Did Merrick Garland Break DOJ’s Election Interference Rules by Approving Jack Smith’s Tactics Against Trump?

The special counsel regulations allow the attorney general to enforce Department of Justice rules — will Merrick Garland do so?

AP/Susan Walsh
Attorney General Garland at the Department of Justice, August 11, 2022. AP/Susan Walsh

The publication of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s immunity opus 35 days before the election is throwing into sharp relief the possibility that Mr. Smith — and Attorney General Garland — violated the Department of Justice’s own prohibitions with respect to election interference. 

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