Totally agree. This attack needed an aggressive and immediate response from the moment Garland was sworn in. Was there a single more important issue facing DOJ? Instead, we have a meandering legal process that will be winding around for years without touching anyone of consequence.
As a result, there is no deterrent to keep the same bad actors from continuing to act badly going into the next election.
Oh does he now? Care to share who you and the honourable moron from AZ would like to charge, with which offence(s) and citing what by way of evidence?
The USADC has over 700 criminal cases they are prosecuting. And do you know what the more serious offenders are charged with? Do you know that the USADC is now building the case that the vote cert. represents an Official Proceedings?
Please share with the rest of us your superior acumen with Criminal Law so that we can appreciate that your opinion is formed from anything more substantive than your childish emotional reflexes and desire for heads on a pike, process be damned.
Maybe we need a Hulk Hogan-esque individual (with appropriate snarl) to satisfy some…but the fact of the matter is this.
For all the matters (legislation, DOJ situations) we are facing, there is Performance Art and there are people in the trenches.
Garland certainly does NOT communicate “Democratic Witch Hunt.”
Why is everybody ragging on Gallego? Let’s say he was out there talking about how politicized and corrupt the Supreme Court is, and lo and behold, you have defensive justices suddenly saying how they are not politicized without ever mentioning his name.
It would be almost as if heaping some public pressure got to them. Maybe that’s the point.
Gallego was in the room when all that shit went down. He isn’t some shrinking violet, and if you want someone to at least voice your frustration in a public manner, he’s doing you a favor. Nice part is, you don’t have to thank him for it.
Gallego’s won his last few elections (AZ-07) with 75%, 86%, 75%, and 75% of the vote. Who’s he playing to? Is he concerned about a primary challenge?
Gallego has certainly achieved the feat of negating the impression of Garland as a Witch-Hunt artist. And that is damned useful.
No snark
AG Garland: “I have no more fecks to give.”
This. In fact, our knowing potentially impedes any investigations underway. The bloviating about Garland not doing this or that is tiresome and counterproductive.
“Although more than 700 people have been arrested in connection to the deadly Capitol insurrection last year, only 30 have been sentenced to prison, according to Politico. Hundreds of cases are still pending…”
700 arrests (and counting) – after less than a year?
And last I checked, it’s not law enforcement’s job to render verdicts and sentencing after charging.
But, then again, I’m no lawyer like those trashing Garland, so what do I know?
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Because we don’t know the entirety of what the DOJ is or isn’t doing at this point, and that’s as it should be.
Get a grip, Gallego. Parts of the Watergate timeline. Note how many years it spanned:
And this lack of an immediate response allowed Republicans to regain their footing, and recast the story.
In three years we may all be building gulags
We’re all a little Veruca sometime in our lives.
“I think Merrick Garland has been extremely weak, and I think there should be a lot more of the organizers of January 6 that should be arrested by now,” the member of Congress said on CNN.
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Blasphemer!!!
Don’t you know that Garland can order the FBI to go out and kick down doors in the dead of night? Rounding up all the guilty and shipping them off to Stalag Gitmo because he must satiate the anger and retribution which serves as the central tenets of any effective justice system.
I fear that if I pressed you further, you would claim that there was no judicious merit to the Coliseum in Rome.
I’m so happy that Bennie Thompson is the ‘lead singer’ of ‘the committee’.
Would you prefer the Justice Department act on the Democratic Party’s timeline? They might have to change the name of the department.
Republican conspirators are quaking in their jack boots in fear of Merrick??
NOT!!
Are you naive or kidding? Garland own professor at Harvard notes zero evidence Garland is investigating the big Republican fish, and Tribe is pleading for DOJ grand juries and prosecutions.
From 12/23 NYT Op-Ed, “Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?”:
“… Almost a year after the insurrection, we have yet to see any clear indicators that such an investigation is underway, raising the alarming possibility that the Biden Justice Department may never bring charges against those ultimately responsible for the attack… there are no signs, at least in media reports, that the attorney general is building a case against these individuals — no interviews with top administration officials, no reports of attempts to persuade the foot soldiers to turn on the people who incited them to violence…”
(Garland’s professor at Harvard) - Laurence H. Tribe (@tribelaw) professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. Donald Ayer (@DonaldAyer6) was a U.S. attorney in the Reagan administration and deputy attorney general in the George H.W. Bush administration. Dennis Aftergut (@dennisaftergut) is a former assistant U.S. attorney.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/opinion/trump-capitol-riot-january-6th.html
