Attorney General Merrick Garland says Justice Department 'will not bend' to political pressure

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Updated 12:24 PM EDT, Thu September 12, 2024


CNN — Attorney General Merrick Garland slammed efforts to turn the Justice Department into a “political weapon” during a fiery speech Thursday to department staff and US attorneys from across the country amid attacks from former President Donald Trump and his allies.

Garland decried the “escalation of attacks” against its career staff in years through “conspiracy theories, dangerous falsehoods, efforts to bully and intimidate career public servants by repeatedly and publicly singling them out, and threats of actual violence.”

“It is dangerous to target and intimidate individual employees of this Department simply for doing their jobs,” he said from the DOJ headquarters in Washington. “And it is outrageous that you have to face these unfounded attacks because you are doing what is right and upholding the rule of law.”

The attorney general’s comments come as Trump has claimed that the Justice Department has been weaponized against him amid his criminal prosecutions and suggested that he would politicize the department should he return to the Oval Office. Neither Trump nor his allies were mentioned by name.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/12/politics/garland-condemn-attacks-on-justice-department-speech/index.html

[Fullduplexxx]

1. Unless there's a democrat to prosecute

[gab13by13]

2. Exactly,

Ask Hunter Biden who was prosecuted for a crime that is rarely prosecuted. Garland had to make Weiss a special counsel so that he could try Hunter in California

Meanwhile TSF stole 100 million dollars during Covid by claiming a 651 million dollar tax deduction on his tower in Chicago, formed a holding company and double dipped the deduction. DOJ and the IRS are nowhere to be found..

[polichick]

3. Smoke and mirrors - but it's still clear how the doj is bending...

And it ain’t toward the rule of law.

[ancianita]

6. How about at least one or two examples to back up this alleged "bending" claim.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

4. Merrick Garland is almost all bark and no bite.

That's why Trump is eating that dog alive.

[ancianita]

7. What does THAT mean. How are the thousands of convictions and sentencings even "almost" all bark.

Prove he is, or you're casting aspersions on an ally of democracy as well as Joe Biden's nominated/confirmed AG.

Trump isn't eating anything but the time afforded him through lawyer argued due process through appeals -- any slowness of justice is due to the courts, not by the Garland DOJ.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

12. It's called an OPINION.

There's this thing called THE FIRST ADMENDMENT.

Lastly, I don't have to answer to you.

Congratulations. You're the first DUer I've put on ignore.

[BaronChocula]

15. PERFECT RESPONSE!

[Frank D. Lincoln]

16. Thank you, BaronChocula.

I hate being that way with people but that person left me with no choice.

[SamKnause]

5. Blah blah blah.

Fine you are not bending.

Stand up straight and tall and do something about it.

If you don't, then you are bending.

[twodogsbarking]

8. What about Jan 6?

[canuckledragger]

9. Will not bend 'anymore than I already have'

...to political pressure is a more truthful statement.

He certainly bent over backwards to please the Heritage Foundation and the republican party while claiming to not want to show bias and such.

[Intractable]

10. Garland will be gone at the beginning of the next administration regardless of who wins the election.

If only we could have Harris as AG and the big P.

Bye-bye Garland.

[JoetheShow]

11. Bold talk but understand, if the Orange Menace wins he will pick the head of the DOJ.

You can be sure he will pick a reliable boot licker who will prosecute anyone he is told to prosecute. The joy of our legal system is, even if you've done nothing, you must spend tens of thousands of dollars and months or years of your life proving it.

[republianmushroom]

13. 43 months and counting (includes foot dragging)

[republianmushroom]

23. Justice Department 'will not bend' to political pressure, Seems maybe they did.

Washington Post: FBI slowed investigation into Trump’s role in January 6 for fear of appearing political

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/19/politics/fbi-doj-trump-investigation-january-6/index.html

A.G. Merrick Garland Resisted Investigating Trump’s Connection to January 6: Washington Post

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/garland-doj-resisted-investigating-trump-january-6

'Washington Post' journalist on FBI's delayed investigation of Trump's role in Jan. 6

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/19/1183098037/washington-post-journalist-on-fbis-delayed-investigation-of-trumps-role-in-jan-6

The FBI Desperately Wants to Let Trump Off the Hook

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/fbi-trump-mar-a-lago-raid-prosecution/673251/

Inside the Mar-a-Lago Raid: Prosecutors and FBI Feuded Over Trump Search, According to Washington Post Deep-Dive

https://www.mediaite.com/print/inside-the-mar-a-lago-raid-prosecutors-and-fbi-feuded-over-trump-search-according-to-washington-post-deep-dive/

[wolfie001]

14. I wish he'd catch all the white racists using the phone systems and internet to make threats!!!

He could start right there. They have the technology and resources. It's like they don't wanna catch their family members.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. That category of crime is covered by MULTIPLE agencies outside of DOJ

e.g.,, DHS & FCC.

Phone = FCC.

New Rules to Aid in Tracking Threatening Phone Calls

The DOJ field offices will work with the agencies that regulate this, to investigate and develop the cases, and those will get prosecuted by the local U.S. Attorney Offices where the crime occurred and/or where the perp was found.

It just doesn't make the "national news" but is often reported on the local news.

DOJ does not equal "the entire federal government".

[wolfie001]

19. I just wish they track every one down

Every call is a disruption of normalcy. Maddening!

[BumRushDaShow]

20. They do when they get a complaint

but it doesn't always "make the national news" unless it is ready to be prosecuted and is against some V.I.P. Otherwise it might make the "local news".

[Javaman]

18. As if he has before?

For fuck sakes.

Perhaps if he did “bend” a bit , we wouldn’t be in such sad shape with prosecuting the orange asshole

[Autumn]

21. That horse left the barn when Trump was not prosecuted for his actions, failure to act to protect

Congress by calling in the guard and his own words instigating Jan6.

[tonekat]

22. I hope Harris dumps his ineffective ass

He should never have been Biden's choice for AG.