Maybe Felix Frankfurter is the best historical comp.
These people prosecute drug cartel leaders, gang members and serial killers.
He slow walks everything because he doesn’t want trump prosecuted. It’s the only reasonable explanation.
That too
Yeah definitely more a job for someone like Cassidy Hutchinson or Ruby Freeman
Has Trump named any AG candidates yet? He might just want to keep Garland, he’s done everything Trump wanted. There are a lot of articles out now detailing how fucking disastrous Garland was, I’ll just pick from this one:
Rather than moving quickly to prosecute people — including Trump — for January 6, Garland’s first moves were to take actions that actually favored Trump, all in the name of protecting the institution.
In May 2021, the DOJ went to court to block the release of most of a Bill Barr memo that might have revealed how hard Barr worked to avoid charging Trump with obstruction of justice after the Mueller report. There, Garland was continuing work that had begun under Trump. But while it made sense that Barr would want to block the release of information revealing his role in helping Trump, it made no sense for Garland to want the same.
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Garland also moved quickly to defend Trump against defamation claims by E. Jean Carroll, brought after Trump claimed she made up her accusation of sexual assault to sell books. The DOJ filed a brief substituting the government as the defendant for Trump so it could argue that Trump’s defamation of Carroll was done in the scope of his employment as president, which would likely have resulted in the case getting dismissed.
Quickly jumping to the defense of Trump, even when he’s out of office? CHECK
And don’t forget how swiftly Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate President Biden’s retention of classified material. In early November 2022, the White House voluntarily disclosed that some classified documents had been found at Biden’s think tank. The FBI opened an investigation five days later, and Garland raced to name a special counsel, appointing Robert Hur in January 2023.
Quickly jumping to action to investigate a Biden? CHECK
the ridiculously aggressive pursuit of Hunter Biden, naming a special counsel and ultimately successfully prosecuting the president’s son for tax evasion and lying on a federal form to obtain a gun.
Quickly prosecuting and convicting a Biden? CHECK
While Garland couldn’t move fast enough to protect the DOJ and to aggressively pursue the Biden family to show his evenhandedness, he didn’t get around to naming Jack Smith as a special prosecutor until November 2022, nearly two years after the insurrection. By that time, it was likely already too late. This is true even if Smith had not run into unexpected obstacles, such as Trump winning over the Supreme Court with an absurd argument that he was basically wholly immune from criminal charges.
One the other hand, not doing a fucking thing to even investigate Trump until it was obviously, OBVIOUSLY way too late? CHECK
Trump couldn’t have asked for a better AG the last four years. A historic disgrace. Shame on Merrick Garland, a weak man significantly responsible for untold future suffering.
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So glad he got effed out of the SC.