Garland will now oversee the Justice Department’s efforts to untangle and resolve the many legal messes that Trump left behind. He’ll also take over a Justice Department that saw a dip in morale among career employees under Trump.
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Garland spoke last month about the need to “protect the independence of the Department from partisan influence.” As a judge, he did not have a reputation as an ideological warrior. He generally sided with the court’s more liberal-leaning judges in politically divisive cases, although reviews of his record while his Supreme Court nomination was pending in 2016 found he tended to lean more conservative and side with law enforcement in appeals that involved criminal cases.
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