Sen. Cruz and Senate Judiciary Republicans grill Attorney General Merrick Garland
Attorney General Merrick Garland
March 1, 2023 | Washington, D.C.
Attorney General Merrick Garland came before the Senate Judiciary Committee today to answer questions under oath about the weaponized Department of Justice (DOJ).
“He didn’t like my questions and I didn’t like his answers at all,” said Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
Cruz asked, "Why do you send two dozen agents in body armor to arrest a sidewalk counselor who happens to be pro-life, but you don't devote resources to prosecute people who are violently fire-bombing crisis pregnancy centers?"
Garland said he didn’t know (“the decisions about how to do tactical arrests are made by FBI agents in the field...”) and denied any political bias at the DOJ.
Cruz and other Senate Judiciary Republicans allege that the serious political bias and outright misconduct seen at the DOJ and FBI under Garland’s leadership is far worse than one or two incidents or arrests, and that the entire DOJ has been weaponized against patriotic Americans and conservative citizens across this country.
Additional allegations against the FBI
Cruz and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers about allegations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was secretly surveilling recent meetings of the pro-life group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU).
In the letter, Cruz and Roy wrote:
“Allegations that the FBI is spying on pro-life gatherings in tandem with the rise in high-profile FBI investigations into pro-life Americans raise well-founded concerns for millions of Americans. The American people deserve the truth – are their tax dollars and federal law enforcement agencies being used to spy on pro-life Americans?”
Read the full text of the letter here.
Cruz and Roy requested a response to questions in the letter by March 8.