The House voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress this week, and let’s stipulate it is largely a form of gesture politics. Yet on the legal merits, which Mr ...

Elsewhere in the Journal, the editorial board wrote of Garland: “We can’t think of a single issue that has divided the Court on which Mr. Garland would reliably vote differently from the four ...

That marks a switch from the policy put in place by Attorney General Garland — called “news media guidelines” — that restricted how prosecutors could pursue leak investigations. That came after Mr.

Garland, who was appointed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., that flatly banned going after reporters’ information in leak investigations. Mr. Garland’s policy was a major shift after ...