By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent
CNN
March 23, 2021
(CNN)Attorney General Merrick Garland is quietly ushering in a change in tone at the Justice Department, making few public comments and staying out of sight — and unlike his predecessor — eschewing commentary about ongoing investigations.
That’s one reason why an interview by Michael Sherwin, the former acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, discussing his push to use a rarely used sedition law to charge January 6 rioters and the possible culpability of former President Donald Trump for inciting the insurrection, reverberated in the new no-drama Justice Department.
Sherwin’s interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” prompted criticism from officials, even though the remarks largely mirrored those Sherwin made previously in a January news conference.