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In reply to the discussion: Merrick Garland is Getting a Bum Rap (posting because we don't have enough controversy here ;)) [View all]
edhopper
(35,902 posts)10. No he's not
He shares a large part of the blame.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-country-is-paying-for-garlands-timidity-toward-trump/
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-18/forget-matt-gaetz-merrick-garland-is-americas-worst-attorney-general
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/january-6-doj-trump_n_67783f7ce4b0f0fdb7b19d36
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/legal-expert-why-ag-garland-s-spectacular-failures-are-to-blame-for-trump-s-white-house-return/ar-AA1umkeJ
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/07/trump-legal-failures-blame-column-00187945
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Merrick Garland is Getting a Bum Rap (posting because we don't have enough controversy here ;)) [View all]
LauraInLA
Jan 2025
OP
Article good read with lots of facts. Harry Litman an American lawyer, law professor, former dep. ast. AG. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2025
#1
Pretending Garland is the real victim in all of this might be a good PR strategy.
Irish_Dem
Jan 2025
#2
Anyone still defending this poor bastard should compare how long he took to appoint a Special Counsel for Trump vs Biden
W_HAMILTON
Jan 2025
#3
The SKorean prez was much more overt with a very publicly directed coup attempt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2025
#16
You really can. Yoon did. He put official machinery in motion. tRump did not, pretended to be uninvolved
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2025
#21
opposing this pov should require presenting something of substance to dispute it
bigtree
Jan 2025
#6
I get that Smith is being a Garland apologist. But, if he'd been assigned to work on this a year earlier
lees1975
Jan 2025
#24
Garland himself on first taking office should've taken charge of investigating...
brush
Jan 2025
#53
The fact that you don't see even ONE of Biden's people praise or defend Garland says it all
thebigidea
Jan 2025
#26
I think they were waiting on the election. Once Trump won, things were pretty much dropped.
LeftInTX
Jan 2025
#37
It was nothing short of delusional to think this SCOTUS was going to permit Trump to be convicted in any trial
dsc
Jan 2025
#42