The most unserious “news” theme is insisting the Justice Department has been independent and impartial under recent Democrat presidents, especially Joe Biden’s. After four years of Biden’s DOJ pursuing January 6 defendants and appointing a special counsel to put Trump in jail, the newfangled CBS Evening News on Friday began with a “Schoolhouse Rock”-style lecture about impartiality.
That’s right. CBS claimed to favor impartiality.
JOHN DICKERSON: If you check the Justice Department`s Web site, as we did today, you will find at the top of the mission statement the words “to uphold the rule of law.“
MAURICE DUBOIS: I’m Maurice DuBois. And on that same Web site, under the heading “Our Values,” you will see “independence and impartiality.”
DICKERSON: But after yet another federal prosecutor resigned in protest today, is the department, under the influence…
