Yearning for Justice

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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Merrick Garland prosecuted the Oklahoma City bombing, has vowed to crack down on domestic terror, and promises to follow all leads on the insurrection.

Over at his new substack, @StevenBeschloss sees reasons to be optimistic about the incoming AG:

Yearning for Justice
The arrival of Merrick Garland
america.substack.com
6:39 AM · Mar 1, 2021

Merrick Garland evokes a swirl of emotions. Anger that Mitch McConnell refused to even give him a hearing for Supreme Court justice. Sadness that a man this good and intellectually talented was unfairly denied under false pretenses. Now relief and inspiration that the country can benefit from his wit, compassion and commitment to justice at a moment of such great need.

Credit to Joe Biden for a kind of karmic resolution: Garland is expected to be confirmed for Attorney General by the Senate Judiciary Committee today and the full Senate later this week.

The shameless rejection of justice and truth has often been overwhelming during the last four years. It’s not that Trump invented flagrant violations of law or is the first White House occupant to abandon the ideal of equality and the duty to serve our most vulnerable populations. This has been going on for a long time at the upper echelons of power in America.

No, the intolerable thing was that that he openly, sadistically relished abandoning the values and ideals enshrined in the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence—“that all men are created equal”—and he found so many willing and arrogant accomplices.

The mind wanders to one William Pelham Barr, Donald Trump’s Roy Cohn, who of course did nothing about the hundreds of migrant children who were stripped from their families—and whose first high-profile act after arriving as Attorney General on Valentine’s Day 2019 was to lie to the public about the contents of the Mueller Report, sowing confusion and doubt about its findings.

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