Why Did Merrick Garland Make That Speech?

Attorney General Merrick Garland made an unscheduled speech Thursday in which he said it is not only wrong to criticize his Justice Department for executing the blatantly obvious two-tiered system of justice it is enforcing today, but dangerous.

“Our norms are a promise that we will not allow this department to be used as a political weapon, and our norms are a promise that we will not allow this nation to become a country where law enforcement is treated as an apparatus of politics,” Garland said.

Former federal prosecutor Jim Trusty was not impressed, calling the AG’s claims to impartiality after his prosecutors have hounded former President Donald Trump over an array of trumped-up charges for three years and thrown peaceful Jan. 6 protesters into federal prison for long-term sentences “a little late.”

“I've never seen anything like the press conference [Garland] had right after Mar-a-Lago or a prosecutor pushing for a speedy trial in a complex case where the defendant is not incarcerated,” Trusty said. “It made no sense other than politics. For him to wax eloquent about ‘we will never be politicized,’ well, explain your own actions.”