Garland, at Confirmation Hearing, Vows to Fight Domestic Extremism
President Biden’s nominee for attorney general told the Senate Judiciary Committee that investigating the Capitol riot would be his first priority.
Judge Merrick B. Garland said he would restore independence to the Justice Department if confirmed as attorney general.Credit.Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
Feb. 22, 2021
WASHINGTON Judge Merrick B. Garland, President Biden’s nominee for attorney general, said on Monday that the threat from domestic extremism was greater today than at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and he pledged that if confirmed he would make the federal investigation into the Capitol riot his first priority.
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