Cruz complained that the Justice Department under President Barack Obama had been “politicized and weaponized,” though Cruz had never complained when those same charges were leveled against the Trump Justice Department. “I do not regard myself as anything other than the lawyer for the people of the United States, and I am not the president’s lawyer. I am the United States lawyer,” Garland said. Cruz brought up the Fast and the Furious scandal, a sting operation using firearms sales to track drug traffickers. Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, was held in contempt of Congress by the GOP majority for refusing to hand over documents related to the operation.

Source: Washington Post February 22, 2021 12:16 UTC