Why Didn't Merrick Garland Prosecute "Individual One."

[gab13by13]

Nicolle Wallace just asked that question to Andrew Weissmann, he didn't know why.

Weissmann said that DOJ did absolutely nothing after Garland took over as AG regarding "individual one." Weissmann also said that because Garland did nothing the statute of limitations has expired for some of the crimes Trump committed in the Stormy Daniels payoff. Remember also that Robert Mueller had all of the ducks lined up for Garland.

I have seen a dozen posts here commenting on why Bill Barr didn't prosecute Trump, but I have been the only person asking why Garland didn't?

Wouldn't it make more sense for the Feds to prosecute Trump for campaign finance crimes seeing as he was running for a federal office?

Same thing is going on right now in Michigan because Garland failed to act on Dana Nessel's criminal referral for the fake electors. She had to do the prosecution herself.

[Fla Dem]

1. I'm sure someone was whispering in his ear trying to avoid the look of political retribution.

Pres Biden has said he does not influence the DOJ,But does that mean there aren't operatives from the administration who had some influence over what was pursued.

[getagrip_already]

2. Doubtful it was the wh.....

More likely it was organic garland backed by doj inertia.

[Think. Again.]

3. Garland seems to...

....think he can pick and choose where Justice in America is applied.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Every AG and US attorney does that, selective prosecution is not unique to Garland. Nt

[Think. Again.]

14. No, not every AG chooses what they personally want to prosecute.

[Fiendish Thingy]

15. Who said anything about personally?

Selective prosecution is about the allocation of resources to cases DOJ has a strong chance of winning, not who the AG personally wants to prosecute.

[gab13by13]

18. There is A journalist on Nicolle now

Who is from Der Spiegel, he said what is going on now could never happen in Germany, he said Trump would be in jail by now.

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. Well, then it must be true. Nt

[Marcuse]

36. The Germans do have some experience with this sort of thing.

[CaptainTruth]

26. Laws are different in Germany & other EU countries.

In some countries I'm familiar with the government MUST bring charges if they believe laws have been broken, there's no prosecutorial discretion allowed. Not so in the US.

[Think. Again.]

20. Yeah, that was obviously not what I meant...

...when I said garland seems to think he can pick and choose how Justice is applied in America.

[chicoescuela]

8. Or he is a coward

[Think. Again.]

11. or a cowardly rightwinger.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Yes not a coward, but complicit.

[Sky Jewels]

23. I have long suspected he is not on our side.

The reason Obama originally picked him for SCOTUS is because Milquetoast Merrick was seen as being palatable to the right and thus more likely to get confirmed. Plus he has a history with the Federalist Society.

[bamagal62]

28. Definitely a coward.

Or worried about his family??? It is quite curious.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. I guess the trial is getting boring so Nicole had to revert back to Garland bashing

Which seems to have triggered your urge to post.

For me, I don’t feel the need to complain after so much great news in the past couple of weeks.

[MOMFUDSKI]

9. Garland has deserved bashing from the

get go and there is no fixing the damage he has done

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. What damage? I don't see any damage

Granted, things aren’t unfolding as fast or in the manner one would hope (which Garland actually had/has minimal control over) but, considering nobody here knew clearly or completely what was happening in the investigations “from the get go”, that lack of information and lack of understanding is hardly a justification for bashing him.

[Think. Again.]

21. Letting the statute of limitations run out...

...on major crimes could be considered "damage".

[Traurigkeit]

24. major crimes - have very long limitations on time

[gab13by13]

12. Garland deserves to be bashed

For not prosecuting individual one.
Did you miss the part that the inaction allowed Trump to skate on crimes because the statute of limitations expired?

Nicolle and Weissmann didn’t bash Garland, they stated facts.

If I had asked why Garland wasn’t prosecuting individual one right after Garland took over, I bet people would have told me, we don’t know what DOJ is doing, it doesn’t leak.

[Sky Jewels]

25. So true.

We were repeatedly assured by DU’s Garland apologists that he was secretly playing 3-dimensional chess behind the scenes.

I knew he was going to fuck is over, and he did.

He’s Biden’s greatest mistake.

[Girard442]

6. When you're a bean counter, you count beans. That's your response to anything.

[Emile]

7. History will not be kind to Merrick Garland.

[progressoid]

10. RWingers use this as an example of why they think this is a bogus trial.

[Earth-shine]

16. I admit it's a null hypothesis, but I think we'd have also have been disappointed in him as an SC justice.

A null hypothesis is one that is never in danger of ever being proven true or false.

Still, I suppose he'd have been better than Kavanaugh. Another null hypothesis.

I think the most disappointing aspect of Garland being AG is that he prevented someone else -- anyone else -- from having the job. Can't prove that either.

[Celerity]

38. I think there is a possibility that Garland as a SCOTUS Justice would have become the reverse image of Souter

Souter was appointed by the older Bush, and moved to the left

Garland may well have moved to the right after Obama nominated him and if he had been approved

[jalan48]

22. I don't think he wanted to be the first AG to prosecute a former President and set a precedent.

He was the wrong person for the job. Harris would have been an excellent AG for this had she not been selected to be VP.

[CaptainTruth]

27. Why don't you ask him & let us know if you get an answer?

Somebody in his office must open the mail & read it.

[republianmushroom]

29. Maybe it would have looked, way to political for the AG ?

Remember there was a meeting just hours after Garland was sworn in.

[Blue Owl]

30. There must be a good reason

[republianmushroom]

33. That is what the cheerleaders keep telling us. There was/is a reason.

[3Hotdogs]

31. Wasn't there another AG who didn't want to prosecute the Bush crime family

Because he wanted to let the country heal?

[BaronChocula]

32. Garland undertook a bottom-up approach to the investigation

And he got stuck at the bottom.

[gab13by13]

34. I bet President Biden was thrilled with Garland

After he picked 2 Trump goons, Weiss and Hur, to investigate him and his son.

[pnwmom]

35. My guess would be that Garland had his hands full investigating Trump for the

other cases -- Jan 6 and Mar a Lago.

[Goodheart]

37. IMO, Garland is Joe Biden's biggest failure as President

He was not a good choice. The rule of law has been diminished because of him.

[D23MIURG23]

39. Because Garland is a coward. n/t