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    28Mar, 2023
    Boxes of papers linked to Biden found in attorney’s Boston office

    Nine boxes of documents linked to President Joe Biden were recovered in Boston by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration at some point in recent months, according to a letter sent by the archives to lawmakers.The discovery is connected to the previous removal of a batch of documents found last year in the Washington office space of Biden’s former think tank. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to lead the investigation into documents found in that location and others associated with Biden. Sen. Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, requested information about the discovery of the records in Boston on Feb. 24 but the response from NARA indicates that it had to consult with the Department of Justice before responding. In the response letter, issued on Tuesday, Acting Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall explains that NARA learned of the existence of the boxes on Nov. 3, 2022, when the agency contacted the president’s personal counsel to arrange the collection of boxes from the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.At that time, Biden’s attorneys informed NARA that Biden’s former personal attorney, Pat Moore, had moved the boxes from the Penn Biden Center to his law firm in Boston. According to the letter, NARA does not know when the boxes were moved to Boston. Video below: Biden’s January remarks on classified documents The boxes were recovered on Nov. 9 and secured in the JFK Library, NARA’s closest facility. Wall’s letter says the agency has not reviewed the contents of the boxes found at Moore’s office and could not answer whether they contained any classified material.

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    Nine boxes of documents linked to President Joe Biden were recovered in Boston by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration at

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    27Jul, 2022
    ‘We pursue justice without fear or favor’
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    Attorney General Merrick GarlandChip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    • Attorney General Merrick Garland has not closed the door on possibly charging Trump over Jan. 6.

    • Garland told NBC News that Trump’s possible 2024 candidacy would not affect his decision.

    • Legal and political experts are mixed on whether they think Trump will be federally indicted.

    A 2024 Trump campaign would not necessarily protect the former president from federal charges in connection to the January 6 Capitol attack, US Attorney General Merrick Garland told NBC News this week.

    Garland made the remarks in an exclusive interview with anchor Lester Holt on “NBC Nightly News” in a segment scheduled to air in full on Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. ET.

    In an exchange from the interview shared early on social media, Holt pressed the attorney general on whether Donald Trump’s possible candidacy in the next presidential election would impact the Justice Department’s investigation into the insurrection.

    “Look, we pursue justice without fear or favor. We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding January 6, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable, that’s what we do,” Garland said. “We don’t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that.”

    When Holt pushed for more specificity, Garland doubled down.

    “I’ll say again, that we will hold accountable anyone who is criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer — legitimate, lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next.”

    Trump told his allies recently that part of the draw of holding the nation’s top seat again would be the legal immunity it provides, according to a Rolling Stone report published earlier this month.

    Garland’s comments come on the heels of eight public hearings full of bombshell witness testimony

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    4Jul, 2022
    Harvard law professor predicts indictment of Donald Trump is coming

    A Harvard law professor whose roster of former students includes President Joe Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, predicted that the Justice Department would seek to indict Donald Trump with criminal charges related to the January 6 attack on Congress.

    Laurence Tribe made the prediction on CNN on Saturday, speaking to host Wolf Blitzer, who asked the professor point-blank if he thought the DOJ was heading in that direction.

    “Merrick Garland is a friend and a former student of mine. He’s an honest man, he’s serious, he said he’d go to the top if that’s where the evidence points and that’s certainly where it’s pointing now,” Mr Tribe said on CNN.

    That prediction, while confident by itself, helps to illustrate the overall air of uncertainty in the legal and political worlds surrounding the issue of whether Mr Trump will truly face any consequences for January 6 or not. It’s a broad departure from what lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including those on the January 6 committee like Adam Schiff, have said; Mr Schiff publicly fretted a week ago that he saw “no indication” the Justice Department was pursuing Mr Trump at all.

    The agency has, meanwhile, charged hundreds of participants in the attack on Congress with various low-level offenses and sought varying degrees of punishment; a handful of far-right activists, including the leader of the Proud Boys, have been hit with more serious charges including seditious conspiracy.

    The January 6 committee over the past several weeks has laid out a case for Mr Trump to potentially be charged with crimes such as seditious conspiracy, as the members have proved that the White House was well aware of the likelihood of mass violence breaking out on January 6 and went through with their efforts to overturn the

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    4Jul, 2022
    Merrick Garland’s former law professor says he thinks the attorney general will indict Trump over January 6

    • A Harvard Law professor said he thinks Trump will be indicted by the Justice Department.

    • Laurence Tribe is the former professor of US Attorney General Merrick Garland.

    • “He said he’d go to the top if that’s where the evidence points and that’s certainly where it’s pointing now,” Tribe said.

    Laurence Tribe, a professor at Harvard Law School who taught Attorney General Merrick Garland, believes his former student will indict former President Donald Trump over the January 6 insurrection.

    Tribe made the prediction during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer days after explosive testimony was delivered during the House Select Committee’s latest January 6 hearing.

    Blitzer asked if, given the latest revelations and developments, Tribe thought the US Justice Department would indict Trump.

    “Well, I wish I knew, but Merrick Garland is a friend and a former student of mine. He’s an honest man,” Tribe began. “He said he’d go to the top if that’s where the evidence points and that’s certainly where it’s pointing now.”

    Tribe said some recent searches by federal agents, including the seizure of former Trump lawyer John Eastman’s phone, provide “strong evidence that the Justice Department is not stopping with the foot soldiers. It’s going to the generals, and the biggest general of all of course is Donald Trump.”

    “I do think the odds are he will be indicted,” Tribe said. After Blitzer pressed him on whether or not he thought Garland would bring the indictment against Trump, Tribe reiterated: “If I had to guess, that would be my guess.”

    The January 6 committee has said it has enough evidence to ask the Justice Department to indict Trump.

    Insider’s Camila DeChalus reported that the committee is likely gathering evidence to accuse Trump of charges that include conspiracy to defraud the government, obstructing an official

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