The 2024 election year will be a year of trials

THE 2024 ELECTION YEAR WILL BE A YEAR OF TRIALS. Every now and then, the attorney general, whoever he or she is, whichever administration he or she serves, writes a memo called "Election Year Sensitivities." The purpose is to remind the Justice Department's 115,000 employees that they should not allow politics to influence their work.

"Department of Justice employees are entrusted with the authority to enforce the laws of the United States and with the responsibility to do so in a neutral and impartial manner," Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote in...