On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS, fill-in host News Hour congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins set the bar awfully high for Republicans before they were permitted to criticize the Biden Justice Department.
Desjardins brought up Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland (whom the House of Representatives recently voted to hold in contempt) and the apparently Earth-shattering news that he’d penned a defensive Washington Post op-ed calling Republican criticism of the Biden Justice Department “baseless, personal, and dangerous.”
As a Democrat, Garland is immediately presumed to be nonpartisan. Any Trump Attorney General was immediately presumed to be not just partisan, but a co-conspirator in the impending authoritarianism.
The very reason Garland was held in contempt was because his Justice Department has refused to comply with a…
