And, as soon as CBS News reported that Attorney General Merrick Garland had assigned the U.S. attorney in Chicago to review how “roughly 10” classified documents ended up in President Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, pundits and reporters began trying to mitigate the political fallout and diffuse claims of a double standard.
In today’s Politico Playbook, “courts guru” Josh Gerstein tells us that one of the distinctions “worth noting” between the two incidents is that there are fewer documents at stake, “about 300 in the Trump case versus ‘a small number’ at the think tank.”
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