House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) accused the Department of Justice of 'unequal application of the law' during his opening remarks at a hearing Wednesday, setting the stage for a contentious afternoon as lawmakers confront Attorney General Merrick Garland.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan accused the Department of Justice of"unequal application of the law" during his opening remarks at a hearing Wednesday, setting the stage for a contentious afternoon as lawmakers confront Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Jordan pointed to a now-failed plea deal between special counsel Weiss and Hunter Biden, noting that a federal judge who raised issues with the plea deal found the deal to be abnormally broad.Garland in his opening remarks made one of his first and most direct objections to Republicans' accusations, saying,"Our job is to help keep our country safe. ... There is not one set of laws for the powerful and one for the powerless.
Republicans immediately began their line of questioning at the hearing by broaching the topic of the Hunter Biden investigation, and Garland, as he and the department of done in the past, indicated that he could not reveal non-public information about an ongoing investigation. Jordan, a fervent Trump supporter, also defended the former president's handling of classified documents and noted that, according to an FBI agent's testimony, the search the FBI conducted of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence last year was a"complete departure from standard protocol."
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