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In reply to the discussion: 100% conviction rate? Thank you AG Garland! [View all]
Beastly Boy
(9,891 posts)44. Laws originate at the ballot box.
Last edited Fri May 5, 2023, 01:01 AM - Edit history (1)
Adjudication merely determines whether existing laws had been broken and dispense with appropriate remedies. The laws themselves get passed by the lawmakers. Lawmakers are chosen at the ballot box.
To continue with Cyrano's analogy in Post #9, Garland's job is to diagnose and treat symptoms, not come up with the cure. In this analogy, lawmakers are the authors of a medical instruction manual, and Garland is the physician who makes the diagnosis and prescribes remedies based on this manual. Different missions and different skill sets.
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This is why one can hope to have a DOJ and an AG who build cases methodically.
Just A Box Of Rain
May 2023
#4
A properly designed constitutional democracy is a prerequisite for equal enforcement of law
Silent3
May 2023
#46
While I agree with you that our system of government has certain fundamental flaws,
Beastly Boy
May 2023
#57
I hardly think making a special effort to speed up top-level J6 prosecutions...
Silent3
May 2023
#58
A special effort, indeed an unprecedented, extraordinary effort has been made by DOJ to go after
Beastly Boy
May 2023
#60
Not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg, but I am pretty confident that
Beastly Boy
May 2023
#59
No its not, too much voter suppression and digitized gerrymandering. Dems brute force election ...
uponit7771
May 2023
#79
in 20 years? no, not without a federal election standard like HR1 ... or ... dems taking over state
uponit7771
May 2023
#86
The "cause" is a flaw in the human species that causes many people to embrace ugly
Just A Box Of Rain
May 2023
#18
I've made some unflattering comments about how Garland needs to get going on Trump.
BradBo
May 2023
#13
Not just a conviction rate. But an historical SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY CONVICTION RATE.
ancianita
May 2023
#29
I've seen a lot of commentary about how hard it's been to get convictions on seditious conspiracy.
ShazzieB
May 2023
#65
So, THAT'S the metric? That he won't indict unless he gets a 100% conviction rate?
Goodheart
May 2023
#47
Not even one of the planners, or funders. They're too busy continuing the coup via congress.
onecaliberal
May 2023
#48
It's amazing, isn't it? Meanwhile, Trump is having a "presidential town hall" on CNN.
Scrivener7
May 2023
#71
Thank you! This needed to be pointed out as well as the fact that what we see or what
Bev54
May 2023
#85
The process of justice, with all its beautiful and deliberative order is failing miserably.
jaxexpat
May 2023
#91
I sure hope not but I really don't think it is so much the prison as it will be the indictment.
Bev54
May 2023
#107
Do you know what Trump has been charged with in the J-6 investigation? Do provide a list!
Beastly Boy
May 2023
#87
"Seditious conspiracy" has only been successful a couple times before Garland
BumRushDaShow
May 2023
#94
This is what you WANT trump to be charged with, not what he has been charged with.
Beastly Boy
May 2023
#102