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The Counsel

The DOJ Returns

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Third Degree, Elie Honig discusses Attorney General Nominee Merrick Garland’s Senate confirmation hearings and a return to normalcy for the Department of Justice. Tune in with Elie every Friday on Third Degree for a conversation with a rotating slate of America’s most impressive law school students.  Elie’s analysis doesn’t end with Third Degree.Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring articles by Elie, a weekly roundup of politically charged legal news, and historical lookbacks that help inform our current political challenges: cafe.com/article/the-stay-tuned-newsletter/ Transcript, references and supplemental materials are available on the CAFE website: https://cafe.com/third-degree-podcast/the-doj-returns/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From Cafe, this is third degree.

0:32.9

I'm Ellie Honig.

0:33.9

I'm Ellie Honig.

0:44.7

Yeah. What a difference in What a difference in administration makes.

0:46.8

After four years of outrageous, unapologetic, relentless exploitation and degradation of the United States Department of Justice by President

0:54.8

Donald Trump, aided, abetted, and prodded along in particular over the last two years by his

1:00.1

top henchman, Bill Barr. It seems finally the Justice Department is back, or at least on its way

1:07.7

back, back to basics, back to fundamentals, back to those norms, the rules,

1:12.5

the written and unwritten rules that make DOJ unique within our government as this independent

1:17.6

force for truth and, well, justice. See, DOJ is different. It's been said before, I didn't invent

1:23.6

this, but it's the only agency named for an ideal, for an aspiration. It's not treasury

1:29.2

or energy or transportation, it's justice, capital J justice. Forgive me, I'm an alum, and many of us

1:37.4

feel like DOJ is something more than just a place where we used to work and have these great jobs.

1:42.6

It feels more like a place where we grew up.

1:44.9

It's something we all believe in deeply. DOJ stands alone above and beyond politics, or at least

1:50.4

it ought to. Merrick Garland's Senate confirmation hearing this week was mostly substantive,

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