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Showing Original Post only (View all)Charles Pierce: Merrick Garland Needs to Be Thanked For His Service and Shown the Door [View all]
He is not equipped to use all the tools god gave the Department of Justice to thwart the genuine threat to the Republic that is El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago, and the dangerous political climate he has created.https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a46709640/merrick-garland-fbi-failure/
I have come to the sad conclusion that, like Brian Wilson, Attorney General Merrick Garland just wasn't made for these times, and, like Tom Hagen, he's just not a wartime consigliere. I hung in there longer than most people I know. But, this week, the case against him got overwhelming. The man needs to be thanked for his service and then shown the door.
He is not equipped to use all the tools god gave the Department of Justice to thwart the genuine threat to the Republic that is El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago, and the dangerous political climate he has created. The former president* should have been charged federally with insurrection literally years ago. (Hell, during Thursday's oral arguments in the Supreme Court concerning the former president*'s eligibility under the 14th Amendment, even Justice Brett Kavanaugh wondered why he hadn't been so charged, and Kavanaugh used to work for Ken Starr, if we're talking about using all the DOJ's tools at your disposal.) The DOJ should have gone hammer-and-tongs after all the members of Congress who had the slightest connection with the insurrection. Somebody higher than the bear spray crowd should have been arrested and held until trial. Some of the expensive loafers should have been confiscated during the booking process rather than all those duckboots.
As diligent as Jack Smith has been, and god save the good work, he shouldn't have been necessary. This business didn't need a special counsel. It needed the Attorney General and the FBI right from jump. It should have been the very first item on Garland's plate when he walked in the door. And he's spent nearly four years faffing around until Republican congresscritters, some of whom had very curious connections to the events of that day, feel free to call the thugs and vandals, "political prisoners," and we've even come to arguing over whether or not the violence of that day constituted an "insurrection." Mother of god, the former president* is even money to be the next president, and the only real obstacle in his way seems to be whether or not his coronary arteries will do good service.
Thursday was the end for me. Appointing a Republican hack like Robert Hur to "investigate" the non-crimes of the president was bad enough, but then to allow Hur to pile on a political hit piece about the president's memory, thereby normalizing one of the former president*'s attack lines on DOJ stationery, is not admirably fair-minded, it's constitutionally suicidal. God save us from the fair-minded. They'll kill the country and wonder how they did it.
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Charles Pierce: Merrick Garland Needs to Be Thanked For His Service and Shown the Door [View all]
Celerity
Feb 11
OP
Apparently, someone who roams the halls around the Oval Office has, for years, been pushing to,.......
jaxexpat
Feb 11
#37
Hmm. I'm not sure if meant that as a sort of tongue in cheek? Or something you picked up by reporter?
msfiddlestix
Feb 11
#81
It would have been uncivil, I suppose, to appoint an attack dog as AG at the beginning of Biden's term.
Girard442
Feb 11
#3
Until now, I've been reluctant to criticize Garland because I'm not in his shoes and don't know what he faces.
Mister Ed
Feb 11
#9
Easiest thing in the world. First thing, be a president who does not violate the law.
jaxexpat
Feb 11
#33
I'm done making excuses for Garland. What he has done is reprehensible and outrageous. Pretty much a hit job on Biden.
RKP5637
Feb 11
#11
After Joe wins, he needs to clear the Secret Service, the DOJ, the FBI and Capitol Police of all TFG sycophants. Too...
machoneman
Feb 11
#17
Hey, how are things in Fort Mill? I used to live there. Indian Land, to be precise.
Goodheart
Feb 11
#18
"Somebody higher than the bear spray crowd should have been arrested and held until trial."
sop
Feb 11
#13
its getting annoying everytime they track down some loser who was in the capitol for 29 seconds
Blues Heron
Feb 11
#16
"God save us from the fair-minded. They'll kill the country and wonder how they did it."
BeyondGeography
Feb 11
#19
The very first item on Garland's plate should have been to prosecute obstruction of justice in the Mueller investigation
Goodheart
Feb 11
#20
Exactly. He holds office by that one, tenuous thread. Getting a new appointment through a fractious Senate.
paleotn
Feb 11
#29
"It should have been the very first item on Garland's plate when he walked in the door. " Exactly!
paleotn
Feb 11
#27
Where does this guy get off using exact phrases I was using in August 2022? Who am I, Rodney Dangerfield.
jaxexpat
Feb 11
#28
And yet, if he spoke out, he would also be accused of being partisan, no?
Fiendish Thingy
Feb 11
#56
Did Biden have a preview of Hur's Report before Garland Released it? I was wondering about that.
msfiddlestix
Feb 11
#89
IIRC, Hur submitted it to Garland last Monday, and it was released to public on Thursday
Fiendish Thingy
Feb 11
#90
I would normally find it really hard to wrap my head around Garland approving,except we've had three long years of
msfiddlestix
Feb 11
#94
F!!!! the repugs they are going to say it anyway. How many times do folks out here have to say. Fight fire with napalm.
usaf-vet
Feb 11
#60
Very valid article, Garland handled political uncertainty 2021 very well, but times change
bucolic_frolic
Feb 11
#43
"Not only...should Garland be gone ASAP, EVERY Republican in any government office should be removed"
MichMan
Feb 11
#58
Someone up thread asked about Garlands Deputy. What do we know at this point?
msfiddlestix
Feb 11
#91
If he had wanted to preserve democracy first rather than cater to obstreperous GOP
GreenWave
Feb 11
#52
I will post this again, how I see it. Garland, elite lawyer brain, good judge, piss poor A.G. and/or prosecutor. IMO
republianmushroom
Feb 11
#62
It's funny how this post seems to have left the usual Garland/DoJ cheerleading squad speechless
Silent3
Feb 11
#64