House Republicans and Attorney General Merrick Garland engaged in a heated exchange on Wednesday, with Republicans alleging that Garland and the Justice Department have been using their authority to advance the interests of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, characterizing it as the “weaponization” of the department.

Garland’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee marked his first in two years and occurred during an extraordinary period in the department’s history.

He currently oversees two significant cases: one against Donald Trump, the first former president to face criminal charges, and another involving the son of the current sitting president, the Associated Press reported.

Led by Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, Republican members of the committee wasted no time in asserting that the Justice Department is showing preferential treatment to the Biden family while focusing investigative efforts on Trump, who is a likely contender for the 2024 presidential race.

“There’s one investigation protecting President Biden. There’s another one attacking President Trump,” Jordan declared. “The Justice Department’s got both sides of the equation covered.”

Garland, with careful and resolute conviction, shielded the nation’s largest law enforcement agency comprising over 115,000 employees during a period marked by escalating political and physical threats targeting agents and their families.

“Our job is not to take orders from the president, from Congress, or from anyone else, about who or what to criminally investigate,” the attorney general said. “I am not the president’s lawyer. I will also add that I am not Congress’ prosecutor. The Justice Department works for the American people.”

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