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(67,108 posts)elleng
(130,895 posts)he's surely aware of the issues, and the importance of addressing them promptly and properly.
Ocelot II
(115,686 posts)Are you suggesting that he's stupid or naive? Do you think Obama would have nominated him for the Supreme Court or that Biden would have selected him for AG if that were the case? Do you mistrust their judgment, too? This isn't Garland's first rodeo - He worked for the DoJ's criminal division before he became a judge, and acted as a supervising prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing, the Unabomber case, and the Atlanta Olympics bombings. I think he knows what he's doing.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)This is now.
A new America, where an active coup plot is still ongoing.
cilla4progress
(24,731 posts)would you take David Rothkopf's word on it‽
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A good justice is made of different stuff than a good prosecutor.
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Ocelot II
(115,686 posts)he did Mcveigh and the Unabomber prosecutions. Sorry if he's not moving fast enough for you.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)But by all means, let's assume that he's an incompetent hack because some people on the internet don't think he's doing what they want him to do fast enough.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Ocelot II
(115,686 posts)He has impressive credentials in that area. What he doesn't have is a law degree or a portfolio of legal commentary.
Accordingly, I don't give his opinion any special weight; and anyway, you know what they say about opinions.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)I just don't get the "do you think [Obama, Garland, Biden, Clinton, or any other person who is actually in the arena dealing with what we're sitting on the outside speculating about] UNDERSTANDS [x, y, z, or whatever thought we think about when we have the time or interest] questions ...
Ocelot II
(115,686 posts)to have to wait for something to happen and expecting it to happen immediately, which it won't, and being angry because it hasn't. The reasons these things don't happen in the time frame of a Law & Order episode have been explained repeatedly, and there are other reasons why we might never see TFG do the perp walk - something I, too, would dearly love to see. But casting aspersions on the people who are trying to clean up TFG's messes, a task akin to Hercules' cleaning of the Augean stables*, makes no sense.
*Hercules accomplished this task by causing two rivers to run through the stables. I don't think Garland has that kind of power.
CrispyQ
(36,463 posts)~crosses fingers
triron
(22,002 posts)cilla4progress
(24,731 posts)for this moment.
Solomon
(12,310 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)And I'll bet he even knows more about his job and the responsibility it carries than people on the internet do.
cilla4progress
(24,731 posts)devolve.
And a little disappointing.
cilla4progress
(24,731 posts)Link to tweet
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