Republicans subject attorney general Merrick Garland to a rough day in the Senate.

Joe Biden heads to an international climate summit.

And the State Department says people of no gender can now get their passports stamped X.

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Eric Holder type. He was going to be a non-partisan unifying figure. That's why he was picked. Remember,

some of the alternatives that Joe Biden had been looking at were far more radical publicly facing

than Merrick Garland was for Attorney General. There had been talking about Doug Jones from Alabama

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They'd been talk about bringing back some of the Obama holdovers. Instead, Joe Biden picked Merrick Garland specifically because Merrick Garland was supposed to not be a political hack. Why'd be respected? Almost made the Supreme Court. Instead, it turns out that pretty much every left-minded judicial appointee, if given the power of the

attorney general, would turn into Merrick Garland. This seems to be the case. So Merrick Garland

has been a very highly political attorney general. And he was called in front of the Senate

yesterday to talk about how the DOJ was targeting parents. Because remember, the DOJ put out an entire memo talking about how they were going to

essentially sick the FBI on parents who had questions about how school boards were running.

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