No, Merrick Garland Did Not Let Donald Trump Skate

Within days of becoming attorney general, he assembled his deputies and told them to turn over every Trump rock. Blame a lumbering system—and an electorate that didn’t care.

by Harry Litman

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Some time in the next five days, Merrick Garland will step down as the nation’s eighty-sixth attorney general, bringing to a close one of the most distinguished careers in public service in the last century.

But the accounts of his departure will likely include widespread criticism that he slow-walked the prose…