“Is Garland a figurehead as well, with permanent DOJ staff really making the decisions and running the department?”
Schumer said who’s running the country, explicitly and right out in the open, but nobody seems to have heard him. Remember, this is the senior democrat in the U.S. Senate:
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.”
and he’s not ashamed to admit he’s afraid of the intelligence agencies.
The DOJ is not one of the intelligence agencies. I suspect the DOJ, EPA, and IRS fiercely protect their turf from the intelligence agencies.