Biden’s Justice Dept. is targeting problem policing, voting rights issues and more — drawing liberal praise and conservative ire.
“He made it clear that this was unacceptable, and that his Justice Department is broadly committed to taking actions to stop the spread of extremism,” Greenblatt said. “This has been an issue for him in a way that’s not just professional but clearly personal.”
Garland has spoken often about how his family’s history of religious persecution — his grandmother immigrated to the United States to escape the Holocaust, during which two of her siblings were killed — motivated him to pursue a law enforcement career. In his conference room, where the walls are adorned with oil paintings of past attorneys general, including Robert F. Kennedy, he recalled watching news coverage of the mass social justice protests in 2020, while he was still a federal judge.
The outcry helped persuade him to explore a potential return to government service, he said, after nearly a quarter-century on the bench. “I’m seeing people die — Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, all of whom are clearly having their constitutional rights violated right in front of everybody — and I’m sitting as a passive judge, which is the job of a judge,” Garland said, referring to three Black people whose killings sparked the protests. “It’s the pandemic, so I’m doing this mostly from my attic. And I just feel like, if you see injustice, you should do something about it.
Among Garland’s first major actions was to launch sweeping “pattern or practice” investigations into police departments in
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