What's The Difference Between Fanni Willis & Merrick Garland?

[gab13by13]

Many former prosecutors have opined that DOJ should have run a parallel investigation in the Raffesperger/Trump phone call.

I believe the difference between Fanni Willis and Merrick Garland is that Fanni Willis believes a former president can be indicted, but Merrick Garland hasn't made up his mind yet.

Please don't respond with we don't know what DOJ is or isn't doing.

"There are certain actions, parts of these different lines of effort to overturn the [2020] election, that I don't see evidence the Justice Department is investigating," Schiff, a member of the committee and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in an interview with "This Week" co-anchor and ABC Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz.

DOJ isn't waiting to get ducks in a row, they are in a row. We are waiting for Merrick Garland to decide if it is proper to indict a former president.

[we can do it]

1. OK then...you don't know what DOJ is or isn't doing.

[stopdiggin]

3. +1000%

also kind of a one trick pony. got anything ELSE that occasionally beeps on your radar?

[we can do it]

4. Ha ha, it does get old.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Perhaps the DC power brokers are deciding how this will go down.

I seriously doubt one man is deciding how the crime of the century will be handled. Especially when it means possibly prosecuting a former POTUS, half the US congress and a sitting SC justice and his wife. Way above his pay grade.

Typically in DC big decisions are made behind closed doors by very high level power politicians.

Then the public is spoon fed the decision, all cleaned up and presentable. Some high level people will be protected at all costs, others will be thrown to the wolves.

For example, McConnell may be happy to get rid of Trump, let Garland have him. But GOP Senators will not be touched, the senators who were active in 1/6. Supreme Ct may remain untouched as well.

Pelosi may have her own wish list as well.

As we look at consequences, we should be able to see whose fingerprints are on the decisions.

[gab13by13]

6. I would be extremely happy

if your scenario plays out.

Do these high level power politicians have the means to bypass the GQP politicians? There are only 2 Republicans left in Congress, 1 is retiring and 1 is woefully behind in her primary.

[Irish_Dem]

14. The whole point of being a high level power broker is you get to tell others what to do.

We shall see what these high level power people decide.

I think the GOP is tired of Trump and and GQP nut jobs.

It will be very interesting to see how this unfolds.

[brooklynite]

5. "Merrick Garland hasn't made up his mind yet"

And you've reached this conclusion how?

[gab13by13]

9. Listening to his teacher Laurence Tribe last night.

When discussing whether Garland will indict Trump, Tribe gave a long pause before responding, "I hope so."

If Garland has already decided he will indict Trump he deserves a chapter in JFK's Profiles in Courage. I had a stint as a councilman in my local borough where I defended my town against powerful people. I had many sleepless nights, and yes, there were death threats and goon squads involved. I only bring this up because I got a small taste of the enormous pressure that is on Merrick Garland right now. I hope he stays strong.

[brooklynite]

12. I'm guessing that your Borough Council didn't have a Federal Protective Service...

There's no basis for claiming without evidence that Garland is responding to threats of harm.

[gab13by13]

15. Where is your sarcasm thingy?

You don't think that Merrick is considering the effect that indicting Trump will have on 70 million heavily armed Magats?

Even Laurence Tribe said that Garland could be considering that indicting Trump could cause a Civil War.

[brooklynite]

16. No, I do not think that.

If you DO think that, I suggest you contact President Biden and request he replace Garland with someone who will carry out his duties responsibly (and that's not sarcasm either).

[Sneederbunk]

7. I will tell you the difference after Willis prosecutes Trump.

[onetexan]

8. i'm waiting to see if the rumor is true she will charge the Con by end of this month, per Newsweek

Her office has been investigating him for >16 months now, same time as DoJ has so it remains to be seen what comes of it...

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-may-charged-trying-overthrow-election-end-month-1714783

"Former President Donald Trump could face his first charges for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election as early as this month. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told the Associated Press that she expects to come to a decision on whether her office will charge the former president by June 30 for allegedly attempting to overthrow the results in Georgia.
"I certainly think that in the first half of the year that decision will be made," Willis said in January. "

[gab13by13]

10. The Newsweek article was wrong.

No way Trump gets charged by the end of the month. Willis is running a special grand jury which has no authority to indict, it gathers evidence and produces a recommendation whether to move forward to a real grand jury.

[onetexan]

13. the grand jury doesn't but she as DA does

[samsingh]

11. if the former president is trying to destroy the fing country - perhaps the comfortable

people at the justice department might want to do their jobs before the rest of us have to learn a foreign language

[Fiendish Thingy]

17. What do your psychic sources reveal about Garland's mindset re:

Indicting Eastman, Giuliani, Clark, Stone, Jones, Alexander, Meadows, et al?

Is he still making up his mind on whether it is proper to indict them as well, or is it that you just don’t know what you’re talking about?

Your singular focus on indicting Trump ignores the logical assumption that if Trump were to be indicted, his indictment would be preceded by the indictment of several, if not dozens, of co-conspirators.

So, all your posts about Garland being indecisive about indicting Trump are, as Shakespeare put it, “sound and fury, signifying nothing”…

[Bayard]

18. TFG's minions will still do anything for him

But, I think the puppet masters are starting to see him as a liability.