Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department has “no higher priority” than bringing to justice those who were involved in last year's January 6th Capitol Hill riots.
in nearly all 50 states and the District of Columbia for their roles in the January 6 attack." Garland also stated that the department has charged over 300 people with felonies. Twenty of those charged with felonies have already pleaded guilty, Garland said.
"Over 40 years ago, in the wake of Watergate Scandal, the Justice Department concluded that the best way to ensure the department's independence, integrity, and fair application of our laws, and the best way to ensure the health of our democracy is to have a set of norms to govern our work," Garland said.
"The central norm is that in our criminal investigations there cannot be different rules depending on one's political party or affiliation," he added."There cannot be different rules for friends and foes and there cannot be different rules for the powerful and the powerless. There is only one rule."
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