Garland is appearing before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time in two years and at an unprecedented moment in the Justice Department’s history
, the first former president to face criminal charges, and another against the sitting president’s son, Hunter Biden.
But Garland will likely face tense and heated questions about the Trump and Hunter Biden criminal cases, forcing him to defend the country’s largest law enforcement agency at a time when political and physical threats against agents and their families are on the rise. “I’ll be using this opportunity to highlight just how destructive that is of our system of justice and how once again, it is the GOP willing to undermine our institutions in the defence of their indefensible candidate for president,” Rep. Adam Schiff, a senior Democrat on the committee, told the AP.launched an impeachment inquiry
Republicans contend that the Justice Department – both under Trump and now Biden – has failed to fully probe the allegations against the younger Biden, ranging from his work on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma to his tax filings in California and Washington D.C.
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