Merrick Garland was complicit.

[LuvLoogie]

He was an institution that rolled over. He knew what the people behind trump were up to.

[LearnedHand]

1. Gods I'm so sick of that quisling's name

I hope to see the "merrickgarland" (a traitorous delaying tactic) on a Wikipedia page hyperlinked from the quisling page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling

[Silent Type]

2. I suspect he and Biden knew what a chitshow it would be. Thinking courts would stop trump,

was a mistake.

[NewHendoLib]

3. Very weak person. And a Republican, so should not be a surprise

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Funny how nobody ever seems to claim the Roberts court was complicit

They Gotta lay all the blame on Milquetoast Merrick, cuz that requires the minimum critical thinking skills.

[Ponietz]

9. Cheap shot

Garland criticism is principled and abundant — you’ll find gigabytes in DU archives if you’d care to search.

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. That's my point precisely

Garland criticism is abundant, even though it is based on falsehoods, myths and misinformation.

Criticism of the real, actual villains of the story of how Trump escaped Justice, the Roberts court, is almost non-existent on DU.

[Ponietz]

16. Principled criticism doesn't merit insulting the intelligence of those who disagree with you

We have/had no control over Roberts, Wray, McConnell or any of the other ratfuckers. We did have control of the DOJ and fucked it up by ourselves. Own goals are killing us and DU IS the place to point that out.

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. Criticism based on falsehoods, myths, misinformation and flat out ignorance deserves ridicule

No matter how principled the critics are.

Here’s a repost of a post from veteran DU’er bigtree that uses verifiable facts (as opposed to subjective opinions) to smash the myths and misinformation that portrays Garland as the villain who “fucked up” the investigation:

Big tree refutation of Garland bashing:

a baldfaced lie that DOJ just went after 'low level insurrectionists'
Reply to gab13by13 (Original post)
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 07:40 AM
...no matter how many times people repeat this. 

Politico: Prosecutors eyed obstruction charges months before Jack Smith took over Trump case 
A newly unsealed court document underscores the Justice Department’s long pursuit of evidence to support the obstruction allegations now lodged against Trump. 

A newly unsealed court document underscores the Justice Department’s long pursuit of evidence to support the obstruction allegations now lodged against Trump. 
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/19/obstruction-charges-jack-smith-trump-case-00132500 

Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote 


Before Jack Smith was appointed, Merrick Garland:


Seized John Eastman's phone

Seized Jeffrey Clark's phone

Seized Scott Perry's emails 

Seized Eastman's emails 

Seized Epshteyn's phone

Seized Mike Lindell's phone

Seized Mike Roman's phone

Seized Scott Perry's phone

Got Kash Patel's testimony 

Appointed Windom

Appointed Cooney 

Subpoenaed the fraudulent electors

Subpoenaed 7 state's election officials

Subpoenaed Sidney's PAC 

Subpoenaed Rudy

Opened IG probe into Clark

Opened IG probe into DoJ response to 1/6 

Negotiated subpoena for Meadows

Battled the 11th circuit for classified docs 

Subpoenaed trump for classified docs 

Subpoenaed trump for surveillance video

Executed a search warrant on trump

Convicted Bannon of contempt

Indicted Navarro for contempt

Subpoenaed the speakers from 1/6

Subpoenaed the organizers of 1/6 

Secured seditious conspiracy convictions

Subpoenaed records for any member of congress involved in 1/6 

Subpoenaed info on Jenna Ellis 

Secured testimony from Mark Short

Secured testimony from Jacob Engel

Secured testimony from

Secured testimony from Cippilone

Subpoenaed info on trump's PACs

Won privilege battles for Short, Engel, and the Pats 

Negotiated for Pence's subpoena 

Seized the phone records of Meadows

Secured the 1/6 committee transcripts 

Subpoenaed 7 secretaries of state 






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...all of that laying the groundwork for the man Merrick Garland appointed, Jack Smith, to secure the testimony of principles like Pence today.

NYT from Nov. '22:

Thomas Windom, one of the lead investigators examining the efforts to overturn the election, reached out to Mr. Pence’s team in the weeks before Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed a special counsel on Friday to oversee the Jan. 6 investigation and a separate inquiry into Mr. Trump’s handling of classified documents, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. Mr. Garland has said that the appointment of the special counsel, Jack Smith, will not slow the investigation.

Officials at the Justice Department declined to comment. A spokesman for Mr. Pence also declined to comment.

The discussions about questioning Mr. Pence are said to be in their early stages. Mr. Pence has not been subpoenaed, and the process could take months, because Mr. Trump can seek to block, or slow, his testimony by trying to invoke executive privilege.


emptywheel @emptywheel
Gonna reup this bc there is a flood of ignorant bullshit about what the investigation took to get to this weeks' indictment. Here are the accounts that Rudy claimed (if you can believe him) he conducted his coup plotting on.



emptywheel @emptywheel · 21h
This alleged conspiracy was conducted BY LAWYERS using ENCRYPTED APPs. If you read something about how long this investigation took that doesn't address those two facts, you can use it as kitty litter.

emptywheel @emptywheel · 21h
When a conspiracy is conducted BY LAWYERS on ENCRYPTED APPS, it means you have to go phone by phone (bc that's how you get the encrypted apps), and for each one conduct a privilege review.


emptywheel @emptywheel · 21h
We know the phones used in this conspiracy were seized on the following dates: Rudy: April 28, 2021 John Eastman: June 2022 Jeffrey Clark: June 2022 Boris Epshteyn: September 2022 Mike Roman: September 2022 Each phone of a lawyer will take AT LEAST 6 months to review.

emptywheel @emptywheel 21h
Rudy's privilege review, which was set into motion on LITERALLY Lisa Monaco's first day on the job, took 9 months. DOJ successfully got EVERYTHING reviewed, meaning when J6 got PC for it, the content was ready.

*Monaco tasked Thomas Windom in Fall 2021, a little-known federal prosecutor, to oversee key elements of the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.


emptywheel @emptywheel · 21h
We can't prove when Jan6 got Rudy's January 6 content, but there are at least 5,000 items from the phone seized on April 28, 2021 that were from Jan6 conspiring. Bc DOJ did a Special Master, it appears Rudy failed to invoke privilege over anything that was not his own lawyer.

emptywheel @emptywheel · 21h
And as this post lays out, not only was DOJ taking overt steps in the fake electors plot b4 J6C's first hearing, but their FOCUS was different--and in a way that might suggest DOJ's leads came from Rudy's phones.

“Nonzero:” On Evidence-Based Investigations and Rudy Giuliani’s Devices June 26, 2023, by emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/06/26/nonzero-on-evidence-based-investigations-and-rudy-giulianis-devices/


emptywheel @emptywheel · 21h
So JUST on the fact that this conspiracy was committed BY LAWYERS using ENCRYPTED APPS explains a great deal of what has taken 2 years. Now add in EP claims. It took from 7/22 to 4/27/23 to work through all the high level EP witnesses.

emptywheel @emptywheel 21h
Also: The investigation into Sidney Powell, CC3, was overt by September 2021.

No idea when or if they got her phone. But the investigation into her was literally overt before J6C issued their first subpoena.


emptywheel @emptywheel · 21h
Here's a list (as of January) of all the OTHER lawyers who were witnesses and subjects in this investigation. The list is now over 30. Again, with each one, you have to do privilege reviews.




emptywheel @emptywheel 19h
Incidentally if you think 6 months for a lawyer phone review is a lot, consider James O'Keefe. The review of HIS phone has been going on 636 days, since November 5, 2021.

thread unrolled here:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1687118267704651777.html

[Ponietz]

20. These posts are unconvincing and carry no special weight with me

Especially Empty Wheel. So Garland did some stuff (much of it untimely and he also set Joe up with the Hur bullshit. So what? I presume he watched the insurrection on live TV like the rest of us. An intelligent person doesn’t start from the bottom up, but cuts the head off the snake. Peru can do it. Brazil can. South Korea, too. Tons of experts agree. Just type “Merrick Garland weak” into your browser search engine. Here’s a sampling:

The Hill
https://thehill.com › opinion › judiciary › 4054455-the-utter-failure-of-merrick-garland
The utter failure of Merrick Garland - The Hill
Jun 17, 2023The failure of Merrick Garland is becoming more and more evident by the day. The public continues to distrust the Department, and his assurances of fair dealing have been overwhelmingly rejected ...

The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com › article › 179106 › merrick-garland-hur-report-biden
Merrick Garland Is Too Weak to Be Attorney General
Feb 17, 2024When Merrick Garland was sworn in as attorney general in March 2021, he promised to restore the Justice Department's reputation after it was left tainted by the corruptions of William Barr,

AP News
https://apnews.com › article › merrick-garland-attorney-general-justice-department-trump-60c88659f66e25605459f1ebb2689c35
Merrick Garland exits with his record under scrutiny and the Justice ...
"Merrick Garland has not, I think, been a very effective public defender of the integrity and impartiality of the Department of Justice," Andrew Kent, a Fordham University law school professor, said in an email. Given the issues the department faced, Garland needed "to explain to the public more frequently and more specifically how the ...

The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com › p › merrick-garland-and-the-logic-of
Merrick Garland and the Logic of Failure
Jan 15, 2025Garland's DoJ prosecuted Donald Trump in two separate cases; neither was brought to fruition; Trump was then elected president. If one of the stated goals of the Department of Justice is to uphold the rule of law and one of the unstated goals is to prevent criminals from becoming the chief executor of the law, then yeah: Garland might be the ...

The Nation
https://www.thenation.com › article › politics › the-country-is-paying-for-garlands-timidity-toward-trump
The Country Is Paying for Merrick Garland's Failure to Prosecute Trump
Merrick Garland either knows all this, or he is a drooling fool. And I don't think he's a fool. Indeed, when this all comes to naught, when Trump strides across the stage at the Republican ...

POLITICO
https://www.politico.com › news › 2024 › 02 › 09 › white-house-frustration-with-garland-grows-00140813
White House frustration with Garland grows - POLITICO
Feb 9, 2024Joe Biden has told aides and outside advisers that Attorney General Merrick Garland did not do enough to rein in a special counsel report stating that the president had diminished mental faculties ...

The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com › newsletters › archive › 2021 › 11 › why-isnt-merrick-garland-locking-them-up › 676703
Why Isn't Merrick Garland Locking Them Up? - The Atlantic
Merrick Garland has gone from a beloved almost-Supreme Court justice to an annoying speed bump who seems unwilling to stand up for democracy and the rule of law. Maybe Garland thinks that ...

POLITICO
https://www.politico.com › news › 2022 › 01 › 04 › ruben-gallego-merrick-garland-capitol-attack-526480
Gallego: Garland 'extremely weak' on Jan. 6 cases - POLITICO
Jan 5, 2022"I think Merrick Garland has been extremely weak, and I think there should be a lot more of the organizers of Jan. 6 that should be arrested by now," Gallego said in an interview on CNN.

POLITICO
https://www.politico.com › news › 2024 › 06 › 04 › merrick-garland-testify-congress-washington-00161657
Merrick Garland was Biden's consensus pick. Now everyone hates him.
Jun 5, 2024Merrick Garland has staked his career at the Department of Justice on being an independent attorney general. He has tapped three special counsels to investigate President Joe Biden — the man who ...

Slate Magazine
https://slate.com › news-and-politics › 2016 › 03 › why-merrick-garland-was-a-bad-choice-despite-his-merit.html
Why Merrick Garland was a bad choice despite his merit. - Slate Magazine
The Breakfast Table Why Merrick Garland was a bad choice despite his merit. Entry 6: OK, Garland is an amazingly qualified, brilliant judge. He's still a bad choice.

And besides, I took issue with your CHEAP SHOT that the OP lacks critical thinking skills. I respect you for your opinion on Garland, but that crack was out of line. Ridicule is trolling. Have a nice evening.

[Fiendish Thingy]

21. Those are all subjective opinion pieces

I posted verifiable facts, some including the timeline proving no feet were dragged, no hands were sat on, but plenty of obstruction from the criminals and their lawyers, and delay from the courts was encountered.

[Ponietz]

22. Whatever

[Oopsie Daisy]

11. Agree.

[Skittles]

12. Garland fucking SUCKED

and so does Roberts

both WEAK and IEFFECTIVE

[B.See]

19. "Funny how nobody ever seems to claim the Roberts court was complicit." Nobody??

Seems I can recall having a thing or two to say about it.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. He was not the man for the job.

His reference points were all old school. Which is to drag your feet and protect the institutions, regardless of what political party is in control.

[Hassler]

6. As usual the real villains McConnell

And the SCROTUS get a pass. Garland could have done cartwheels in court and it would not have mattered. Has everyone already forgotten that the SCROTUS 6 and gave him immunity? Had Garland been quicker they still would have given him immunity. And McTurtle had the chance to do the right thing at impeachment 2.0, and didn't. He let Krasnov start his campaign for 2024 instead.

[senseandsensibility]

7. Well, Garland can still be complicit without

letting those other parties off the hook. IMO this was a multi-institutional f*$$#ck up with more than enough blame to go around.

[elocs]

8. Remember: Merrick Garland was chosen by Joe Biden to be the Attorney General.

One of the worst choices a Democratic president has ever made.

[Fiendish Thingy]

15. I can think of plenty of worse Dem AG's

Garland isn’t even in the top 3 worst Dem AG’s.

[MichMan]

17. Senate confirmed him 70-30

[Ponietz]

10. I'm thinking he gambled on Joe's reelection

reasoning that convicting and jailing Lump in Joe’s first term would boomerang if the Democrats failed to hold power. Complicit? Sort of. But I also think Garland was damaged goods from the beginning and it was a monumental miscalculation to name him AG.

[LuvLoogie]

14. I think he was calculating Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation control.

He saw the fascist dominoes and didn't want to have to present all the evidence against Trump in court.

Trump wanted the J6ers and their ilk as deputies, not suspects. Garland knew this.

Haven't the GOPs investigated every Democratic AG since Reno? I don't remember any GOP scrutiny of Garland.