Note From Elie: Merrick Garland Holds the Line
The Counsel
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.7 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:33.4 | Ellie here with my weekly note to the cafe community. |
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| 1:03.3 | When I worked at the New Jersey Attorney General's office, we once found ourselves in the middle of a media firestorm over a case involving a celebrity. |
| 1:08.2 | I can't say the name here, but suffice it to say, things were spinning out of control. The local media was whipped into a frenzy, |
| 1:14.7 | and all manner of misreporting was beginning to take hold and spread. |
| 1:18.7 | We held a series of internal meetings about how we might staunch the damage. |
| 1:24.0 | At one point, the AG even drafted a detailed op-ed that would set the record straight. For a moment, it felt like the right thing to do. |
| 1:27.0 | Run the piece, get everything |
| 1:28.2 | straightened out. But after a bit of reflection, we concluded, we can't do this. We simply don't |
| 1:34.0 | open up the books on pending criminal investigations just to calm a public firestorm. It's not |
| 1:39.8 | easy and it's not pleasant, but sometimes prosecutors have to just sit back and take it. |
| 1:45.2 | While I've never been in a seat quite as hot as the one that Attorney General Merrick Garland |
| 1:48.7 | occupies right now over the search of Maralago, I can empathize. He's under enormous |
| 1:53.6 | pressure, not only from Donald Trump, but also from prominent politicians, including some |
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