Justice Department Intent on Avoiding Errors

New York Times: “Attorney General Merrick Garland is intent on avoiding even the slightest errors, which could taint the current investigation, provide Mr. Trump’s defenders with reasons to claim the inquiry was driven by animus, or undo his effort to rehabilitate the department’s reputation after the political warfare of the Trump years.”

“Mr. Garland never seriously considered focusing on Mr. Trump from the outset, as investigators had done earlier with Mr. Trump and with Mrs. Clinton during her email investigation, people close to him say. As a result, his investigators have taken a more methodical approach, carefully climbing up the chain of personnel behind the 2020 plan to name fake slates of Trump electors in battleground states that had been won by Joseph Biden.”

“That has now led them to Mr. Trump and his innermost circle: Justice Department lawyers are grilling witnesses directly about the actions of Mr. Trump and top advisers like his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.”