“Merrick Garland has seen the face of domestic terrorism,” said J. Gilmore Childers, a former Justice Department prosecutor who worked with Garland on the Oklahoma City case. In 1989, he left his lucrative job and joined the Justice Department as a prosecutor. It was a solemn moment.”Jamie Gorelick, the deputy attorney general who sent Garland to Oklahoma City, said the future nominee was the right person for the job. “That is certainly a lesson he learned from the Oklahoma City bombing.”Garland has said he was so deeply affected by the bombing that he asked to remain in Oklahoma City to supervise the eventual trials. After several weeks in Oklahoma City, Garland returned to Washington to help run the Justice Department.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 21, 2021 09:56 UTC