And everyone is paying for it, including Joe.

He could have fired him.

But hindsight is 20/20.

many talked about what was going to happen because of Garland not doing anything that it would allow trump to run the clock, many saw what was happening, but those of us who did were criticized for doing so.

IT IS Biden's worst decision to not fire the guy and get someone who would prosecute immediately.

I understand when a president nominates someone who clearly showed to be a loyal member of an opposing political party, and if that opposing party were the Democratic party, I don't think I, as president, would be worried, but when you get fanatical republicans, and all of them seem to fall in that category, then one has to worry. We have seen the result of keeping Garland in office, all the wasted work by sending the thugs to jail to then have trump pardon them all.

The situation is beyond frustrating, I am glad to see some Democrats begin fighting hard, but it has to be harder, laws must be discovered (I am sure there are some 'rarely used laws' out there) to stop this madness, seek them out.

Article 25th should be in everyone's mind, there is plenty of proof out there.

Foresight would have been more than sufficient.

By 2020 how could anyone have failed to recognize the dire threat posed by Trump?

Foresight would have also been beneficial on every single occasion a Democrat brought an olive branch to a gun fight.

I was being somewhat facetious.

It was Garland that Obama was going to appoint to the Supreme Court and we know how THAT went down. I think Joe was trying to give Garland a consolation prize.

In my opinion, while Garland might have made a good Supreme Court Justice, he did not have the strength to be a good Attorney General. And yes, that should have been corrected as that fact became more clear.

The pukes don’t care, they hate Dems and see that as kissing ass.

We should be questioning as to who recommended Garland for either position and LEARN from that mistake

definitely Obama!!

according to Mike Lee (R and Asshole-UT)

That's not good enough reason to make him AG years later.

consolation prize. If that's really how Biden was thinking of this, then that is supremely out of touch.

Barack Obama, January 2009, on the prospect of investigating and protecting Bush 2 war crimes and corruption.

He failed us miserably, let GOP off hook, saddled is with what we now face.

Should Obama end up in criminal docks, he is in large part to blame.

who bankrupted the KKK. Biden, whose career spanned the era of Dems and Republicans working together, was still trying to reach across the aisle. Republicans would have been incensed over Doug Jones. But there was no thanks over Garland.

While we had a chance to do something, we were appeasing Republicans.

after the Civil War. Now they are trying to finish off anybody who isn't them.

It was a sop to the slave states. Nothing more. Now we apparently can't get rid of it.

like the Bautista regime in 1959-60.

But I do love the thought of Doug Jones as AG...

Probably we had a deep bench of real Democrats.

An almost fact-free opinion piece that continues the misidentification of the true villain of this story.

But he was appointed by a Republican and they probably got what they were looking for

Mitch McConnell. If the senate did the right thing, at the very least the 🍊🫏🤡 wouldn't have been able to run for prez.

The results would have been exactly the same- no Trump trial before the election.

Scapegoating Garland is the easy way out.

maybe they finally got a fucking clue

Mueller's acts were just as complicit in their own way.......

I think no good will come of it. Even if honest, too cautious to take the action necessary for democracy.

The people with real integrity have stopped being Republicans.

to right wing events, to speak to them about how cautious he was....with their guy, with Biden he rushed right in there, in days, not over a year.

to take trump out. Unfortunately, most were still depending on courts a few months before collapse at Debate.

It was a documents prosecution. If Garland hadn’t waited 11 months to send the FBI to Mar-a-Lago the time frame would have been different, maybe we don’t get Aileen Cannon.

differences in Biden's documents and trump's, but the optics were a bathroom full of documents vs. photos of a Corvette and dusty documents in the garage. The Judge didn't help, but still . . . . .

the case didn't go forward in a timely fashion, nor would that have endangered the case had it gotten to court.
Trump would have been guilty for sure, and possibly the worst spy in the history of the country.

That has yet to happen, though we all suspect he did something.

into the court case regarding Trump's documents. That's not how the courts work. You can't say yeah, I stole that stereo, but look, someone else did it too.

Smith said he knew why Trump took the documents. He was ready to prove it. I don't know what Smith knew. But there is not a scenario that would make what Trump did legal in the eyes of any court.

would have gotten a slap on the wrist if convicted.

Again, folks depended on courts. It didn't work.

shit canned by *rump's pet judge Cannon in exchange for a Supreme Court appointment?

Somehow probably Garland's fault.

But evidence showing Trump's crimes, presented in court, would have helped that.

In fact, I think the problem wasn't lack of beating him on policies. Debates with him were few and far between, and as you said, the first one with Biden was a disaster. And I think one background problem was that Biden didn't have the physical stamina for endless rallies.

I think the Democrats should have campaigned more on the utter moral unfitness of a rapist, criminal fraud, and attempted coup leader to be president.

display 24/7 on the media I watch, he was even shown sitting in a court for days in a rape trial, and worse.

Yet, he beat us. It wasn't because of the media or anything else other than we didn't appeal to enough voters and "I wouldn't change a thing [from Biden]" was not an effective campaign message. [Note: I give VP Harris a lot of credit for working tirelessly in the campaign with a few months notice, it just didn't work.]

The fact people here dont understand the big problem is this.

Blackmail, being bought and propaganda are the 3 biggest issues we have. No policies, debate, nothing will fix that. Some people here need to go study how putin took power, because that is what we are watching now in the USA.

Is a terrorist organization.

Merrick Garland monitored 11 Federalist Society events.

When Krasnov fired Comey, rabid Magat Senator Mike Lee told Krasnov to replace him with Garland.

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Donald Trump is the biggest national security threat this country has ever faced. He deserves Gitmo or worse for the rest of his miserable life.

in the lovely Pam Bondi ....
As today's whipping boy - I give to you Merrick Garland !

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That math ain’t math’n.

Not to mention out of focus. But by all means .... Be my guest !

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Garland was appointed to a job that he CHOSE not to do. And here we fucking are.

I would call him ineffective, milquetoast, mealy-mouthed, spineless, naive, old-fashioned etc.

Boogie Man makes literally no sense when considering Garland.

As noted above, John Roberts is guilty of many more egregious offenses to democracy. Not to forget Turtle McConnell who rammed through RW judges after denying Garland his due process in the Senate during Obama’s administration, then gifted us with Amy Boney Carrot at the last minute. Plus feckless Republican Congress members, all of them, who will not stand up to drumpf. Add in any person who voted third party or didn’t vote in protest or whatever they called it at the time. Consider even Democrtic men who just couldn’t stand the thought of a woman leading our armed forces. A media who lays down like a rug for anything heinous the RW does or says but hounds the progressives for any imagined offense
There so much blame to be shared!

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The problem is we gave them a Democratically appointed AG to help them instead of a fighter to oppose them

As if he is ted cruz. He should have zero peace.

Scummy Cruz chairs the Senate Commerce Committee.

Garland is 72 and retired.

A blame game does not help the peril we face right now! The focus has to be on how to stop this abomination.

while hiding under your desk enjoying milk and cookies while watching reruns of Mr Rogers Neighborhood

As we knew they would when they were proven disastrously and conclusively wrong.

Holding people accountable and restoring the rule of law will be important issues for voters in 2028.

I hope he learned the lesson from Garland to appoint the person he wants as acting AG and when his/her time expires appoint another acting AG who will do the job holding Magats accountable.

Sally Yates then Peter Strzok.

Presidential cabinet picks are confirmed with a simple majority. They can not be filibustered.

Became fascist takeover.

... Merrick Garland and Doug Jones. I wonder what would have happened if Jones had been AG? I like to think the orange con man would have been arrested within days after he left office in January 2021.

— Ron

We have to deal with now, not yesterday.
As they say hindsight is 20/20

I bet no one here ever appoints Merrick Garland as Attorney General ever again! Yay!

exactly like him.

And we were scolded by the cheerleaders who rallied to his defense.

It’s not a question of hindsight; it’s recognizing that Garland’s foot-dragging resulted in exactly what we predicted.

That's what we hear about slavery, about the genocide against the Indians, about the war against Mexico, about the police state atrocities in Latin America, about damned near everything.

You are expressing a vicious and destructive right wing theme.

Great plan.

but he’s one of the most consequential reasons.

Karma, do your thing!

Garland was just too timid. Garland strikes me as that type of person who bends over backward not to appear too liberal partisan to the point of overcompensation. Even CNN questioned his meager explanation for naming David Weiss special counsel in the Hunter Biden case.

while remembering the catastrophe of our Merrick Garland past.

If we get a President Newsom, or qualified other, they damn sure better investigate and prosecute EVERY crime being committed by EVERY criminal in the Trump administration. All of them and every Ice fuck, etc. who are currently carrying out their dictator's orders.

We WILL have to build more prisons.

Why did JB keep him on until the bitter end?

look how trump has been able to get so many bad things done, and in four years, no major charges stuck to the person citing an insurrgency. Now, disagreeing with the leader get legal trouble.

it's actually very disgusting.

...did I ever get the impression that Merrick Garland had a fervor for defending or standing up for doing the right thing -- he projected the image of a simpering, frightened turtle who would rather hide inside his shell than bravely defend democracy.

He was no patriot -- maybe he followed a few rules and made some weak efforts while doing the absolute minimum, but nothing of any consequence.

Time to move on. This serves no useful purpose.

More like bringing a feather🪶

Merrick Garland for letting the clock run out- ever

Garland, Biden et al made the same mistake that so many made when running against Trump in 2016, thinking that certainly the American people wouldn’t elect him again. I think Biden and Garland really thought that they could avoid the appearance of jailing a former President and possible future candidate because certainly after January 6th, the felonies, the sexual misconduct, the fraud, the stolen documents he couldn’t be elected again. Only one problem, the American people are dumb enough to elect him again.

My opinion is Garland and Biden could have never pursued Krasnov. The magas would have taken to the streets and it would have been armed protests not our cute sign protests.

The magas didn't care about Krasnov being a convicted rapist, being convicted of fraud, being caught with classified documents. Hell, they saw the footage of Jan6 and believe Krasnov saying they were tourists or it was a day of love.

Magas are cheering the kidnapping, imprisonment and abuse of people of color. They hate non-whites and they hate democrats. They are cheering the military take over of DC and cheering Krasnov's threat to take over more cities.

The magas will do anything to protect their whiteness so they gave power to Krasnov, who promised to make America white again.

It would have been a national disaster, my opinion from personally knowing many maga, they will protect and defend their right to hate and their president.

If only we knew how the 90 million who chose not to vote feel now. Again my opinion, those who did not vote are the reason we are here now. They are more at fault than magas, garland, Biden, media etc.

Trump has been committing crimes for decades. Well before he ever ran for a political office.

Our justice system has given the wealthy and powerful a pass for far longer than he's been president.

Do I think Garland could have done better? Hell yes. Do I think it started with him? Not remotely.

Blame is widely shared here.

Garland was a 🤡 and a joke of an AG. Many of us called it out when he was appointed. What really makes me angry is how the SC and other courts ran cover for Convict at every turn. The NY case was enough to put this to bed but remember all of the nonsense we had to deal with.

1. The open and shut documents case was derailed by Cannon who did everything in her power to delay and make arguments that actual lawyers like myself knew were crap.

2. The Colorado disqualification case was another one where the SC ran cover for him.

3. The Georgia Election case that Fannie screwed up because of the affair and distractions. We lost time because of Fannie’s disqualification nonsense

4. The NY Fraud case was a win but the crap SC delay and kings ruling messed that up.

Garland was a problem but just the examples I gave show that an AG could’ve pressed things harder but the SC and the courts were going to run cover for this guy.

Turned out to be just enough.

when McConnell blocked his confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court.

Guess we were wrong.

about the blockade when Mitch wouldn't allow a vote.

I expected that one.

When garland was announce as the person who would look into trumps misdoing, I told everyone that he wasn't who everyone thought he was because Obama nomininated him as his choice for the (un)supreme court. I told you he only nominated him because he was trying to apease the republicans because they wouldn't pass any of his Democratic choices. And, even then they didn't pass garland because they refused to give Obama any wins. When garland was given the job to find fault of anything on trump he just drug his feet because he knew his time line and if he didn't do anything trump would walk. WOW that's what happened in 2023. Why did garland appoint smith to investigate when he had since 2021 to investigate, again drag those feet...

It's too bad he couldn't have just appointed Jack Smith much earlier than he did. Like within the first few months or even first few weeks after the Biden Administration took office.

A con-man so corrupt and harmful to so many people was given a pass. Every New York politician or prosecutor, people directing the IRS, judges who gave him a slap on the wrist because he was rich, bankers who loaned him money in spite of criminal connections and faked property values?

The whole system is rotten. Blame decades of a two-tiered justice system.

So much for the "big tent."

More like a tiny yurt.

I get "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," stuck in my head.

because "going high" works out so well.