Anthony Fauci, late of the Federal government, infamously claimed that an attack on him was an attack on science.
Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science[.]
Now Attorney General Merrick Garland is echoing that self-important, arrogant sentiment and broadening it to include all of the Department of Justice, and not just him personally.
Some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department… This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy.
Because DoJ and every part of it are above criticism.