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Merrick Garland to make statement at 12:15 Eastern Live Thread

If I were a contract employee and scheduled a meeting with the board of directors to discuss my screwup, how long should the board wait after the promised time before letting that person go ? (obviously if it came out that the employee had a heart attack from myocarditis or had an urgent meeting with Hunter maybe we could be lenient If he proves he has a heart that is

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed on Thursday that federal agents had searched former President Donald Trump's Florida estate to probe whether he illegally removed records from the White House as he was leaving office. Garland said he had personally approved the decision to search Trump's home. He said the Justice Department had asked a court to unseal a search warrant filed as part of the investigation due to "substantial public interest."

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday he personally approved the search of Donald Trump's home this week and has filed a motion to unseal the warrant authorizing the raid of Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Garland made a brief statement Thursday, the first since the FBI's raid Monday. Garland said he personally approved the search of Trump's home and that the agency had probable cause. Trump posted on his platform, Truth Social, minutes after the press conference. "I continue to ask, what happened to the 33 Million pages of documents taken to Chicago by President Obama? The Fake News Media refuses to...

Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed Thursday that he “personally approved” requesting the search warrant that triggered Monday’s unprecedented raid on the Florida home of former President Donald Trump and revealed the Justice Department had asked a federal magistrate judge to unseal copies of the warrant — if Trump and his legal team do not object. “The Department filed the motion to make public the warrant and receipt in light of the former president’s public confirmation with the search, the surrounding circumstances, and the substantial public interest in this matter,” Garland told reporters. “Faithful adherence to the rule of law is...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-attorney-general-garland-gives-briefing-amid-questions-over-fbi-search-of-trump-home