What Merrick Garland should tell us
Opinion by Jennifer Rubin
Columnist
Jan. 17, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. EST
No Cabinet official will have bigger challenges than Merrick Garland, President-elect Joe Biden’s designee for attorney general. He faces not only policy issues, a racial justice imperative and the rise of violent white supremacists in America, but also a Justice Department whose reputation and morale are at low points.
Senators will have an opportunity to highlight those challenges and assess Garland’s priorities at his confirmation hearings. Here are some questions to get them started:
After the Watergate scandal, Attorneys General Edward H. Levi and Griffin Bell conducted extensive, high-level reviews of everything that went wrong and what policies were needed to prevent it from happening again. Will you be doing that in response to the Trump administration? If not, why?
What powers do you think the Justice Department inspector general should have?
Will you fire people or make referrals to state bar associations if you find they have violated department ethics rules or are guilty of serious professional misconduct?
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Now it's all accountability all the time.
I'd suggest though, that the next Secretary of State is also going to have one hell of a job rebuilding the work of foreign relations what with the way IQ45 politicized the department and offended so many "allies."
Tough work for all - be it can be done with good, new, smart leadership!
