General Discussion

The federal part of our legal system always moves very slowly, but they are very thorough in their prosecutions. That is why they have a very high conviction rate. I think that the DOJ was slow to move because they wanted an iron clad case before they got involved in a political quagmire. It's not just Garland. The main problem is the slowness of the appeals process and how people with lots of money can delay, delay and delay. Where was the eleventh circuit when the judge in Florida threw the case out in Florida? Quite simply time is not relevant as long as lawyers are getting paid. Our legal system has been like that for a long time. Here in El Paso the city actually owns the Albert Fall house who was sentenced to prison in the Teapot Dome scandal. Sinclair, who gave the bribe was able to get off by having lots of good lawyers who could nit pick everything. These tools are only available to the very rich, not the rest of us.
Another huge problem is the Supremes. There is no way of fixing these nut cases. I think that if the AG had jumped right on it and got a conviction and then gone through the appeals process and won the Supremes would have found a way out for him.