Merrick Garland Letting Steve Bannon Slide Is Setting a Dangerous Example

It has been more than two weeks since the House voted to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for defying a Congressional subpoena, but Attorney General Merrick Garland has yet to take any action against Donald Trump’s former top adviser—and evincing little urgency in doing so. “We evaluate these in the normal way we do,” Garland said in a press conference Monday, declining to say if a Bannon prosecution was imminent. That uncertainty could soon pose a problem for the House panel as it seeks to enforce additional subpoenas in its quickly escalating probe into the former president, his allies,… Read Full Article