"How on earth can you allow the attack on Project Veritas and its journalists to continue, and avoid being fairly tagged as a partisan, political hypocrite who wields your power in defense of an adult child of the president?" Short and Calli wrote to Garland. "It is for you to decide whether to allow your prosecutors to continue to set dangerous precedent, gut First Amendment protections, and facilitate the decline of a free and independent press, or to put your money where your mouth is, demonstrate that your [July 2021] memorandum was not a petty political ploy aimed at the prior administration, and terminate this abhorrent action that threatens a free and independent press."