Merrick Garland’s Refusal To Protect Supreme Court Justices Endangers The Country

The responsibility for leaving conservative justices with hostile groups planted outside their doors rests with Merrick Garland. Michael Mukasey, the distinguished judge who became attorney general under George W. Bush, remarked in a public speech that this account of Garland’s was a transparent evasion: The Marshals’ Service, as he well knows, is under the governance of the attorney general. The responsibility for any willingness to leave conservative justices with hostile groups planted outside their doors rests with Garland.