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In reply to the discussion: Thank you, Merrick Garland! After being refused a hearing as USSC nominee [View all]Beastly Boy
(13,283 posts)14. He certainly did!
Garland was sworn in on 3/11, 2021 (https://www.justice.gov/ag/bio/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland)
By April 16, a mere 36 days after him taking office, DOJ reported:
Arrests made: Over 410 defendants have been arrested in at least 45 states (this includes those charged in both District and Superior Court).
This works out to be an average of more than four defendants arrested every single day, including weekends, since January 6th.
Criminal charges:
Over 100 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees, including more than 35 that have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon.
Approximately 140 police officers were assaulted January 6th at the Capitol including about 80 U.S. Capitol Police and about 60 from the Metropolitan Police Department.
Over 350 defendants have been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds.
Over 35 defendants have been charged with entering the Capitol with a dangerous or deadly weapon.
Over 25 defendants have been charged with destruction of government property and 15 other defendants have been charged with theft of government property.
Over 160 defendants have been charged with corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding, or attempting to do so.
About 30 defendants have been charged with conspiracy, either:
(a) conspiracy to obstruct a congressional proceeding,
(b) conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement during a civil disorder,
(c) conspiracy to injury an officer, or (d) some combination of the three.
This works out to be an average of more than four defendants arrested every single day, including weekends, since January 6th.
Criminal charges:
Over 100 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees, including more than 35 that have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon.
Approximately 140 police officers were assaulted January 6th at the Capitol including about 80 U.S. Capitol Police and about 60 from the Metropolitan Police Department.
Over 350 defendants have been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds.
Over 35 defendants have been charged with entering the Capitol with a dangerous or deadly weapon.
Over 25 defendants have been charged with destruction of government property and 15 other defendants have been charged with theft of government property.
Over 160 defendants have been charged with corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding, or attempting to do so.
About 30 defendants have been charged with conspiracy, either:
(a) conspiracy to obstruct a congressional proceeding,
(b) conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement during a civil disorder,
(c) conspiracy to injury an officer, or (d) some combination of the three.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-investigation-resource-page/100-days-january-6th-attack-capitol
Is it your opinion that he should have started 36 days BEFORE he took office?
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Thank you, Merrick Garland! After being refused a hearing as USSC nominee [View all]
Recycle_Guru
Aug 2023
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I am just tired of spoon feeding the facts over and over again, despite them being freely available
Beastly Boy
Aug 2023
#24
Time was of the essence. He could have pursued the big guys and the little guys
Sky Jewels
Aug 2023
#75
no--just that I won't look to him for reasoned approach to this legal issue
Recycle_Guru
Aug 2023
#79
It will not be 'perfect timing' if the trial gets spun out past the election and Trump wins
Celerity
Aug 2023
#15
800 indictments of not Trump is certainly evidence, unless you are stubbornly determined
Beastly Boy
Aug 2023
#45
The indictments filed today were not all all built on the street-rabble indictments n/t
Silent3
Aug 2023
#46
My complaint about Garland and the DoJ is that they weren't working hard enough...
Silent3
Aug 2023
#48
So, in your awkwardly constructed sentence, you DO, ever so evasively, give DOJ credit
Beastly Boy
Aug 2023
#53
I'm not here to praise the DoJ for simply doing their job, but if it makes you feel better...
Silent3
Aug 2023
#58
Interesting you skipped right past the whole "trial" part of our toothless justice system
AZSkiffyGeek
Aug 2023
#71
What makes me feel better is Garlands exemplary and undeniable accomplishments as AG
Beastly Boy
Aug 2023
#68
And I will demonstrate how poor your choices are, wherever and whenever you choose to comment.
Beastly Boy
Aug 2023
#23