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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMerrick Garland urges prosecutors to protect DOJ's mission in first comments since Trump picked Matt Gaetz
to succeed him.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, nearing the end of his tenure leading the Justice Department, told career prosecutors Monday that they are the backbone of the Justice Department and urged them to continue to uphold the rule of law.
In his first public comments since President-elect Donald Trump selected former Rep. Matt Gaetz as his pick to run the Justice Department, Garland told prosecutors at the Southern District of New York to continue to protect the departments mission.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/merrick-garland-urges-prosecutors-to-protect-doj-s-mission-in-first-comments-since-trump-picked-matt-gaetz-to-succeed-him/ar-AA1um2WO?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=918d7c2763d14537f08b837ad6658f32&ei=32
gab13by13
(25,290 posts)Autumn
(46,395 posts)Dennis Donovan
(26,243 posts)NEOH
(93 posts)gab13by13
(25,290 posts)Otto_Harper
(744 posts)based on empirical observation, is to sit there, do nothing and sleep while the US is conquered by foreigners.
gab13by13
(25,290 posts)Musk has top security clearances and it is fact that Musk speaks with Putin, and nary a visit from the FBI.
hadEnuf
(2,748 posts)It's chic. (only for MAGAs though)
intheflow
(28,966 posts)TBF
(34,421 posts)The Unmitigated Gall
(4,547 posts)Youre work is done there, I guess.
Fiendish Thingy
(18,611 posts)Blues Heron
(6,163 posts)excuse me while i puke
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,718 posts)yardwork
(64,465 posts)As much as I loathe Gorsuch, I now believe Garland would probably have been almost as bad, and we'd be stuck with him forever. Now at least maybe he'll slink away and we never have to talk about him again.
Intractable
(546 posts)But saying he'd be as almost as bad as Neil Gorsuch, is ... well, that's just pretty damn bad ain't it?
yardwork
(64,465 posts)Kid Berwyn
(18,085 posts)Except the king, right Vlad?
republianmushroom
(17,808 posts)Merrick the Meek, thank you.
45 months and counting.
MagickMuffin
(17,155 posts)Hell be known as the USAG who was partisan to the party who tried to overthrow our government and he did nothing for protecting our Democracy.
BannonsLiver
(18,040 posts)jfz9580m
(15,501 posts)(So much going on..)
But I am here. He seems to have been awful..
UTUSN
(72,508 posts)(Me, having championed GARLAND ever since Senator Turtle torpedoed him: )
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219737548
This might explain Merrick Garland's seeming incompetence
This writer says it is a cover for deep corruption and she brings receipts.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahkendzior/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state?r=d569l&utm_medium=ios
Think. Again.
(18,285 posts)...is remarkable, thorough, and scary as hell.
Emile
(30,076 posts)LOL
Think. Again.
(18,285 posts)Irish_Dem
(58,291 posts)Garland has made his mission in life quite clear.
Botany
(72,535 posts)Trumps violations of the Hatch Act too. He didnt and America is now truly fucked.
He is as useful as tits on a boar hog, I swear it.
Think. Again.
(18,285 posts)They might even let him give another speech at the federalist society, just to say "thank you".
travelingthrulife
(796 posts)Seriously.
yaesu
(8,258 posts)Wicked Blue
(6,689 posts)TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)and hammering the left, black people, and of course the poors.
What a joke of an anchor around our necks this mealymouthed Hyacinth Bucket has been.
He has been quite effective in completely laying waste to my last dregs of faith and hope in what is clearly nothing but an Injustice system.
Goodbye weaksauce Jeff Sessions, you did a remarkably poor job.
Think. Again.
(18,285 posts)BeyondGeography
(40,026 posts)He was an SC pick who excited no one, but was supposed to be an olive branch to Republicans post-Scalia. And how did that work out? Not only did we get stiffed, Garland as a moderate older white guy was of no political value in the 2016 election. And Garland becomes Gorsuch.
Then comes Joe Biden to the White House in the aftermath of a failed coup by Donald Trump with visions of bipartisan comity dancing in his head. Who better to reassure moderate Republicans (between both Houses you could count them on one hand) than Merrick Garland? Or whatever his reasoning was. Together they would go out of their way not to get in the way of the restoration of Trump, not until it was too late. And Trump becomes President.
Its the end of an era. Hopefully.
Cirsium
(890 posts)All of the abuse that critics of Garland have taken from fellow Democrats...
A successful DOJ is one that stems the growing lawlessness. That is the only meaningful criteria.
A successful administration that runs on stopping the insurrectionists and Nazis is one that stops the insurrectionists and Nazis. That is the only meaningful criteria.
A successful campaign is the one that wins. That is the only meaningful criteria.
We can support Democrats, we can vote Democratic, we can fight for Democrats, we can defend Democrats. I have done all of that for decades. But damn, at some point the proof is in the pudding.
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roscoeroscoe
(1,624 posts)YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE AND NOTHING YOU DO WILL FIX IT NOW, DUMBSHIT
The Third Doctor
(381 posts)The Third Doctor
(381 posts)Others are above the law due to "politics". Either you enforce the law or you don't.
ecstatic
(34,411 posts)than enforcing the law equally. It's sickening and very upsetting. If he was upholding the law, both gaetz and trump would be in prison right now.