Merrick Garland Will Vow To Prosecute White Supremacists In ‘Heinous’ Capitol Attack | Talking Points Memo

Judge Merrick Garland, President Biden’s nominee for attorney general, will commit to confronting “extremist attacks” in his opening statement for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday.


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I hope he goes all the way up the ladder.

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This is one confirmation I am hoping for because it is altogether appropriate.

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I can’t wait to have an AG that is worthy of the title. It’s been a long 4 years of the past occupants toadies and sycophants.

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Is there any doubt?

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Let’s get started. The Post Trump Era cannot start without Garland or his twin.

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Nope
And Mitch has a wake up call about his seriously inappropriate treatment of Judge Garland in that he wouldn’t even allow courtesy visits to senators for Judge Garland when Obama had nominated him to the Court. That was really really rude right there in my opinion.

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Speaking of white stuff…

There is a video floating around the intertubes…

Edit. Found that Josh retweeted the video.

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I am fully onboard with how much white supremacy or racism/tribalism plays a part in the RW and Chump’s cult and what happened Jan 6. But I don’t like the emphasis on it from our prosecutorial angle. So many of the RW aren’t really supremacists, and what they did was treason, insurrection, sedition, and illegalities against free elections.

I don’t want these people arguing their way out of this, or setting up defenses about whether they are motivated by race. They will bring in people who will swear they helped some POC with car trouble, or were always perfectly respectable at work with a diverse cohort. I want them shown to their face that what they did was insurrection, and their offenses were against America…not some kind of prejudicial deficiency in their worldview that we can’t prove objectively.

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117th (current)

114th (2016)

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See, LowBarr, this is how it is supposed to work.

For the people, not the EXIMPOTUS.

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Judge Garland’s opening statement about the 1/6 terrorist attack on the Capitol puts him directly at odds with 50 GOP senators, including Joe Manchin, so…

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And all the way to the bottom of the barrel to get T****.

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Question… at the top of this thread I see discobot has a post with a “likes” button like it has posted something… How is it that the bot posted by itself?? I’ve not seen that before.
I think I might just flag its ass.

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What, Manchin hasn’t already come out in opposition to him? I guess being a “moderate” white Xtian guy helps.

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After being sworn in, Attorney General Garland should give McConnell the finger.

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by all means go after the white supremacists. Don’t forget the fascists, nazis, KKK, and the Congress members who encouraged and organized them.

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Ya beat me to it…sonsofares…

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Get discobot banned. Yeah!!!

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I hope these traitors all get prosecuted but the real issue is after conviction. Will they get Wypipo sentences or actual hard time?

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