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In reply to the discussion: 'The Situation: In Defense of Merrick Garland' [View all]bigtree
(93,669 posts)...electing an already convicted felon.
Charged and even convicted felons in jail can run for office and get elected and serve.
None of that is within Garland's control.
May the people who stayed home and let Trump in again be remembered for ending a prosecution that was IN COURT when we voted and would be over and done, but for the appeals, if voters had done the right thing.
At no time did Garland refuse to carry out ANY part of the prosecution, and that should be enough for people who appear to have no clue whatsoever what actually occurred in the prosecution; much less what Garland was doing.
I'd like to do the thing that people suggest for Trump and ask them simple details outside of the phony reports that Garland delayed something because of some internal squabble with some FBI agents reported. The bullshit, and incomplete report by Carol Leonning was spread far and wide by word of mouth until it became the BIG LIE that Garland had dragged his feet, basically diverting from the judges and justices who were the actual ones holding up evidence gathered and even dismissing one indictment.
But there aren't any damning articles from Leonning or other critics about the republican judges and justices who delayed the trial until we voted.
Not one fucking word - and I just find that insidiously tragic and weird that Garland took all of the heat for THEIR delays and dismissals of both evidence and charges already brought as the Supreme Court's maga majority did delaying their ruling which just made up law to shield Trump and give him immunity.
If you don't talk about any of that, you're just bashing over 20 prosecutors who worked all the way to the election to try and get Trump before a jury.
What a sham to blame the prosecutors and not mention the judges, justices, or the perps who parried countless ridiculous appeals against their friends on the court.
Wake up people. It's not the Garland prosecutors who are enemies of justice here, it's the republicans and their politically motivated judges and justices who delayed the case; who are STILL THERE making shitty rulings that favor Trump.
I think what's happening here is that people are either too afraid, or too out of their league to actually confront republicans and their compromised judges and call them out. They see Garland as a soft target.
But I partly blame the people like Palin's Nicolle Wallace and the whingers she brought on everyday to bash the people working to prosecute Trump and others as they stood firm against ALL of the challenges and appeals which Garland could have ended at any time if he was 'meek' or any of the other derogation reserved for the people working to hold Trump accountable.