Attorney general nominee Merrick Garland said this week that the riots in Portland last year may not have qualified as domestic terrorism.
“My own definition, which is about the same as the statutory definition, is the use of violence or threats of violence in an attempt to disrupt democratic processes. So an attack on a courthouse, while in operation, trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases, that plainly is domestic extremism, domestic terrorism,” Garland told the Senate during a confirmation hearing on Monday.
