NYT: Biden’s vow to allow the Justice Department to operate free from political pressure will soon be tested (Hunter)

NYT ^ | March 10 | By Katie Benner

[RandFan]

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s nominees to fill out the Justice Department’s leadership ranks pledged at their confirmation hearing on Tuesday to tackle domestic extremism, racial inequality and other thorny issues within the bounds of the law, seeking to restore order to a department battered by political attacks during the Trump administration.

Lisa Monaco, a Justice Department veteran and national security expert nominated to be deputy attorney general, and Vanita Gupta, a civil rights lawyer known for her criminal justice overhaul work tapped as the department’s No. 3, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that they were committed to ensuring that the department meted out equal justice under the law.

They also praised the 115,000 employees of the Justice Department for carrying out their work fairly and impartially — comments that stood in contrast to accusations by former President Donald J. Trump and former Attorney General William P. Barr that career employees could not be trusted to uphold the rule of law.

Mr. Biden’s vow to allow the department to operate free from political pressure will soon be tested in cases that Ms. Monaco would oversee. The U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware is investigating Mr. Biden’s son Hunter on suspicion of federal tax fraud, and the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis is carrying out a civil rights investigation into the death of George Floyd, the Black man whose death last year after a police officer knelt on his neck set off nationwide protests.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Nobody, I hope, believed it in the first place."

The possibility of a non-partisan DOJ is laughable under any modern Democrat administration, and especially the Biden administration. Biden's promise to "depoliticize" the DOJ was yet another bit of gaslighting, since the implication is that it was Trump who politicized it in the first place.

But Trump fought a losing battle to DEPOLITICIZE it, and Biden was just saying that it's now back to business as usual. We already saw this with the dropping of charges against many BLM rioters, even as the DOJ and FBI aggressively pursue anyone who was near the Capitol on January 6th.

[katie didit]

It’s almost like President Trump was “ just a bump in the road” for these criminals.

[sergeantdave]

Wait until the fascist justice department issues a command and nobody carries it out.

The leftist weenies won’t know what to do.