Bannon January 6 probe referral puts Attorney General Merrick Garland in center of legal and political storm
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Attorney General Merrick Garland -- whose nomination was premised on insulating the Justice Department from politics -- faces a decision that puts him at the center of a partisan firestorm, with the House's coming request that the department pursue criminal contempt against Steve Bannon for his refusal to cooperate in lawmakers' insurrection probe.
It's a political hot potato that is perhaps unprecedented in US history: How to proceed against an ally of a former President who is accused of dodging a congressional committee investigating an insurrection.
Garland, a former judge on the influential federal DC appeals court, has been hailed by President Joe Biden as "one the most respected jurists of our time."
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