On Feb. 7, 2022, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a member of the Judiciary Committee, <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/arson_letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote a letter</a> to Attorney General Merrick Garland. It was about the case of Montez Lee, a Rochester, Minnesota, man sentenced to 10 years in prison for setting a fire that killed a man during the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/black-lives-matter?utm_campaign=autolink&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=autolink" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Black Lives Matter</a> riot in Minneapolis.