In April 2021 Merrick Garland APPEALED the first court decision to release the memo that Barr

[pnwmom]

claimed to rely on in making his decision not to prosecute Trump.

So my hopes are not high that he will refrain from appealing this week's judicial decision to release the memo.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-appeals-order-faulting-former-us-attorney-general-barr-2021-05-25/

May 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday said in a court filing it would appeal a court decision faulting former U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s handling of the 2019 special counsel report on then-President Donald Trump, a move congressional Democrats had opposed.

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The department said it would not object to releasing an introductory section of the internal memo at issue in the case, while adding that the rest of the memo should not be made public as it related to a "decisional process".

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Before publicly releasing Mueller's report, Barr sent a letter to congressional leaders and held a news conference that summarized Mueller's findings. Many Democrats accused Barr of misrepresenting Mueller's findings in order to change the public narrative at the time.

Jackson validated this view in her stinging May 3 decision. She said Barr misrepresented the Mueller report in his letter to Congress, and ordered the release of a 2019 legal memorandum to a government accountability group.

[Tetrachloride]

1. Twilight Zone take: Imagine no coffee tomorrow morning

Its like: WTF is Garland appealing the decision for

It would be nice if someone I respect could weigh in, such as Congressman Adam Schiff.

(i am having coffee so that particular lighting struck)

[OnDoutside]

2. Ultimately the question should be whether Barr created this memo

for the good of democracy and justice, OR was it an effort to pervert the course of democracy and justice?

Garland should not stand over decisions of previous AGs if those decisions were horseshit.

[RockRaven]

3. Government institutions always prioritize protecting themselves over serving the public with

the argument that if they were even a microunit less powerful (or more transparent, which is often conflated) they simply won't be able to serve the public as well as they could if only you let them retain that microunit of power/opacity.

They do it regardless of party for the most part, though there are some notable exceptions. If we wanted such notable exceptions from the DOJ in the wake of TFG, Garland was a poor choice. He's a institutionalist. He won't be doing anything which unnecessarily concedes any prerogatives of the DOJ or executive branch, he will see it as his duty not to.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

4. Maybe he appealed it knowing it could be struck down....

...by the SCOTUS? Is that possible?

[Scrivener7]

5. Jesus. SMDH.

[onenote]

6. What do people think this memo is going to show?

It was prepared for Barr. It will be advocacy piece that is designed to justify the decision not to prosecute. How does its release help?

[Generic Brad]

7. Or he may have considered it a criminal matter

And if so, releasing it would compromise an investigation into Barr.

[Mr. Ected]

8. Garland was apparently asserting the deliberative process privilege as a reason to not release

He took a step to protect his department soon after taking over DOJ knowing that it would be subject to higher court review.

He didn't want to come in and say "BARR WAS A CROOK". He wanted to remove any claims by the fascists of taking a partisan approach.

It took this long for a court to review it all and independently determine that BARR WAS A CROOK.

In the meantime, Merrick shook up the DOJ from within and started the long process of going after Trump and all his co-conspirators.