Donald Trump’s Legal Challenges Merrick Garland could be asked
WASHINGTON – As Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s election to US Attorney General, goes before the Senate for its approval processIt stands under the looming question of what legal consequences the former President Donald Trump could possibly face.
Garland, who last served in the Justice Department during the Clinton administration and was blocked as Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, is likely to come across targeted questions about Trump in his confirmatory hearing, which begins Monday.
Trump, meanwhile, faces a number of legal issues as he is brought back to life as a private citizen – not just because of his January 6 speech prior to the Capitol attack, but also regarding his business relationships and a defamation case for comments, to which he commented an E. Jean Carroll, who …