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In reply to the discussion: 'The Situation: In Defense of Merrick Garland' [View all]bigtree
(93,321 posts)...who delayed the case unnecessarily by accepting one of the myriad, successive appeals and making rulings that never would have been handed down for a Democratic candidate or president which either set court dates far into the future, or just arbitrarily dismissed the case (Cannon, docs).
Most people don't realize that Meadow, Guiliani, Clark, and others indicted by DOJ and elsewhere had communications and other evidence seized in the Fall of 2021 by prosecutor Tom Windom (who was still in court defending evidence when we voted) which wasn't allowed to be presented to a grand jury until YEARS later.
It was Garland's team, in fact, who argued for over a year in successive courts to have the attorney and other privileges removed from Trump's top lawyers and WH aides and FORCED their testimony which was used in the actual indictment to prosecute Trump.
It's this last point that makes it oh so ridiculous to claim Garland was in the tank for republicans, or was 'meek' or any of the other things that people who spent the entire time attacking the prosecutors instead of Trump and his court defenders.
He could have dismissed the case early, or refused to challenge the privilege claims by the WH at any point, but Garland's lawyers worked through the appointment of Jack Smith, all the way through to defend the evidence they had seized until voters cut them off by voting Trump in again.