#justice-department-independence

#justice-department-independence

The first problem with this argument is that the Biden administration did not politicize law enforcement-in fact, it went out of its way to avoid doing so. Biden put the Justice Department in the hands of Merrick Garland, a widely respected figure who had bipartisan support and who pledged to operate independently, and who followed through on that pledge by appointing a special counsel to insulate the federal Trump investigations from political influence.