Attorney General Merrick Garland pushed back hard against criticism of the Justice Department during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, slamming Republican rhetoric he said was “dangerous.” Garland told the GOP-led committee that claims the department was behind Donald Trump’s felony convictions in New York were a “conspiracy theory” that was “an attack on the judicial process itself,” the Hill reports. “I do not control the Manhattan district attorney,” he said. “The Manhattan district attorney does not report to us.” House Republicans are seeking to hold Garland in contempt for the…