Attorney General Garland was set to appear before Congress, the Wall Street Journal ran a piece exploring the attorney general's

Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared defiant Tuesday as he spent hours fielding questions from lawmakers on a range of topics, occasionally sparring with Republican House members seeking to use his testimony to attack the Justice Department.

Garland laced into his Republican critics, blaming them for peddling “extremely dangerous falsehoods” that undermine the justice system and put law-enforcement officials in harm’s way. “I will not be intimidated,” he said. “These repeated attacks on the Justice Department are unprecedented and unfounded.”