Garland is worried about being sensitive in election year

[Duncanpup]

I still am very sensitive that a sitting President and his accomplices tried to coup our democracy.

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It took Nuremberg prosecutors 6 months to start the trials were 18 months in after 1/6.

Fucking disgusting.

[dem4decades]

1. Can't say a thing, don't want a yellow message.

[Duncanpup]

2. It's a fight for democracy

[brooklynite]

3. Last time I checked, Trump isn't a candidate...

...and DOJ is putting people in jail for Jan 6.

[Duncanpup]

7. I am talking as garland memo

Over candidates running for office trump and his enablers.

[brooklynite]

8. Read the memo again...

Didn't say "don't prosecute". It said "get approval"

[PJMcK]

4. Is Garland related to Susan Collins?

He seems to be deeply concerned about events surrounding his job.

Yet he's done nothing.

President Biden made a poor choice for Attorney General.

[jalan48]

5. Everyone knows this is bullshit after watching what happened on Jan 6

I think the appropriate term for Garland is enabler. He’s our Neville Chamberlain.

[gohuskies]

6. Ridiculous that Garland is dithering when tRump's criminality is so blatant

Garland needs to take a hard look at himself. tRump is an existential threat to the nation and if Garland chooses to do nothing just because the mob boss announces he is running for office again, then the nation as it was founded will end and we become another despotic authoritarian with zero civil liberties and freedom.

[RockRaven]

9. Sleepwalking into the next, successful, coup.

[RussBLib]

19. I have not heard that detail

are you certain about that?

passage in question:
Garland showed his hand in adding Barr's directive from 2020 that there is to be no investigation of any candidate who announces he or she is running for president.

I read that he does not want investigations too close to an election, which seems reasonable. If your passage is true, it's pretty fucking stupid since the 2024 election is quite a ways off.

[RussBLib]

20. according to Truthout

which I tend to trust...

snip
The memo, which was first reported on by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, demands that investigators receive written permission from the attorney general before opening inquiries into individuals running for president or vice president, or into senior members involved in their political campaigns. It also limits what DOJ officials can say or how they can proceed in an investigation of such persons.

Getting written permission before opening an inquiry into people running for prez is potentially quite different from not investigating any prez candidate at all.

Truthout article. https://truthout.org/articles/garland-issues-memo-shielding-political-candidates-from-doj-inquiries/

[greenjar_01]

11. Unfortunately, he was the wrong man for the job

We needed a serious and aggressive prosecutor. We got an institutionalist law professor.

It will cost us dearly.

[gab13by13]

12. I hit on Garland with the best of them,

but this memo is designed to prevent what James Comey did to Hillary. On the other hand, if only AG's under a Democratic president follow the memo then it is bs.

[kairos12]

16. That is the problem.

One side plays by the rules, the other punches you in the cradle.

Guess who wins.

[Celerity]

23. +1 Rampant normalcy bias, far far beyond just Garland.

[JanMichael]

13. I wonder how Pres. Biden feels about his pick now? Maybe ok if he thinks he will act.

Or maybe disappointed in himself for selecting the "institutionalist" mushy AG?

Or maybe waiting until the end (2022 or 2024) to think about it?

I admit when I make mistakes in hiring which I have done in the past.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. JFC!!!

How many of these fucking threads are we going to have regarding this memo?
Almost every one of these threads misrepresents what the memo actually reads

This fucking place sometimes.

[chowder66]

18. +1

[C_U_L8R]

15. Crime happens

There shouldn't be a single day when the DOJ gives criminals a free pass, no matter who they are.

[kairos12]

17. When I read this news I had a flashback to

Mueller cluelessly paging through his 3 ring binder while searching for another "no comment."

Chump was laughing his ass of then, he's laughing his ass off now.

[miyazaki]

22. Perhaps Ichabod Crane needs to FO back to Sleepy Hollow. nt

[48656c6c6f20]

24. So I plan to vote the mid terms

And I am thinking about doing some felonies in the meantime. So I don't want be prosecuted until after the election because it might interfere with an election because I can't Cast a vote from the pokey. I want the same rights as kings. Err. Politicians.