Senate Democrats, in a letter Friday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, weighed in on a judge’s recent opinion accusing the Trump-era Justice Department of misleading her about the purpose of an internal memo related to the Mueller probe.
Oh, that’s so sweet of you.
Amen! The facts are in. Release the facts! Make these freakers regret they didn’t go quietly into the night. Please.
Merrick Garland is probably using the DOJ account to purchase disinfectant and deodorizer by the case. I just hope he does develop tennis elbow and carpal tunnel from all the scrubbing he has to do.
The truth shall set you free.
ETA. Well maybe not so much freedom for Benedict Donald.
A boy can dream.
Mueller was going full speed ahead in early 2019. Then Barr shut him down in March…looking like a henchman following a script.
This entire TPM comment board changed almost overnight…and these folks here are no fools.
What Barr did has never been accounted for…and when I say “accounted for” I am using multiple meanings of the words.
Well, okay, I suppose, but, there are exceptions. I mean, if you’re a part of Trump’s circle of Felons, Grifters, and Broken Things, the only thing the truth is gonna free you from is having to decide what to eat, or wear, or do all day.
No idea what constitutes “normal” in DOJ response to an order like this from a judge but the document was ordered to be released by Monday and it’s 4pm on Friday. Seems curious to me that it still hasn’t been released.
Sunlight is a great disinfectant.
It’s not going to be immediate, but the slow rebuilding of the DoJ is underway, and part of that process will bring the abuses of the past four years to light. Garland is not the kind of person to allow bad behavior to persist…we may not hear everything that happens to fix and expose the past, but hopefully we hear enough to give us confidence in the future that the DoJ won’t be sucked into another administrations abuses.
The Gettysburg Address, as “summarized” by Barr’s DOJ:
“Hey, what great weather! Thanks for coming out, everyone. Enjoy the barbecue.”
better than bleach 
From the article,
Jackson ordered that the department to release a portion of the memo it had sought to withhold. But she delayed the order until May 17, in case the department wanted to appeal it.
If you want to bury a story you release it 5pm Friday. If you want the story to have legs, you release it Monday morning.
14 comments…Even TPMers are bored with Mueller.
Bye y’all. It’s been fun. Today’s the last day for freeloaders, so I end my almost 2 decades being mildly annoying on this site.
I have lots of good advice for you, along with some incisive but loving criticisms, but I’ll save them for next time.
You put the “shugga” in meshuggah, Sweetie!
Thanks, subtle difference which I didn’t originally recognize apparently. So the order is effective 5/17 rather than a deadline for release of 5/17.
The order will take effect on Monday—meaning that the memo has to be released that day, if I’m reading it corrrectly.
Just passing through (spending a week at the farm), but while I’ve been gone from Wisconsin, now, this:
Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Republican-backed redistricting rules (jsonline.com)