Merrick Garland urges prosecutors to protect DOJ's mission in first comments since Trump picked Matt Gaetz

[Hotler]

to succeed him.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, nearing the end of his tenure leading the Justice Department, told career prosecutors Monday that they are the “backbone” of the Justice Department and urged them to continue to “uphold the rule of law.”

In his first public comments since President-elect Donald Trump selected former Rep. Matt Gaetz as his pick to run the Justice Department, Garland told prosecutors at the Southern District of New York to continue to protect the department’s “mission.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/merrick-garland-urges-prosecutors-to-protect-doj-s-mission-in-first-comments-since-trump-picked-matt-gaetz-to-succeed-him/ar-AA1um2WO?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=918d7c2763d14537f08b837ad6658f32&ei=32

[Autumn]

1. OFFS.

[gab13by13]

6. Nice, Do as I say, not as I do speech.

[yardwork]

14. +1

[Autumn]

21. To make it clear, do what I didn't want to do.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Right after his speech:

[NEOH]

3. Damn Milquetoast :( nt

[gab13by13]

4. This better be The Onion.

[Otto_Harper]

5. The primary mission for the DOJ

based on empirical observation, is to sit there, do nothing and sleep while the US is conquered by foreigners.

[gab13by13]

7. You know,

Musk has top security clearances and it is fact that Musk speaks with Putin, and nary a visit from the FBI.

[hadEnuf]

9. Open treason is a thing now.

It's chic. (only for MAGAs though)

[intheflow]

12. And domestic enemies. n/t

[TBF]

33. DOJ's mission: protect capital. nt

[The Unmitigated Gall]

8. Yeah, Merrick.

You’re work is done there, I guess.

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. Like moths to a flame...nt

[Blues Heron]

11. backbone! lol!

excuse me while i puke

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. You had one job!

[yardwork]

16. Turns out it was too hard for him.

As much as I loathe Gorsuch, I now believe Garland would probably have been almost as bad, and we'd be stuck with him forever. Now at least maybe he'll slink away and we never have to talk about him again.

[Intractable]

24. I suspect we'd be as disappointed in him as an SC justice as we are as AG.

But saying he'd be as almost as bad as Neil Gorsuch, is ... well, that's just pretty damn bad ain't it?

[yardwork]

25. Yeah, that was a little hyperbole, I admit.

[Kid Berwyn]

15. "No man is above the law!"

Except the king, right Vlad?

[republianmushroom]

17. Yes, you must defend, with blessings from the SCOUS, trump for four more years.

Merrick the Meek, thank you.
45 months and counting.

[MagickMuffin]

18. The lead "backbone" has no spine

He’ll be known as the USAG who was partisan to the party who tried to overthrow our government and he did nothing for protecting our Democracy.

[BannonsLiver]

19. "Uphold the rule of law, or, in other words, don't do nothing like I did for 4 years"

[UTUSN]

22. DUer Loupe Garoue's link re: GARLAND is enlightening on this subject.

(Me, having championed GARLAND ever since Senator Turtle torpedoed him: )

********QUOTE:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219737548
This might explain Merrick Garland's seeming incompetence
This writer says it is a cover for deep corruption and she brings receipts.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahkendzior/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state?r=d569l&utm_medium=ios

[Think. Again.]

34. The substack article linked above...

...is remarkable, thorough, and scary as hell.

[Emile]

23. to continue to "uphold the rule of law."

LOL

[Callie1979]

26. Oh. Ok.

[Think. Again.]

27. ...

[Irish_Dem]

28. We certainly know what the DOJ's mission happens to be.

Garland has made his mission in life quite clear.

[Botany]

29. Son of a bitch could have prosecuted the people involved in J-6th, the stolen top secret documents, and

Trump’s violations of the Hatch Act too. He didn’t and America is now truly fucked.

He is as useful as tits on a boar hog, I swear it.

[Think. Again.]

36. oh, he did his job perfectly, and was extremely useful to his bosses.

They might even let him give another speech at the federalist society, just to say "thank you".

[travelingthrulife]

30. 'Urges them'

Seriously.

[yaesu]

31. Is this a rerun of Mr Rogers Neighborhood? nt

[Wicked Blue]

32. Garland's mission: stalling and hedging nt

[TheKentuckian]

35. The "mission" being what? It has looong looked to be the protection of white wingers

and hammering the left, black people, and of course the poors.

What a joke of an anchor around our necks this mealymouthed Hyacinth Bucket has been.

He has been quite effective in completely laying waste to my last dregs of faith and hope in what is clearly nothing but an Injustice system.

Goodbye weaksauce Jeff Sessions, you did a remarkably poor job.

[Think. Again.]

38. He did his job perfectly, and the result proves that.

[BeyondGeography]

37. Nothing says failure more than the fatal attraction of Obama/Biden to Merrick Garland

He was an SC pick who excited no one, but was supposed to be an olive branch to Republicans post-Scalia. And how did that work out? Not only did we get stiffed, Garland as a moderate older white guy was of no political value in the 2016 election. And Garland becomes Gorsuch.

Then comes Joe Biden to the White House in the aftermath of a failed coup by Donald Trump with visions of bipartisan comity dancing in his head. Who better to reassure moderate Republicans (between both Houses you could count them on one hand) than Merrick Garland? Or whatever his reasoning was. Together they would go out of their way not to get in the way of the restoration of Trump, not until it was too late. And Trump becomes President.

It’s the end of an era. Hopefully.

[Cirsium]

39. Disgusting

All of the abuse that critics of Garland have taken from fellow Democrats...

A successful DOJ is one that stems the growing lawlessness. That is the only meaningful criteria.

A successful administration that runs on stopping the insurrectionists and Nazis is one that stops the insurrectionists and Nazis. That is the only meaningful criteria.

A successful campaign is the one that wins. That is the only meaningful criteria.

We can support Democrats, we can vote Democratic, we can fight for Democrats, we can defend Democrats. I have done all of that for decades. But damn, at some point the proof is in the pudding.

[roscoeroscoe]

41. JUST GO AWAY, GARLAND

YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE AND NOTHING YOU DO WILL FIX IT NOW, DUMBSHIT

[The Third Doctor]

42. Fuck em

[The Third Doctor]

43. He upheld the rule of law with certain people.

Others are above the law due to "politics". Either you enforce the law or you don't.

[ecstatic]

44. More worried about protecting the doj

than enforcing the law equally. It's sickening and very upsetting. If he was upholding the law, both gaetz and trump would be in prison right now.