Attorney General Merrick Garland, head of the Department of Justice (DOJ), is scheduled to testify before lawmakers of the 118th Congress for the first time on March 1.
Judiciary Committee Chairman and Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced that Garland will testify at 10 a.m. ET at a Senate hearing titled “Oversight of the Department of Justice.” Durbin will preside over the hearing. The hearing’s live stream will be available for the public to view here.
Republicans sitting on the Judiciary Committee will likely rain down scrutiny on Garland.
Potential questions include Garland’s oversight of investigations of parents who attend school board meetings, the FBI’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, the FBI’s prosecution of pro-life activists under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, and the FBI’s raids on the Mar-a-Lago property of former President Donald Trump, home of former VP Mike Pence, and President Joe Biden’s Delaware beach house. Republicans allege that some of the DOJ’s actions are acts of government weaponization….