Merrick Garland: What would you say you do here?

right but Bannon is the canary, the guy hadn’t been working in the white house for years, he has zero legitimate claim to protection under executive privilege even if trump could assert it, if Garland doesn’t go after him he’s not going after anyone.

PapaSmurf · November 10, 2021, 9:12pm

Agree completely, thats why i am frustrated.

Give the pos a chance to save the country he claimed did so much for him, and he is gonna choke.

Any chance Biden replaces him?

Unless he’s just colluding with the republicans, why wouldn’t he appoint a special prosecutor and put the heat on someon else?

Riverman · November 10, 2021, 9:21pm

It’s best to make peace with the absolute certainty that there will be zero accountability for anyone.

PapaSmurf · November 12, 2021, 9:28pm

Not Sucking.

Trolly · November 12, 2021, 9:30pm

Eh, I’ll believe it when he’s under arrest.

j8i3h289dn3x7 · November 12, 2021, 11:35pm

Sucking slightly less.

Cactus · November 13, 2021, 4:46pm

I’m not overly optimistic, but it’s my understanding that no one has ever been indicted for contempt of congress while asserting executive privilege before. It’s possible the DOJ had to do some extra research to ensure the contempt charges would stick

pvn · November 13, 2021, 4:47pm

has anyone ever tried asserting executive privilege when they didn’t actually have that privilege before?

Trolly · November 13, 2021, 5:13pm

Nixon gave it a shot.

I assume the way this plays out is Bannon claims exec privilege, Harvard lawbros argue for months over whether he can do that, and SCOTUS decides 5-4 that Bannon doesn’t have to say anything because of muh executive privilege.

j8i3h289dn3x7 · November 13, 2021, 5:59pm

Added wrinkle that this is a criminal case so in order to actually be convicted all 12 members of the jury have to not be totally confused by executive privilege.