9mo ago

The wreckage Merrick Garland leaves behind

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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20241111123949/https://www.publicnotice.co/p/merrick-garland-failures-explained

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Related article that's not as good and on a crappier website, but has at least one passage that makes an important observation in passing - holy crap were there a lot of highly educated and highly paid legal experts who went on TV and said obvious bullshit
It was clear after Trump’s loss in 2020 — even before Jan. 6 — that his conduct warranted serious legal scrutiny by the Justice Department, particularly in the area of potential financial crimes. But that probe, which could and should have been pursued by Biden’s U.S. Attorney and aspiring attorney general in Manhattan, somehow never materialized.
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Garland’s defenders over the years — including many Democratic lawyers who regularly appear on cable news — claimed that Garland and the department were simply following a standard, “bottom-up” investigative effort. Prosecutors would start with the rioters, on this theory, and then eventually get to Trump.
This never made any sense.
It did not reflect some unwritten playbook for criminal investigations. In fact, in criminal cases involving large and potentially overlapping groups of participants — as well as serious time sensitivity — good prosecutors try to get to the top as quickly as possible.
The Justice Department can — and should — have quickly pursued the rioters and Trump in parallel. The fact that many legal pundits actually defended this gross dereliction of duty — and actually argued that this was the appropriate course — continues to amaze me.
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what an absolute waste. just spaffed american democracy up the wall through ineptitude and cowardice.
- But wait, I was told repeatedly that justice moves slowly and that they were on top of all the criminal activity, we just couldn't see it yet.
- I almost hope he accidentally pissed someone off in the maga sphere, just so he can learn that bowing down or trying to work with fascists got us where we are.
- spaffed american democracy up the wall
  is that you, Boris?
  
  close, jonathan pie gave me that term
So . . that unredacted Mueller Report then . . .
Sometimes you got to take it to the bully. Make him sit down.
As much as I hated what the Republicans did to his Supreme Court nomination, it really does look like we dodged a bullet there.
- Dodged a bullet only to get hit by the Gorsuch missile?
  
  Also, the bullet that was dodged hit the radiator of the car that could've taken us to the hospital
- narrator: we dodged no bullets as far as the supreme court is concerned
When I hear the name Merrick Garland, I want to spit in disgust at that craven coward who betrayed and likely murdered rule of law and democracy in this country.
Thank jebus McConnell blocked his SCOTUS nomination

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