President Joe Biden won’t coerce Attorney General Merrick Garland into indicting former President Donald Trump for his alleged role in the January 6 Capitol riot. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre , when asked whether Garland should indict Trump, said that the administration would let him make the final decision, and that Biden would continue to support the work by the House panel investigating January 6. This comes even as Garland’s department is facing increasing pressure to prosecute Trump amid the ongoing hearings from the committee investigating the insurrection. “We agree all Americans should watch and remember the horrors of one of the darkest days in our history,” Jean-Pierre said of the hearings, with the first taking place last Thursday. “But this is up to the Department of Justice .” “The Department of Justice is independent. The president chose Attorney General Garland because of his loyalty to the law and our Constitution, and to restore the independence and integrity of the Justice Department,” she told the press on Monday. “That’s exactly what the attorney general is doing, so we leave it up to the Department of Justice.” The congressional hearings have once again thrusted the Justice Department’s lack of action… Read full this story
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