Merrick Garland wanted to avoid politics and protect the DOJ as an institution.
Thanks to his actions, or lack thereof, in one fell swoop, he has set the course to destroy the DOJ as an institution, make a mockery of what's left of the rule of law, and change politics as we have known it.
Ignominy.
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So building a half-assed case that would get tossed by the gop packed supreme Court on appeal leaving justice still not served, is preferable to building a better case and hope the people are smart enough to not elect the orange freak and make it harder for the scotus to toss the verdict.
He could not have known that so many tech oligarchs would get pissed at Biden for actually enforcing laws and decide to buy out the election.
The case started in 2021. Most of the co-conspirators were lawyers. Both lawyer-client privilege and Executive privilege fights had to take place to collect evidence.
Plus, DOJ was spread thin by thousands of insurrection cases. You can argue the top down is better than a bottom up approach, but hundreds of guilty pleas point the finger directly at Trump.
Justice is slow for people with good lawyers and $$$. Trump just ran out the clock.
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Yes, a year of warrants and cracking phones collecting evidence so that it could be presented to a grand jury in 2022. Summer of 2022 Grand jury fights over executive privilege to get Trumps former lawyers and the VP Pence to testify. Jack smith appointed in Nov 2022 after Trump declares candidacy so it doesn't look like a political prosecution, but over year of investigation and grand jury testimony was already in the books.
Showing that the Oath Keepers and Proud boys who physically started the insurrection were in communication with Trumps people corrected a minor flaw in the impeachment case that GOP reps used to absolve Trump of responsibility.
I will ALWAYS place blame on the republicans for not convicting. Garland did what he could within the laws that we have. He was never a savior, he was a Hail Mary. The people not re-electing Trump was our only hope.
But then you need the media to cover it correctly, and they completely failed at everything regarding Trump and this election.
You would get headlines like "Trump says he is innocent" or "Trump says there is no proof" meanwhile somewhere on paragraph 14 it might says something about what is in the indictment.
How many reporters are still covering the ongoing insurrection cases?
For me the blame goes:
1) the supreme court and the citizens united decision allowing
2) Wealthy donor class buying elections
3) Republican party for not standing up to those in group 2
4) media for utter failure to cover this era correctly (owned by group 2)
5) the voters of this country for having the memory and attention span of a gnat with ADHD (no offense to those with ADHD)
(....more....)
6) democratic party for not messaging this problem correctly or presenting a more attractive alternative when there is so much racism and misogyny in this country, but group 4 and 5 make that more difficult.
and finally
7) Biden's DOJ and Garland who are the very last resort when all the checks and balances above fail.
So the last resort failed but then so did 6 other lines above it. Much more blame sits on the first 6 groups.
I would go back to the fringe GOP of the 60s and 70s with the culmination of Regan in the 80s with Trickle Down economics, but Gingrich was the first of the mainstream, no-compromise GOP. I will give you that.
I just think blaming Garland is like blaming your sump pump for not keeping your basement dry after a hurricane drops a foot of rain that causes a damn to break upstream of your house.
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