Tim Scott is focusing his presidential campaign on targeting Attorney General Merrick Garland. His tactics might be more effective if they made more sense.
As campaign promises go, this is a little odd. Garland is, after all, a political appointee. A Democratic president — in this case, Joe Biden — took office in 2021 and chose officials for his White House cabinet, tapping the attorney general to lead the Department of Justice.
If Biden were to lose his re-election bid in 2024, there’d be no reason for the new Republican president to put firing Garland at the top of his or her to-do list, because the attorney general wouldn’t still be in office on Inauguration Day. Scott, who’s been in Congress for more than 12 years, almost certainly knows this.
It’s unfortunate that this false claim lingers, and its repetition doesn’t make it any less wrong. As USA TodayThis is false and mischaracterizes an exchange starting with a September 2021 letter written to Attorney General Merrick Garland by an education group asking the federal government to help with threats of violence against school officials. The letter from the National School Boards Association claimed that some of those threats “could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism.
As for the senator’s insistence that Americans “keep seeing ... the weaponization of the Department of Justice against political opponents,” there’s still literally zero evidence to support Scott’s claim. Even Alberto Gonzales, George W. Bush’s former attorney general, has urged Republicans
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