.thereidout Blog: Rep. Gallego is fed up with Attorney General Garland and the Justice Department's slow-moving investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“I think Merrick Garland has been extremely weak, and I think there should be a lot more of the organizers of Jan. 6 that should be arrested by now,” the Arizona Democrat, told CNN on Tuesday.
He said Garland’s failure to decisively move forward with a Jan. 6 investigation is posing issues in determining whether and who among former President Donald Trump's associates may have committed crimes through their potential involvement in the insurrection. “This is why we should have an active attorney general that can separate those that were doing political work from actual work helping the insurrection,” Gallego said.
“The problem that we have now is that we have a very obstructionist Republican Party that should be part of helping us decide how to save democracy, instead of trying to cover up for their crimes,” he continued. “And you have, again, an attorney general who is feckless and has not been helpful in terms of preserving our democracy.”— and even federal judges — have criticized Garland’s Justice Department“No wonder parts of the public in the U.S. are confused about whether what happened on Jan.
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