Merrick Garland corrupted the Justice Department with political persecutions

As what’s left of the Biden administration winds down, I’d like to offer an end-of-days reminder: Joe Biden wasn’t just a terrible president. His Attorney General Merrick Garland was an equally terrible leader of the Department of Justice.Garland, you may recall, was nominated for the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly a few months before the 2016 election. Republicans sat on Garland’s nomination, maintaining that the seat should be filled by a new president.We were told that this was hideously unfair and partisan, especially because, as the Obama administration and its friendly media repeatedly assured us, Garland was a moderate, a nonpartisan straight shooter, a person with a first-rate judicial temperament: honest, just, fair and wise.What a crock that was.Garland didn’t get the seat, which wound up being filled by Neil Gorsuch.  Four years later, when Joe Biden came into the Oval Office after Donald Trump’s (first) term, he nominated Garland to be his attorney general. Consolation prize? Perhaps.But Garland went on to spend his entire time as AG demonstrating to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear that he is anything but honest, just, fair and wise.Let me be clear (to use an Obama phrase): Garland has been a dishonest, unfair, partisan hack.  And none too wise, either.As Sen.Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told the AG in hearings about the FBI’s war on political opponents, “Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court.”Those hearings involved Garland’s inexplicable decision to hurl federal law-enforcement resources at parents who spoke against critical race theory and unpopular transgender policies at school-board meetings.In response to a letter from the left-leaning National School Boards Association, which described those meetings with lurid language but scant evidence of any real threats, Garland ordered the FBI and the Department of Justice into action against these “domestic ter...