Why Americans Arose Against the Justice Department

The decision of Attorney General Garland to launch a criminal inquiry against a president seeking a second term could only be political — and the voters saw through it from the get go.

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Attorney General Garland at the Department of Justice, July 6, 2022. Bonnie Cash/pool via AP

Why was it so “stunning” — to use our headline word — for Jack Smith to dismiss the criminal cases he’s been pursuing against President Trump? The answer, in our view, is that the motions disclosed that Attorney General Garland knew when he launched the special prosecutor that Donald Trump was running for a second term. He knew it would be forbidden to go after a sitting president. Yet he plunged ahead — a decision that could only be political.

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