Attorney General Merrick Garland repeatedly dodged whether he had sought an ethics review related to his controversial Justice Department school boards memo and his connections to his son-in-law’s left-wing education company.
The top Biden DOJ official strongly suggested on Wednesday he hadn’t sought such a review, though, as he argued before the Senate Judiciary Committee that there was no possible conflict of interest. Garland made the comments during robust questioning by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, and his dodging was similar to his evasions during last week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing when he repeatedly refused to say whether he had already submitted himself to an ethics review and repeatedly refused to commit to any future ethics review.
