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In reply to the discussion: Public Notice: The wreckage Merrick Garland leaves behind [View all]Kid Berwyn
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In May 2021, the DOJ went to court to block the release of most of a Bill Barr memo that might have revealed how hard Barr worked to avoid charging Trump with obstruction of justice after the Mueller report. There, Garland was continuing work that had begun under Trump. But while it made sense that Barr would want to block the release of information revealing his role in helping Trump, it made no sense for Garland to want the same. The country had both a right and a need to learn everything possible about what happened during the first Trump presidency and led to a spasm of treasonous violence. Thats far more important than getting a generally favorable ruling on the DOJs right to sit on memos.