ANALYSIS/OPINION:
With a potentially bruising Department of Justice confirmation battle looming, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris now vigorously deny that they would ever direct their attorney general to do their political bidding or target specific opponents.
This would be unremarkable, had they not promised the opposite with equal vigor and disturbing specificity during the 2020 campaign.
CNN reports Mr. Biden saying in an interview, “‘I’m not going to be telling them what they have to do and don’t have to do. I’m not going to be saying, ‘Go prosecute A, B or C.’ I’m not going to be telling them. That’s not the role. It’s not my Justice Department, it’s the people’s Justice Department’. … Harris echoed the sentiment of Mr. Biden’s remarks on the Department of Justice. ‘We will not tell the Justice Department how to do its job,’ Ms. Harris said.”