Vitriol on both sides of the political spectrum threatens to win out over good-faith debate. The attack on the Capitol at a critical moment, the groundless claims of election theft, pose enormous challenges for the law and particularly the United States Department of Justice. Fortunately for Attorney General Merrick Garland there is guidance—from the founding era and, more recently, the advice then-Assistant Attorney General Theodore Olson gave to his boss Attorney General William French Smith in 1982 during Ronald Reagan's first term.