‘So outrageous’: Garland fires back at GOP lawmaker’s question about religious discrimination

‘So outrageous’: Garland fires back at GOP lawmaker’s question about religious discrimination

During a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Merrick Garland pushed back against accusations that the Justice Department was improperly targeting Catholics because of their religious beliefs, an allegation that stems an FBI field office memo issued earlier this year that seemed to suggest the FBI was targeting “radical traditionalist Catholics,” which the DOJ and the FBI have disavowed.