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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hey, Garland bashers and haters, I got some fresh red meat for you right HERE! [View all]
From yours and my favorite reality based site, emptywheel:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/11/how-garland-whinger-ankush-khardoris-willful-impotence-helps-trump-evade-accountability/
It is precisely the reason Im so impatient with the Merrick Garland whinger industry, which has flourished again since Trumps win: because they replicate precisely the impotence that got us here. They always asked that Garland do the work, singlehandedly, of making Trump go away, without considering the political groundwork that was necessary to any successful legal case.
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He addresses SCOTUS actions in four paragraphs close to the end of his rant. He ignores how their interventions on the Colorado case and Fischer also affected DOJs options, and never mentions precisely how long they stalled the case: eight months, with a guarantee of more on the back end. Once you address SCOTUS delays and rewriting of the Constitution, its not clear a case could ever have been brought before an election, even ignoring how COVID stalled everything for a year, to say nothing of bringing an insurrection charge that would be (per the Colorado decision) the only thing that could disqualify Trump from office. If thats the case, it wouldnt matter whether Garland or a gun-toting Adam Schiff, as prosecutor, were in charge. SCOTUS intervention, assuming it would have been the same whether it happened in 2021 or 2022 or 2023, was decisive. Trumps judges made a prosecution of him before the election impossible and further ruled that the only thing that could disqualify him was an insurrection charge.
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More importantly, WaPo focused on Steve DAntuonos hesitancy to turn to the fake electors, even as DOJ was pushing to do so. Which is to say that DAntuono someone no longer at DOJ was the key cause for delay, not Garland.
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Donald Trump is about to do a great deal of outrageous things at the start of his term to reverse the treatment of January 6 as a crime. The response cannot be to say, ho hum, if only that awful Merrick Garland would have yelled louder, and give up, especially not when no amount of yelling was going to change what SCOTUS did.
The response is to stop hoping for a sparkle unicorn to do this work for us. The response is to take some agency for making the case about Donald Trump. And a first step in that process is to stop blaming Garland for things the public record shows he didnt do, and especially to stop blaming Garland for things that more important villains, like John Roberts, did do.
The first step to effective accountability is to identify the actual villain.
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He addresses SCOTUS actions in four paragraphs close to the end of his rant. He ignores how their interventions on the Colorado case and Fischer also affected DOJs options, and never mentions precisely how long they stalled the case: eight months, with a guarantee of more on the back end. Once you address SCOTUS delays and rewriting of the Constitution, its not clear a case could ever have been brought before an election, even ignoring how COVID stalled everything for a year, to say nothing of bringing an insurrection charge that would be (per the Colorado decision) the only thing that could disqualify Trump from office. If thats the case, it wouldnt matter whether Garland or a gun-toting Adam Schiff, as prosecutor, were in charge. SCOTUS intervention, assuming it would have been the same whether it happened in 2021 or 2022 or 2023, was decisive. Trumps judges made a prosecution of him before the election impossible and further ruled that the only thing that could disqualify him was an insurrection charge.
(Snip)
More importantly, WaPo focused on Steve DAntuonos hesitancy to turn to the fake electors, even as DOJ was pushing to do so. Which is to say that DAntuono someone no longer at DOJ was the key cause for delay, not Garland.
(Snip)
Donald Trump is about to do a great deal of outrageous things at the start of his term to reverse the treatment of January 6 as a crime. The response cannot be to say, ho hum, if only that awful Merrick Garland would have yelled louder, and give up, especially not when no amount of yelling was going to change what SCOTUS did.
The response is to stop hoping for a sparkle unicorn to do this work for us. The response is to take some agency for making the case about Donald Trump. And a first step in that process is to stop blaming Garland for things the public record shows he didnt do, and especially to stop blaming Garland for things that more important villains, like John Roberts, did do.
The first step to effective accountability is to identify the actual villain.
Much much more at link, with evidence based links to back everything up.
Happy ranting and scapegoating! Flame away!
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Hey, Garland bashers and haters, I got some fresh red meat for you right HERE! [View all]
Fiendish Thingy
Nov 11
OP
Sooo if Trump had a full beard and a turban and slightly darker skin on J6 and said his words you're claiming the DOJ
uponit7771
Nov 11
#1
Garland spent 4 years prosecuting absolute nobody's, protecting billionaires from bitcoin theft and protecting TSF
usonian
Nov 11
#4
Didn't have any trouble with the SC when he went after Hunter Biden at the Republicans demands....
Bengus81
Nov 13
#58
You know, I'm beginning to understand why Ken Starr resorted to leaking dicey information on Clinton.
Baitball Blogger
Nov 13
#17
Well, Merrick the Meek, was supposedly the top dog at the DOJ wasn't he ?
republianmushroom
Nov 13
#25
It has been for 45 months and counting and it will continue to be one of my primary focuses.
republianmushroom
Nov 13
#36
I haven't been on the bash Garland train, but I am pissed that an entire YEAR was wasted just to appoint Jack Smith
themaguffin
Nov 13
#27
Petulantly inviting people to "flame away" kind of erases your imagined credibility
Orrex
Nov 13
#38
The article (from the Daily Mail rag) is about Biden's frustration over Hunter's prosecution
Fiendish Thingy
Nov 13
#68
All SC's including Smith, were appointed in an appropriate, timely manner
Fiendish Thingy
Nov 13
#65
And yet, her assertions regarding the scapegoating of Garland remain unrefuted. Nt
Fiendish Thingy
Nov 13
#72
If you'd read the article, you'd know there was nothing Garland could have done to "keep us safe"
Fiendish Thingy
Nov 14
#84
Give it a rest, already. Garland should've personally prosecuted trump as soon as...
brush
Nov 13
#83
Again- Swift and total conviction of all charges would not have stopped a second Trump term
Fiendish Thingy
Nov 14
#88
Worse than Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, or Alberto Gonzales or Francis Biddle?
Fiendish Thingy
Nov 14
#93