Jim Jordan Questions Assertion From Merrick Garland That the DOJ Doesn’t Have Different Rules For Republicans and Democrats, ‘Really?’

U.S. House Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) today questioned an assertion that Attorney General Merrick Garland recently made to reporters.

During a press availability at Justice Department headquarters, Garland claimed, “We do not have different rules for Democrats or Republicans, different rules for the powerful or the powerless, different rules for the rich and for the poor, we apply the facts, and the law in each case in a neutral, non-partisan manner.”

“That is what we always do,” Garland insisted at the time. Jordan reported Garland’s comments in a tweet and asked, “Really?”

Merrick Garland says DOJ doesn’t have different rules for Democrats and Republicans.

Really?

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) January 25, 2023

Politico also noted that when asked if he had any regrets about the way the classified document situations involving Joe Biden and former president and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump had been handled thus far, Garland called the law enforcement decisions “appropriate” and unaffected by politics.

Flanked by a Justice Department task force handling the fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn the federal constitutional right to abortion, Garland declared, “That is what we’ve done and that is what we will continue to do.”

Jordan wondered in a tweet on Monday, “How many classified documents will they find at Joe Biden’s houses this week?”

Ten days ago, Jordan announced the first investigation as Chairman of the Judiciary, a probe into Joe Biden’s “mishandling” of classified documents.

The announcement came the day after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the matter as well.

Jordan sent a letter to Garland that said, “We are conducting oversight of the Justice Department’s actions with respect to former Vice President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, including the apparently unauthorized possession of classified material at a Washington, D.C. private office and in the garage of his Wilmington, Delaware residence.”

In response, Jordan was told in a letter from the Assistant AG, Carlos Uriarte, that “Consistent with longstanding policy and practice, any oversight requests must be weighed against the Department’s interests in protecting the integrity of its work.”

Jim Jordan Turns Up the Heat, Asks ‘How Many Classified Documents Will they Find at Joe Biden’s House This Week?’