The report Tuesday from The Washington Post that the Department of Justice’s insurrection investigation is focusing on the conduct of former President Donald Trump was important and reassuring, but it was not particularly surprising.
Attorney General Merrick Garland had repeatedly indicated that Trump would not get a pass. He reiterated the principle, with a hint of exasperation, in his news conference just last Wednesday. One reporter asked: “No person is above the law in this country — even a former president?” Garland replied: “Maybe I’ll say that again, no person is above the law in this country — I can’t say it more clearly than that.”
Garland is not immune from bureaucrat-speak or even platitudes, but he does not lie. And there was no mistaking the import of his words, notwithstanding the continued anxiety of those who despair that he is not moving fast enough.
