applied a double standard of justice to President Joe Biden’s classified document scandal after reportedly agreeing with Biden’s personal lawyers to hide the scandal from the American people.

Senior Democrats are becoming increasingly dismayed by the endless revelations of classified documents being hoarded by President Joe Biden and the bungled responses from the White House on the issue.

The Department of Justice told the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on Friday “it may not always be possible” to comply with the committee’s investigative requests.

The White House and Justice Department reportedly agreed to hide Joe Biden’s classified document scandal from the American people until it leaked to the press, despite repeated claims of transparency.

Hunter Biden lived in his father’s house in Wilmington, Delaware—the house where classified documents have been found—at the same time foreign businessmen linked to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence were funneling millions to the Biden family.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Friday announced a new investigation into President Joe Biden’s classified document scandal in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. 

MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade said Thursday on “Chris Jansing Reports” that she believed former President Donald Trump is more likely to get criminally charged because Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed former U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert Hur as special counsel to oversee the investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.

Garland announced that former U.S. attorney from Maryland Robert Hur, appointed by former president Donald Trump, to investigate President Joe Biden.

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins said Wednesday on “The Lead” that a special counsel could be appointed to review President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents after another set was found Wednesday in an old office.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story” that Attorney General Merrick Garland should appoint a special counsel to review President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents after another set was found Wednesday at an old office.

Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel to investigate former President Trump, not President Biden, two weeks after Biden’s classified briefings and documents were discovered at the Penn Biden Center.

President Joe Biden said Tuesday he was surprised by the news that “boxes” of classified documents were discovered in an office he used after leaving the vice presidency, claiming ignorance of the existence of the materials.

Former President Donald Trump responded to the CBS News report claiming Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned a U.S. attorney to review roughly ten classified documents found in an office once used by President Joe Biden.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland honored the five Capitol Police officers on Thursday who, he said, died after defending the legislature from the January 6 riot in 2021 — though none were killed during the violence.

The $1.7 trillion omnibus bill will provide a larger budget for the Justice Department to prosecute January 6 prisoners, a House Appropriations Committee summary revealed Tuesday.

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reacted to the latest Twitter files release by saying Republicans plan to have both FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick

The Department of Education “immediately and permanently” dissolved its “National Parents and Families Engagement Council” after conservative organizations sued.

Most Americans believe the naming of a special counsel to probe into former President Donald Trump, which Attorney General Merrick Garland decided on last month, is likely politically motivated in nature, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found.

MSNBC political commentator and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday on “Morning Joe” that Attorney General Merrick Garland was a “quiet storm” building January 6 cases with “complete badass” special counsel Jack Smith.

MSNBC legal analyst Neal Katyal said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that the Oath Keepers’ conviction for seditious conspiracy in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot increases the likelihood former President Donald Trump will be prosecuted.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s speech about the Oath Keepers’ conviction for seditious conspiracy in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot was a direct message to former President Donald Trump and those who worked with him that the Department of Justice can prove sedition.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third senior ranking House Republican, ripped special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday for being a “compromised” member of President Joe Biden’s politicized Department of Justice.

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) said on Sunday that Special Counsel Jack Smith tried to find ways to target conservative organizations during the Obama era-IRS scandal. 

The wife of Jack Smith, the newly-appointed special counsel in the investigation into the documents former President Donald Trump brought to Mar-a-Lago at the culmination of his term, made political donations to President Joe Biden and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) throughout the years and helped produce the 2020 Michelle Obama documentary Becoming.