Last week, amid nationwide student protesting that threatened Jewish students and effectively shut down college campuses, twenty-seven Republican senators sent Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona a letter urging them to restore order and shut down the antisemitic, pro-Palestine mobs.

The letter requested an April 24 update that detailed the steps the attorney general's office would take to restore campus order and allay the Jewish students' fear for their safety.

A week later, the senators have yet to receive a formal reply.

At a House Judiciary Committee hearing last year, Garland – who is Jewish – emotionally testified that the Department of Justice's function is to provide equal protection to all. He then tearfully shared the story that two of his grandmother's siblings were Holocaust murder victims. The protection of the law provided equally to all, Garland continued passionately, is what makes America great, and what saved his immigrant grandmother's life when the U.S. took her in. "Under the protection of our laws, she was able to live without fear of persecution," Garland concluded.

Garland's refusal to actively support Republicans' calls to protect Jewish students is a sign Biden has........

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