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In reply to the discussion: I guess Garland slowly building the case from the bottom up [View all]Mike 03
(18,690 posts)3. I can hardly wait for his "memoirs"
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But who is going to print the history books of this topic? Bezos? NYTimes? Washington Post?
LiberalArkie
Nov 2024
#39
I don't know about that. The Federalist Society member Garland could very well be a deeply burrowed rethug mole.
brush
Nov 2024
#134
I agree with that. SC Smith I'd say was trying to do his best to try and convict trump. Garland IMO nerver was...
brush
Nov 2024
#141
Garland won't release anything. Wouldn't want to embarrass any Republicans.
Lonestarblue
Nov 2024
#5
Well, I can't rule it out but I've seen little that couldn't just be what would pass for random yahoos taking charge
TheKentuckian
Nov 2024
#137
I regret believing Marcy Wheeler's bullshit. Emptywheel had no special insight, no experience, no relevant expertise.
thebigidea
Nov 2024
#60
As angry as most of us are, can you imagine how Jack Smith feels? A waste of his last two years?
hlthe2b
Nov 2024
#7
Merrick is a fraud. When history called for a hero - we got... a zero. Oh well! RIP rule of law.
Blues Heron
Nov 2024
#8
Garland spent vast resources protecting billionaires from bitcoin theft and TSF from Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
usonian
Nov 2024
#9
No DOJ protocol against prosecuting the relative of a sitting president
Fiendish Thingy
Nov 2024
#75
Sticking to "appropriate" and "norms" when being attacked is where Garland leadership failed, you hit back hard and ...
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#89
it's not as if the person Garland was prosecuting was his boss' rival in the election
bigtree
Nov 2024
#108
still bringing fact-free derisions about a legal process you haven't bothered to understand
bigtree
Nov 2024
#81
We understand we're fucked and Garland could've done something to start a special council sooner all the rest is words
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#90
Don't agree on principle but its not my assertion a SC would have made evidence available any sooner.
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#98
Trump was not the only SC target, I don't know what you're position is here. Garland could've called for SC on day ...
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#100
There was enough empirical evidence against Benedict Donald to start special counsel on day one.
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#88
You could've just said "... I agree..." and left it at that. The rest of your words don't address my assertion.
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#92
Your first sentence would've been 100% improvement and a good justification for SC on day 1... We agree
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#125
Biden and Garland's meritless, delusional faith in institutions they were part of
RockRaven
Nov 2024
#18
But Marcy Emptywheel says there are secret and magical things happening!!1! Patience, Grasshopper!!1!
Scrivener7
Nov 2024
#27
Yup, for trump not to good for the country, but, the case is not to political, thankfully.
republianmushroom
Nov 2024
#30
I think you're wrong on at least one point - Manchin and others wouldn't have voted for changing the Supreme Court
groundloop
Nov 2024
#43
Merrick Garland will go down in history as a spineless AG who allowed the country to go fascist. n/t
PatrickforB
Nov 2024
#37
Even if he isn't declared a spineless AG (but he will be), and the fact that he's prosecuted give or take 1000 other
SWBTATTReg
Nov 2024
#53
Most of the defense of Garland is filibuster and sophistry that doesn't address the issue that Garland *COULD* have ...
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#94
That's a whole other discussion, right now I'm normalizing the FACT that Garland could've started the SC on day one.
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#104
I find the timidity, and rolling over to be the worst gut punch for many of us , and for Lady Liberty.
Evolve Dammit
Nov 2024
#44
She is a clickbait CT kook and should be ignored by any serious person. Nt
Fiendish Thingy
Nov 2024
#116
Wheeler has zero fucking credibility. Zero. She hasn't called a damn thing correctly in years.
thebigidea
Nov 2024
#62
He was building a very limited case by only targeting the pawns in the Trump criminal operation.
jalan48
Nov 2024
#103
I suspect we are living in a time that history will remember as the worst in our country's history.
Scrivener7
Nov 2024
#122