If he had been appointed by Obama, he would have been considered a liberal Justice for all intents and purposes, regardless of what his actual jurisprudence was.
that’s not on obama or garland. that’s our own damn fault for thinking like that
But we are drawing live to a Kavanaugh fatal DUI and Thomas getting Scalia’ed. How would you feel about it then?
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obama’s nomination of garland was infuriating at the time, but for dopes like me who were still shaking off the West Wing theme song it had one useful effect: when the GOP wouldn’t even play along with Garland as a nominee (their absolute best-case nominee from a dem president i.e. a dry white toast establishment dud who was the oldest nominee in history), it was the last & best lesson anyone should have needed that the GOP had abandoned all reason & shame and that the only effective and moral way to deal with them was to go full fucking beast. All this is old news to everyone reading this post. But that vice president Biden and all the satisfied fools somehow still didn’t learn the lesson is outrageous, and pathetic beyond belief, and has enabled immense suffering
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I am fully on team “in on it.” Nobody is that stupid, at least nobody smart enough to become President.
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Imo there are still some scattered true believer american dream Frank Capra types in washington, and obv there are tons of casual racist casual politics country club haircuts who believe in martin sheen and notre dame and the harmonic power of a firm handshake. But yeah, I agree with you; I meant beyond belief literally. Though it’s probably less some grand conspiracy than just the inertia of greed
Article here
LOL at all those angry DOJ stans insisting they were doing so much behind the scenes from the beginning
Still, there were consequences to moving at a slower pace. For many months after the attack, prosecutors did not interview White House aides or other key witnesses, according to authorities and attorneys for some of those who have since been contacted by the special counsel. In that time, communications were put at risk of being lost or deleted and memories left to fade.
No shit? Something called the Department of Justice might not want to give criminals ample time to align stories, destroy communications etc
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Trump literally should have been arrested the night Biden was inaugurated. What a disgrace.
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In a year or so we can expect another article chock full of euphemisms for the cowardice that kept Bedminster from being searched for classified documents
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Garland’s failures even got Laurence Tribe swearing
https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1768970442918769123
eta: “Strike Two for SDNY. It’s as though AG Garland doesn’t give a shit.”
Are there ANY lawbros out there still defending the whole “you’ve got to prosecute the foot soldiers first, then, after allowing for years of evidence destruction and defense preparation, only then do you start to look at the masterminds of the coup. That’s how it’s done because mafia trials, blah blah you don’t understand all the work DOJ does behind the scenes blah blah etc”?
Here we are now: well into 2024 with no criminal trials even starting yet, and Trump/MAGA haven’t even leaned into the “it’s too close to the election now!” BS that somehow still holds sway with DOJ
DOJ lawyers make like 200k and their real goal is to 10x that when they leave for BigLaw. You keep big law happy by dragging shit out for years and never really going for the throat unless the defendant stole from other rich people like Theranos lady and SBF.
Garland is a republican.
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Can’t most DOJ lawyers just go straight to BigLaw without the stop in DOJ?
Those gubmint connections have to be extremely valuable.
I think he’s just extremely naive. Went thru the system by the book with a healthy respect and love for his profession. He naively thought he could restore faith in the DoJ by bending over backwards not to appear partisan. Of course he way over corrected and as a result he in all likelihood will be most responsible for destroying the 250 year experiment
Sure maybe but I just don’t believe anyone is that naive.
I think he was just a coward that didn’t want his family to get murdered.