too late for that now. they are still stooges and totally replaceable.

drop the charges and publish the report. immediately.

like robert shaw and richard dreyfuss sitting on 1/2 a boat bragging that the remoras are nibbling while jaws is about to make another pass.

note to garland : you are not helping your own case by protecting trump. it did not help comey, wray, barr, sessions or any others who did his dirty work. you are on kash patel's list either way, so publish the damn report.

so that he has an excuse to not release the Smith report.

Just like Garland used his pyramid strategy as cover to not investigate Trump and his inner circle until it was too late.

Blaming the Supreme Court is a cop out. If Garland had acted from the onset, the situation, the climate would have been much different. If Garland would have indicted people like Ken Chesebro and Marl Meadows and Kash Patel, early on, it would have been much harder for the Supreme Court to intervene. People who blame the Supreme Court instead of Garland are simply making up a possible scenario that may have not happened.

pointing to a few stuffed remora on his wall and talking about the "big shark who got away" is no way to spend your life in guantanamo bay.

this trial should have been wrapped up before the 2022 mid terms - fast tracked in every court.

well, i'll shut up. i've had enough hides on this subject

my next challenge is to jack smith - a guy who is literally in exile until or if ever trump leaves office. release the damn report. don't even say you did not take a copy out with you. release the damn thing.

that without JUSTICE, these institutions don't mean jack squat?

That is all

There appears to be a lot slithering, oozing, wimpish cowering, and sniveling going on behind the scenes. All this wormtongue shit could really piss a fella off.

and have been wrong for ages.

how high all this corruption reaches............and they are all laughing at how gullible we all are, and how simple it all was.........

Neither of Jack Smith's reports will be released and Trump's DOJ will delete them.


-- Smith's report of his investigation into Trump's Jan 6 responsibility
-- Smith's report of his investigation into Trump's theft of highly classified material and possible/probable revealing of that material to foreign governments or individuals.

Neither of these reports and the evidence behind them will ever be released. Unless some brave person(s) in DOJ leak them, it's over.

Garland is a failure and we should sing that refrain from the rooftops forever.

On the day after Trump is inaugurated, I intend to send letters to editors at WashPost, my local papers, major papers in VA and MD and I encourage everyone else to do the same nationwide. Most of them will not be published but enough will be. We need to keep it up, reminding the country of Garland's failure to protect the Constitution and rule of law. Biden should bear some fault also -- he appointed Garland and could have replaced him with a pit bull dog of an AG at any time but he elected to be the old-line institutionalist that he and Garland are.

For whatever freaking reason, Garland gave the Smith reports to Trump and his lawyers. No fucking wonder they fought like hell to keep them from the public.

Garland may also release one or both reports and may make them so highly redacted to hide all of the good shit, just like Bill Barr did.

Garland is Bill Barr 2.0.

WASF

to make sure these reports are preserved to be released sooner or later. He may not be willing to do a Daniel Ellsberg (which would be suicide in this environment) but a guy like that doesn't dedicate himself to something so important to never have it see the light of day. Like the Humphrey Bogart character in Casablanca: he understands that what is contained in those reports is bigger than the few lives directly involved. He knows what is at stake.

Trump should just keep Garland as Attorney General. Or hire him as his personal attorney. After all . . .

he nominates Cannon for one of the seats, which will surely soon be vacated by Sammy or Clarence, I wouldn't be the least surprised if he nominates Garland for the next opening.

While the Orange Turd may never be held to account for "election interference" by hiding hush money payments, "mishandling" Top Secret and Sensitive Defense Information, "stealing" a presidential election, "hiding" money from various banks and the taxman, plus who knows what high crimes and misdemeanors else, he needs to recognized in one important area that has not been addressed by Special Counsel or the investigative units of mainstream media:

As pee-resident, Trump represented the most successful spy operation of all time: Putin’s insertion of an active agent into the Oval Office.



Unretouched photo in which then-President Donald Trump sends former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin a conspiratorial wink.

He’ll never be held accountable for any of that either…. the world is really upside down.

... and irretrievably impossible to to rationalize the treachery and cowardice that is virtually imbedded in the DNA of a certain party who had the power and wherewithal to effect the rescue of America's credibility from the blood-soaked jaws of Republicanism... but chose not to, because HE didn't want to appear "partisan".

There should be consequences.

For the charges against the minions to be dropped, someone from SDFL would have to go before a judge and move for dismissal. The question is, which judge? Cannon appears to no longer have jurisdiction following her ruling that all the docs charges are not valid because of Smith’s alleged improper appointment. Determining the proper venues and moving for dismissal would probably take us past inauguration day.

It appears the only way the impediment (charges against minions) to releasing Smith’s docs report could be removed “immediately” would be for Biden to pardon the minions.

"Well," she added. "In nine days, that case against those two co-defendants is going away. Trump is going to have his DOJ drop that appeal, so why not just drop the case against them, drop that appeal against them now? And then you can release this report."

"It's silly, it's not pragmatic," she added. Former prosecutor Kristy Greenberg.

SDFL can’t just drop the charges via email.

Despite the quote from yet another TV lawyer, As one who has followed these cases closely, you should be well aware of how court schedules are not a simple, quick process.

A pardon is the only “immediate” remedy.

You’ve seen numerous times how long it can take to schedule a hearing- even when Smith wanted a hearing to dismiss Trump’s charges post-election, it took a couple of weeks.

Seeing your record regarding Garland I am going to have to respectfully ask for a link why Garland can't just dismiss the charges.

What does EmptyWheel have to say about this?

Garland could hold a press conference right now, and say “we’re are dropping all charges”, but that wouldn’t make it so- there would have to be a motion to dismiss approved by a judge.

As you have seen, that doesn’t happen with a snap of the fingers.

If you don’t believe me, just Google “Smith seeks dismissal of Trump charges” or something similar, to see the timeline for a high profile, recent example of how dismissal of charges are not immediate.

On the other hand, a Biden pardon would literally be immediate.

to dismiss the case against Nauta and De Oliveira?

The pardon rules must be getting out of hand. A person should have to be convicted before a pardon is issued.

I expect that would still take longer than 8 days, just as it would now.

Can’t Garland dismiss the case? Or can only Cannon or the 11th circuit do that?

That is, the prosecution has formally brought charges against an individual (usually in the form of “the people vs. X” ), the prosecution cannot unilaterally drop the charges without the consent of the court.

It is perhaps a formality, but it is also a part of the rule of law called Due Process, not that any defendant would object and say, “no I insist on going to trial”.

It is more of a case where both the prosecution and the defense show up in court and agree that the charges should be dropped and the judge rules that the case is closed either with or without prejudice (without means charges could be refiled in the future).

It would appear.
Good old Graymail.

Nauta and DeOliveira's cases will be dropped on Jan 20 anyway. Jan 21 at the latest. Come on Garland. Redeem yourself. Release the report.

Everyone! President Biden, the citizens of this country, and the justice system. He was a massive disappointment. I hope to never hear his loser name again. Fu*k him.

Garland for sure strikes me as the kind of guy who finds his courage to do the right thing for the American people when there’s payday involved.

Garland appointed Trump crony Hur as special counsel to investigate classified documents found at President Biden's properties.

Garland released the entire Hur report, unredacted, even the lying part about the only reason that Hur did not indict Joe was because he was old and senile and forgetful.

Garland had the balls to release those lies about President Biden and now he is going to hide the report about the classified documents found at Mar-el-Lago. Many of the classified documents that Trump stole were the most top secret to only be viewed in a SCIF.

Fuck you Merrick Garland, I thought you weren't going to be partisan?

And, of course, all evidence will be destroyed on January 20. I hope I’m wrong, but I think Garland will let the clock run out as usual. Then he can disappear into obscurity as historians describe him as weak and ineffective.

will give her summary of the Smith reports, just like Bill Barr did with Mueller?

Garland still has time to release the unredacted Mueller report.

Time Matters.

America was attacked by American religious cultists traitors as well as by our own Government. Remember these traitors forever!!

47 months and counting

9 days left.

the chair of the Senate Judiciary committee both reports now before making either public. This would make certain the reports don't dissapear.

Merrick the Meek is a life-long Federalist fellow-traveler. He successfully trolled Obama, and then Biden.

Many of us at DU warned in 2020 of the fink that he is.

He has no honor...and no honesty. And paved the way for trump.

Why not release the Mueller Report?

Justice delayed is Justice denied.

Garland is unable to grow a spine at this late hour. His natural stance has always been bent over. Too late to change now.