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In reply to the discussion: Those who are vehemently criticising Merrick Garland [View all]Beastly Boy
(13,283 posts)The law had everything to do with how quickly it occurred.
It is called due process of law. And it not only involves prosecutors, it involves the defense, the judges, the court administrators, the admissible evidence, the legal and ethical standards in following due process, all required to be followed to a T lest the case be challenged and dismissed, the strict standards to be followed in in requesting and selecting juries and scores of other factors that are required by law in order to gain a snowflake's chance of proving cases beyond reasonable doubt, none of which Garland's detractors show any awareness of.
And of course the relevant offenses were made unique by the mere fact that they involved the sitting and later the former and at various times the President Elect of the United States.