By delaying any investigation or prosecution of Trump until almost two years after he became attorney general, Garland hamstrung Jack Smith, the dogged and beleaguered special counsel, leaving little time for the predictable unpredictabilities of two high-stakes prosecutions. Both were as solid as federal cases get, and now neither has any chance of being completed before the election, leaving voters without clear legal conclusions about Trump’s responsibility for the Jan. 6 riot and the highly classified documents he took from the White House.
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If Garland outlives me I’d like him to be a pallbearer at my funeral so he can let me down one last time.
He probably won’t even show up on time.
One way or another there will be a new AG next year.
Garland should never have been AG.
Garland was supposed to be a SCOTUS justice, blocked by McConnell, et al. When he was appointed AG, he exercised great caution to ensure that nothing he did had the appearance of “revenge” or selective prosecution. That behavior is absolutely necessary, but it wouldn’t have been if it wasn’t Garland as AG.
Right?
Picking him as AG was absolutely baffling to me at the time, and it’s panned out to be perhaps the worst pick in the entirety of the Biden administration. Like, genuinely, the only worse play off the top of my head would have been to just keep Bill Barr around.
The oligarchy will never prosecute one of their own.
