Ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to look into whether any state officials, who are subjected to the Justice Department’s CCP virus nursing home probe, had engaged in obstruction of justice. Grassley, who was joined by five other Republican senators, wrote to Garland on Monday asking him to expand a DOJ inquiry into four states that came under widespread scrutiny for their response last year to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of nursing home residents. The states—New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan—had issued orders that required nursing homes to “admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing,” the department said in August 2020. The DOJ requested data from the four states to assess whether to launch civil rights investigations to determine whether the state orders are responsible …