Autopen Fan Fiction (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)

The House Oversight Committee voted 24 - 19 to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi in their Epstein files investigation.

US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro quietly closes an investigation into President Biden for his use of the autopen after failing to establish a case.

A longtime Justice Department employee has been arrested and charged in a child pornography case.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has rescinded former Attorney General Merrick Garland’s restrictions on no-knock warrants.
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-a36j9-2bc2190d

Why Ted Cruz's angry letter to Merrick Garland on AI safety is misguided

Artificial intelligence is helping spread dubious and even outright false claims on social media, empowering propagandists and misinformation peddlers in new ways. Experts in the field are now discussing ways to address that. That makes Texas Sen. Ted Cruz mad. 

Not about the propaganda. 

About the people trying to stop it...

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/ted-cruz-letter-merrick-garland-ai-safety-misguided-doj-rcna182903

Justice Department charges nearly 200 people in $2.7 billion health care fraud crackdown | CNN

Other cases announced by the Justice Department Thursday accused defendants of unlawfully distributing millions of Adderall pills that weren't medically necessary, establishing phony sober living homes that claimed to provide addiction treatment and other support to Native Americans, and illegally prescribing or distributing opioids...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/health-care-fraud-crackdown/index.html

Garland decries House GOP proposal to cut DOJ funding by $1 billion - The Washington Post

The attorney general said the funding plan could risk undermining progress in reducing violent crime nationwide...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/25/justice-house-republicans-garland-funding/

Judge Cannon asks about Attorney General Garland’s oversight of Trump trials - The Washington Post

The theory that Smith's appointment is unconstitutional is popular in some conservative legal circles. Cannon invited three outside lawyers — known as amici — to argue in court Friday. Two said Smith was unlawfully appointed and a third sided with the government. Similar challenges to other recent special counsels, including Robert S. Mueller III, have been rejected in court — a decision that Cannon referred to on Friday…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/21/trump-cannon-jack-smith-pretrial-hearing/

Republicans GETS BLASTED on House Floor as PLANS UNRAVEL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I7fxFWNEbQ

House Votes to Hold Garland in Contempt Over Biden Audio - The New York Times

Just one Republican, Representative David Joyce of Ohio, the leader of a mainstream G.O.P. group on Capitol Hill, voted "no." He said after the vote that as a former prosecutor he could not support a measure that would "further politicize our judicial system." 

Given the highly polarized nature of Congress in the modern era, contempt findings have become almost a rite of passage for attorneys general. Eric H. Holder Jr., a Democrat, was held in contempt in 2012; as was William P. Barr, a Republican, in 2019. 

Neither case was prosecuted by the Justice Department...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/us/politics/house-garland-attorney-general-biden-contempt.html

Adam Schiff Slams House Republicans for Anti-Justice Antics at Merrick Garland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_BA6VAtTBc

Biden moves could help shape political landscape in his favor - The Washington Post

Attorney General Merrick Garland asked Biden to exert privilege because the department feared providing the recordings to Congress could hurt future efforts to gain cooperation from administration officials, especially if they are asked to sit for recorded interviews. 

Garland's request was not without precedent; his predecessors in the Trump and Obama administrations also asked the president to exert executive privilege for investigative materials. 

House Republicans are seeking the recording of Biden's interview with special counsel Robert K. Hur, who concluded his investigation without filing any charges against Biden, arguing they needed it as part of their broader investigation into Biden and his family. But the White House argued their request was purely political, noting that the lawmakers had already received a written transcript of the interview...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/16/biden-executive-privilege-debates/

Harry Litman And George Conway (Al Franken podcast)

The Trump trials and the ug-ug-ugly Garland hearing...

Interview: 

https://www.alfranken.com/listen/harry-litman-and-george-conway

Watch Garland's response to GOP accusations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulE3JM-XbWc

Rep. Schiff Slams Republicans for Using Hearing with AG Merrick Garland As Trump Legal Defense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wziET8rhfY

Republicans demand answers from Garland on Covid relief fraud

Officials and experts say the worst of the fraud occurred during the Trump administration as the pandemic was unfolding, as a result of poorly designed relief programs whose rules were written both by executive branch officials and Republicans and Democrats in Congress...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-demand-answers-garland-covid-relief-fraud-rcna102298

Special counsel named in Hunter Biden case: Four things to know

Garland made the surprise announcement on Friday and was immediately met with Republican backlash and plenty of questions.

Here are four things to know in light of the announcement…

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4149686-special-counsel-hunter-biden-four-things-to-know/

WOW! Merick Garland DELIVERS SURPRISING & POWERFUL Message on TRUMP INDICTMENT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VN_43D8Vo

Texas Paul UTTERLY DESTROYS Republicans' Behavior during LIVE Hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHinTL-kFew 

Does DOJ have ‘anti-Catholic bias’? Josh Hawley presses Merrick Garland. - The Washington Post

The document — which in a footnote drew a distinction between traditionalist Catholics who are and aren't radicalized — said the radicalized ones also adhere to an "anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, and white supremacy" ideology. The memo said "legislative and judicial decisions in such areas as abortion rights" may be "catalyzing events" for right-wing extremism but that the FBI could mitigate the threat by recruiting sources within traditionalist Catholic parishes...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/06/does-doj-have-anti-catholic-bias-josh-hawley-presses-merrick-garland/

CRINGE: Republican FBI hearings INSTANTLY backfire, go horribly wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R4hxh8TPA4

Garland, Gupta attend violence interrupters conference in St. Louis - The Washington Post

In 2022, Congress approved the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which included new gun restrictions and $250 million over five years to be distributed by the Justice Department to community intervention programs. Congress also allocated $50 million to the Justice Department to support such programs in each of the last two budget cycles, when Democrats controlled the House. It is unclear if that funding will continue now that Republicans have a narrow majority...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/16/justice-violence-interrupters-garland/

Hive ransomware gang shut down by FBI, AG Merrick Garland says - The Washington Post

Garland, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray and their top deputies described the dismantling of Hive as a major victory in the government's efforts to fight ransomware with novel methods. Law enforcement was able to hack Hive and infiltrate its networks for seven months, officials said, stealing the decryption keys and quietly giving them to 336 victims before taking full control of Hive servers in the United States and Europe, knocking them offline and preventing new infections...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/26/hive-ransomware-fbi-doj/