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Me thinks, as in IMO, that perhaps garland accelerated the time frame for a known warrant or known step in progress so as to not have to deal with the barr bullshit policy that barr put in place to protect the republiklan politicians against present and future lawsuits. Shittypants is not a candidate nor has officially announced it yet so the barr nonsense may not apply.
Look to shittypants announcing his run for pres to try and fall under his pals barr's policy. Again, I don't know if garland is going to keep supporting barrs bullshit. He may not need to.

On Feb. 5, 2020, then-Attorney General William Barr promulgated a new policy .. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20200624/110836/HHRG-116-JU00-20200624-SD009-U19.pdf .. regarding the opening of investigations of presidential or vice presidential candidates. This policy set forth several requirements for opening or initiating any such investigation—including a rule that the attorney general, through the deputy attorney general, provide personal written approval, and that the investigation cannot be opened without notification to and consultation with the assistant attorneys general and U.S. attorneys with jurisdiction over the issue in question. Garland made clear that this policy was still in force in a memo in May of this year.

[Insert: ...No investigation into a presidential or vice-presidential candidate — or their senior campaign staff or advisers — can begin without written notification to the Justice Department and the written approval of Mr. Barr.
P - Point? The AG has the final approval and Barr is not the AG any longer. I don't think one can properly infer that more than a year out from a GOP primary campaign that Garland would uphold the Barr rule.
P - But in recent days, Mr. Garland has repeatedly asserted his right to investigate or prosecute anybody, including Mr. Trump, provided that is where the evidence leads.
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It’s not clear that the Barr policy applies to this situation: Trump is not yet a declared candidate, and a search warrant within a preexisting investigation is not the same as the opening of a fresh investigation. But if policy requires the attorney general to pay personal attention to the opening of an investigation against even minor presidential candidates and their senior advisers and staff, then surely he is also likely to pay personal attention to the execution of a search warrant against a former president, particularly one who has been hinting .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-2024-decision.html .. that he intends to run for president again.