Merrick Garland is not naive about political violence

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His work on the Oklahoma City bombing may offer clues about his investigation of Donald Trump

, is roiling some of the same currents of anti-government paranoia and hate that led to the bombing in 1995. Threats against theand other law-enforcement officials have surged. Three days after the raid, which took place on August 8th, an armed man in body armour tried to break into theOn August 15th another man was charged in federal court in Pennsylvania with “influencing, impeding or retaliating” against a law-enforcement officer.

Mr Trump and his allies claim none of the information is classified, because Mr Trump issued a standing order that documents he took home were automatically declassified. It is an imaginative defence, and also possibly an irrelevant one. The warrant, at least in part, sidesteps the question of classification.

In one of the curious inversions that are becoming more common as America’s politics grows ever more polarised, the search of the former president’s premises has put the Democrats in the position of defending law-enforcement officers and set Republicans against them. A number of Republican politicians have called for “defunding” or even abolishing the, playing off calls by Democrats two years ago to “defund the police”—for which Republicans are still criticising them.

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