Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) lashed out at Republicans for "running interference" for former President Donald Trump on Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
"This is what good faith oversight looks like, not the Republican playbook of running interference for a twice impeached, four times indicted, white supremacist demagogue who would rather overthrow our democracy than admit he lost an election," Bush said.
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"This is what good faith oversight looks like, not the Republican playbook of running interference for a twice impeached, four times indicted white supremacist demagogue who would rather overthrow our democracy than admit he lost an election." - @CoriBush pic.twitter.com/NFeBWOeBfH
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The committee held a hearing on Wednesday over the "weaponization" of the Justice Department, featuring testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Republicans focused mainly on the DOJ's involvement in the Hunter Biden investigation and argued that there is a "two-tiered system of justice," one for Trump and conservatives and another for allies of the Biden administration.
However, Garland told House Judiciary Committee members that the Justice Department treats everyone alike "regardless of party, regardless of ethnicity, regardless of wealth.
"I understand that people may not understand why particular investigations are conducted in particular ways until all the facts come out. That's what we have a court for," Garland said.
Bush praised Garland for the DOJ's approach to investigating and charging insurrectionists from the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots. However, in reference to her comments on "good faith oversight," she raised concerns about the Justice Department's approach to mass incarcerations of black people, the Bureau of Prisons, and the "violation of civil rights" of activists protesting the installation of Atlanta's Public Safety Training Center, known as "Cop City."
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"These all may seem like unrelated issues, but to me, to my constituents, the countless advocates, and to people who are most directly impacted, they are interconnected and they all speak to whether the department under your leadership will advance justice or simply pay lip service to it," Bush said.
Garland said he "could not be prouder" of his department's civil rights records, calling it the "fundamental basis" for why the DOJ was founded.