Justice Department faces biggest test in its history with election conspiracy case against Trump
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August 6, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Justice Department was announcing the highest-profile prosecution in its history in Washington, Attorney General Merrick Garland was 100 miles away, meeting with local police in Philadelphia.
He stepped outside briefly to speak about how the decision to indict Donald Trump for conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election came from career prosecutors and was led by a special counsel committed to "accountability and independence."
In other words, this wasn't about politics.
Try as Garland might, though, there is no escaping the politics of the moment when the Justice Depar...
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