Boston Marathon Bomber Death Sentence Unites Trump, Biden (1)

The Justice Department is still pressing the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentences, continuing its Trump-era position despite President Joe Biden’s campaign pledge to eliminate capital punishment.

DOJ’s brief filed Monday mirrors its Trump-era petition filed last year, sometimes word-for-word, asking the high court in both instances to put the case back on track toward a “just conclusion.”

The department under Biden has flipped positions in a series of other cases. In a recent one involving federal benefits for people in Puerto Rico, the department maintained the Trump-era stance opposing benefits, but Biden’s White ...