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Save this story for later. Steps away from the Attorney General’s office, in the Justice Department headquarters, in Washington, there is a ceremonial anteroom. The stately chamber is octagonal, and across the top of its walls are fifteen words in capital letters, carved in wood, with stars interspersed between them: “ THE UNITED STATES WINS ITS POINT WHENEVER JUSTICE IS DONE ITS CITIZENS IN THE COURTS.” The question of who coined the dictum is a mystery the leading theory is that it’s the work of an early twentieth-century Prussian-American Solicitor General but its meaning is clear. The duty of an Attorney General is to pursue the interests of the country’s citizens, not the personal vendettas of its politicians. Three months after taking office, Merrick Garland is finding that mission treacherous, thanks to a political, legal, and moral minefield left behind by the Trump Administration. Not since Watergate has an Attorney General faced such a collection of politically

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