Merrick Garland

After Garland's press conference — and reports that Trump may have taken nuclear documents — will the GOP shut up?

The attorney general was careful to say nothing more about the investigation than what the public already knew. Trump evidently had his own reasons, including a perceived fundraising opportunity, for making the search public and blaring out his grievance as a purported victim of government oppression. Here is where Garland turned the tables on Trump and seized the high moral ground. The current attorney general rose masterfully to the challenge on Thursday. He established that the department had proceeded by the book. Intruding on the residence of a former president is no small matter. Republicans had also mounted an unrelenting public pressure campaign to force Garland into a press conference justifying the search.

The right's spent the better part of the week trying to paint the attorney general as a despot. Those charges won't stick.

It wasn’t immediately clear what exactly the Department of Justice was looking for at Trump’s resort. None of these traits seemed to be particularly advantageous—until, perhaps, this week, when the unassuming figure signed off on a warrant for federal agents to search Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s post-presidential way station. One of the most compelling things about Merrick Garland is how fundamentally uncompelling he is.

If Trump is proven to have mishandled classified documents, he could be guilty of a felony. In 2018, then-President Trump signed a bill upgrading the crime from ...

Merrick Garland said the Justice Department has requested to make public the property receipt, detailing what agents found inside Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago ...

The Department of Justice has filed a motion to unseal the search warrant and that would place much more information in the public domain. Mr Garland added that the department has asked a court to make public the property receipt detailing what agents found inside the estate. Mr Trump said the nuclear weapons "issue" was a "hoax". Mr Garland has said he "personally approved" the warrant to search Mr Trump's Florida residence. The US Justice Department has asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the "substantial public interest in this matter". Donald Trump has called for the "immediate" release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate earlier this week.

The attorney general said he'd order a judge to unseal the search warrant, which former President Donald Trump had been free to release all along.

There is no clear timeline for when the warrant could be made public. Nonetheless, Trump went on to call for the "immediate" release of the warrant he already possessed. He also alluded to the fact that Trump had been in a position the whole time to release the warrant himself.

As sporting events go, nobody has enjoyed or participated in the years of Merrick-Garland-sucks/ Merrick-Garland-is-a-Warrior takes more than I have.

And none of it is to suggest that he won’t be perfectly disappointing in a whole lot of other contexts in the years to come. None of this is to detract from the AG’s leadership this week. This was and is a team effort; the result of Garland’s sometimes maddening promise to follow the facts wherever they may lead. What may be taking place now, as the DOJ investigates the former President with a minimum of fanfare, without leaks to favored press outlets, without rancor or fileting by sound byte is nothing less than a proof of concept: Restoring the Justice Department to its post-Watergate ideals and mission was never going to mean swapping out Bill Barr’s relentless blind partisanship for what felt like equal and opposite partisanship from Merrick Garland. Like many others I pinged crazily between admiration for his refusal to play politics with the Justice Department and incandescent fury at his refusal to play politics with the Justice Department. The former president must either accede to disclosing the materials sought in the search warrant, or he must risk having a judge release them.

The search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago lodgings gives his supporters fuel, and his detractors nervous sweats over what might or might not be found.

If the raid on Mar-a-Lago seems vaguely familiar, perhaps that's because Succession Season 3 featured a similar raid on the Waystar Royco office.

Now, fans are highlighting that life-imitating-art connection by playing the Succession theme music over a clip of Attorney General Merrick Garland's press conference about the raid. Merrick Garland presser hits better w/ the Succession music playing under it.— Jason Gallagher (@jga41agher) pic.twitter.com/rmwMkdT2Dw August 11, 2022 "Merrick Garland presser hits better w/ the Succession music playing under it," Tweeted journalist and podcast producer Jason Gallagher, who posted the original video.

Readers discuss the attorney general's decision to break his silence. Also: A student's plea on abortion rights; jobs and the economy.

We have the power to take back our rights. A great many employers have job openings that they are finding very difficult to fill. Anti-choice Republicans are pushing back and trying to strip women of their rights. About half the states will likely have extreme limits or total bans on abortion. Until recently a constitutional right in the United States, abortion now depends on geography. I, her only daughter, plan to go to college in 2025. He reportedly flushed down the toilet or otherwise destroyed some official papers, presumably containing incriminating information. For now, let’s be patient and let the Justice Department do its job. The investigation will continue and the rule of law will persevere. Like many other Americans, I’m curious to know more about the Justice Department’s investigation of Donald Trump, and I understand why Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced that he personally approved a search warrant and that the department has now requested its unsealing. The list of reasons for it to avoid extensive public comment at this stage is longer than the list of reasons for it to do the opposite. Although Mr. Garland’s language was at times opaque, his style was in keeping with his strong — and refreshingly nonpartisan — perspective that the department should place the rule of law above partisan politics.

There's been a new and dramatic twist in the saga of former President Donald Trump, Mar-a-Lago and the FBI.