Merrick Garland’s Mealy-Mouthed Haverings Are an Affront to the Rule of Law

His strategy’s only logic is political — and that up only to a point.

AP/Susan Walsh
The U.S. attorney general, Merrick Garland, at the Justice Department August 11, 2022. AP/Susan Walsh

A week after the FBI visit to President Trump’s home at Palm Beach, Florida, scratching around to find an explanation for official conduct has enabled a few plausible scenarios to start to emerge. It is possible to concede that there is some merit in the righteous wailings of the more vociferous anti-Trump press that the 30 agents who swarmed the palatial club and residence were not conducting a “raid.”

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