Merrick Garland to face DOJ oversight grilling for first time from new Congress

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is to beryllium grilled for nan first clip by nan caller 118th Congress. 

Garland is group to look earlier nan Senate Judiciary Committee during a 10 a.m. proceeding Wednesday titled, "Oversight of nan Department of Justice." Few specifications person been revealed, but The Hill reported nan proceeding will apt characteristic questions astir probes into President Biden and erstwhile President Trump. 

The Justice Department is handling investigations into Biden, Trump and Trump’s erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence pursuing nan FBI’s find of classified documents astatine each 3 of their homes aliases offices. 

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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to look questioning Wednesday from nan Senate Judiciary Committee.  (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

After Trump’s announcement of a 2024 re-election bid, and amid speculation complete whether Biden, 80, will tally for a 2nd consecutive term, Garland appointed abstracted typical counsels to grip their probes. Special counsel Jack Smith is handling investigations into Trump complete nan classified documents arsenic good arsenic nan erstwhile president’s alleged engagement successful nan Jan. 6, 2021, riot astatine nan U.S. Capitol. 

Former President Trump is nether investigation by nan Department of Justice complete classified documents recovered astatine his Mar-a-Lago home.  (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The DOJ claims Pence and Biden are cooperating pinch its probes, while Trump allegedly is not. 

Senate Intelligence Committee members person expressed vexation pinch nan Biden management for not briefing them connected nan seized documents aliases providing a harm appraisal of nan materials found. The management based on they do not want to jeopardize nan typical counsel probes.

The Senate Judicairy Committee is group to ballot connected Charnelle Marie Bjelkengren's information to beryllium U.S. District Judge for nan Eastern District of Washington. (Reuters)

Additionally, nan Senate Judiciary Committee will ballot Thursday connected Biden’s information of Charnelle Bjelkengren to beryllium U.S. District Judge for nan Eastern District of Washington. During her confirmation proceeding past month, Bjelkengren, of nan Spokane County Superior Court, said she could not reply basal questions regarding knowledge of nan U.S. Constitution erstwhile asked by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La.

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"Is this nan caliber of ineligible master pinch which President Biden is filling nan national bench?" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., asked connected nan Senate level of nan Biden nominee. "For life appointments? Is nan barroom for merit and excellence really group this low?"