The DOJ is an executive branch department with executive branch resources. They could have moved as fast as they wanted with as many resources as they wanted. I'm sick of these turf protecting apologetics for Merrick Garland. He was an incompetent boob, and Biden was fearful of anything Trump, because it might "look political." And that is the reason why Trump did not get brought to justice, disqualified from running for office and put in prison for insurrection. If the party labels were switched, the whole entourage would be occupying cells at Guantanamo right now, that's how the GOP would have handled it.
Garland was handed a Congressional investigation with mountains of evidence. He should have had a prosecuting team waiting, receiving that in real time, and brought charges to issue indictments based on all of that. The possibilities were endless, according to individuals as distinguished and experienced as Joyce Vance and Jill Wine-Banks.
The Democrats had control of both houses and the White House, starting in 2021. Were it not for the turf-protecting, job protecting desire to remain in office forever, we might have had enough members of the house and senate with the guts and fortitude to pack the Supreme Court early in Biden's term, overturn Citizens United, undo all of that ridiculous Presidential immunity crap, saved Roe and blew all of Trump's dilly dallying delays out of the water, and gotten both the insurrection case and the document theft case into court in January of 2023 at the very latest. That's what competent, and resolute politicians would have done.
Try and argue that point, huh? That if we had done this, we would not be where we are now. And explain why Democrats weren't willing to take the risk and use their power, huh?
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