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Similar to what the DOJ did under Trump, I will not have any complaints about them.
Response to orangecrush (Original post)
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AZSkiffyGeek
(10,814 posts)We need to do what Trump did because he got results!
malaise
(267,823 posts)Slobfather and his goons?
Silent3
(15,020 posts)The poster is suggesting the opposite.
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msfiddlestix
(7,265 posts)orangecrush
(19,237 posts)Colgate 64
(14,732 posts)was a mistake. Don't forget that Obama nominated him because he was quite conservative (in the forlorn hope that that would sway some Repubs). He has a judge's temperament, not a Prosecutor's which is what is needed here.
Locutusofborg
(524 posts)"Garland served as a special assistant to Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti from 1979 to 1981.
"in 1989 Garland became an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. As a line prosecutor, Garland represented the government in criminal cases ranging from drug trafficking to complex public corruption matters. Garland was one of the three principal prosecutors who handled the investigation into Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry's possession of cocaine."
"In 1993, Garland joined the new Clinton administration as deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice The following year, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick a key mentor of Garland's asked Garland to be her principal associate deputy attorney general."