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In reply to the discussion: Did Garland just say...? [View all]Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)50. You think the guy who threatened the judge in NJ was a Trumper?
The passage starts at 13:50:
LISTEN THIS TIME:
He refers to this case in particular:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/new-jersey-man-arrested-threatening-kill-federal-judge-2021-11-04/
Nov 4 (Reuters) - A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with threatening to assault and murder a federal judge who was overseeing a lawsuit he had filed, including by telling one of his clerks that he would "put a bullet in the judge's brain."
Federal prosecutors announced the charges against Jonathan Williams, 46, late Wednesday at a time of heightened concern for judges' safety after a disgruntled attorney last year shot and killed the son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in New Jersey and wounded her husband.
That had nothing to do with political orientation.
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No, "VP Harris should have been appointed AG," that would've been a demotion from being a senator.
PunkinPi
Jan 2022
#79
I disagree, He said, We don't care if the threat is made by a liberal or a conservative, all threats
ShazamIam
Jan 2022
#10
He didn't say that, that is how you heard it. I don't like it but understand why he had to say it.
ShazamIam
Jan 2022
#48
I initially cringed (exploded), but then realized if anyone has to thread that needle...
Pacifist Patriot
Jan 2022
#13
He had to address it since conservatives and their media have publicly claimed
ShazamIam
Jan 2022
#32
That is how you see it, you wanted a more divisive partisan kind of statement. I think he made it
ShazamIam
Jan 2022
#47
I think the DOJ is focused on Federal & Congressional law and regulations, the Supreme Court makes
ShazamIam
Jan 2022
#78
Yes, because otherwise it seemed like he was spot on. I guess he was really trying to hit the sweet
LymphocyteLover
Jan 2022
#52
On this site, if I said something threatening or extremely violent, I would expect a
fwvinson
Jan 2022
#75
I was astonished to hear the "both siderism" re: "political violence on both sides."
Grasswire2
Jan 2022
#18
Garland - "Hitler and the Allies need to knock it off. This has nothing to do with politics."
Oneironaut
Jan 2022
#25
He's technically right. One doesn't need to be a Republican to be a White Nationalist.
haele
Jan 2022
#39
The republican party is the political arm of the white nationalist movement.
BaronChocula
Jan 2022
#57
He's blunting the "political persecution" tact they are piling on with. Nt
Baked Potato
Jan 2022
#49
I didn't hear bothsiderism. I heard: "If you think terrorists are all brown & black & non-Christian.
Hekate
Jan 2022
#53
I have not heard it but from your quote I think that he does not want it
question everything
Jan 2022
#54
I hope he didn't get into the ol "there are good people on both sides" bullshit but lets hope he's
yaesu
Jan 2022
#69
Sean Hannity will love that statement. He's always going on about the Antifa and BLM "rioters"
progressoid
Jan 2022
#76