Vergessen Sie Matt Gaetz. Merrick Garland ist Amerikas schlechtester Generalstaatsanwalt. Sein klägliches Versäumnis, Trump zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen, hat uns zum Scheitern verurteilt.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-18/forget-matt-gaetz-merrick-garland-is-americas-worst-attorney-general
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One of Biden’s biggest failures.
Snippets:
>Let people debate whether President-elect Donald Trump’s headline-grabbing pick of former Florida GOP Rep. [Matt Gaetz as his attorney general](https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-11-13/trump-nominates-republican-rep-gaetz-for-attorney-general) will be good, bad or really ugly. But there is no debate in my mind that President Joe Biden’s chief prosecutor, [Merrick Garland](https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2023-09-20/merrick-garland-republicans-spar-over-doj-investigations-into-trump-hunter-biden), is already the biggest failure of an attorney general in our lifetimes.
>We are where we are today because Garland failed spectacularly to act swiftly to hold Trump accountable for his illegal efforts to stay in power four years ago for inciting the violent Capitol insurrection that resulted in deaths, injuries, destruction of property and devastation to our democracy. By turning a blind eye to those crimes for as long as he could, Garland paved the way for the election of a disgraced felon who should not have been on the 2024 ballot. Thanks to Garland, Trump is storming back to the White House vowing revenge.
>The world watched in real time as Trump tried to launch a coup after losing the 2020 election – from pressuring officials such as [Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” him votes he didn’t win](https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2021-01-04/trump-call-to-georgia-secretary-of-state-prompts-partisan-outcry) to calling on supporters to gather in the nation’s capital on [Jan. 6, 2021, to “stop the steal,”](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/capitol-mob-trump-supporters.html) urging them, “Be there, will be wild!” None of what Trump did was a secret.
>Garland’s focus from Day One should have been to appoint a special counsel to investigate the former president for an insurrection that everyone saw him incite. Trump – still ginned up from the Jan. 6 violence – had just spoken at the conservative political gathering [CPAC](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-cpac-2021-speech-republican-party/) and hinted he would run again. Garland should have realized – as the rest of us did – that Trump was not going quietly into the night.
Y’all forgot about John Mitchell? Or hell, Alberto Gonzales? It’s like nothing in history ever happened until 2016.
Matt Gaetz won’t be the worst simply because he’s being used as a distraction. The chances of him getting confirmed are slim and he is such an outrageous choice that both sides will be arguing over him while worse picks for other positions will be able to slide right in.
I will always believe that the American left is good, but spineless. The right continues to show how ruthless they are in their quest for power. We can’t sit around and fucking twiddle our fingers anymore. It’s time for the left to step on the gas and play the same game – people are simple minded and respond to inflamed rhetoric. If the economy tanks, the vicious cycle will continue. Midterms will lean blue once again. If it doesn’t, then the left will be in serious trouble. The right is already on track to completely dominating the Supreme Court for decades to come. It’s all so fucked and seemingly beyond repair.
Edit: just to be clear, fuck the Democratic Party of America. I firmly believe we need real, progressive leadership here. The hope and future of this nation relies on democrats rallying behind such a leader. Rallying around a moderate candidate is no longer a sustainable move imho – so I guess I really believe the left is good, but not the democrats!
Worst one *so far*
The sad part is the democrats shouldn’t have to be absolutely perfect to win. The republicans can basically do whatever they want and never suffer the consequences. The standard democrats are held to is nuts. Inflation didn’t come down fast enough and internet commenters hurt young men’s feelings so we’re going to try fascism?
The fact is modern Republicans will choose party over country at every turn.
It’s insane Biden would appoint any Republicans, and should have quietly started a policy of removing Republican bureacrats and officers just due to security risk of them choosing Party over country.
Lincoln, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt and Ike are the only good Republicans presidents, and Teddy ran as a Progressive, and Ike was an FDR supporting Republican.
Worst attorney general SO FAR.
I used to think that,then realized I overestimated the American public.
I really don’t think it would have mattered,looking back.
People have compromised themselves so much to justify supporting DJT,that there is no turning back for most of them.
The issue with Garland is he’s feckless. The issue with Biden is he’s a good man. We need ruthlessness and the abject jugular-tearing terror of a liberal that Trumpists always whine about ruling America. Dark Brandon failed to fully awaken. We did not get our Biden-Carter Diumverate. We didn’t get Bomber Harris II. We didn’t get a “Bern Away the Right”.
We got a bunch of free-thinking worms that turned on one another and have a big tent that collapsed and we all went scattering to blame one another because we built a culture around being the better person, the better rule follower, the high-minded free thinkers that could debate and rebuke one another since we have the luxury of the eternal democratic flame warming our nation’s soul, giving us the luxury of going third party or having protest votes.
But that flame is flickering out.
Abe Lincoln violated the law. Teddy Roosevelt violated the law. Franklin D. Roosevelt violated the law. They knew that at times, you had to break the norms and crush your enemy with a brutality reserved for the most dire of circumstances when restraint is met with cruelty.
Snail pace of justice, the voters and non-voters fucked us. Also, the GOP enabling, being complicit, and part of the plan doesn’t help. They also have the partisan hacks on the SC. Judge Cannon case alone was the most open and shut case which should’ve been over about 8-10 months ago…judicial malpractice by this corrupt Trump appointed judge.
History will remember the inaction by Merrick Garland as what led to the fall of American democracy.
Russia funding of American political influencers and campaigns while a foreign born billionaire buys his own department in the White House through illegal voter registration lottos…
But no… the American citizens weren’t worth acting for. And so was written in future Chinese history books.
We are completely f*cked because of Garland.
We didn’t have to vote for him. People will blame everyone except the American people and it’s really annoying.
When hiring a lawyer, either go for a wild animal that frightens anyone in its vicinity or an organized and meticulous warrior who kills efficiently. Anything less than these and you might as well not bother getting a lawyer.
MG is a feckless lamb
How someone can do crime in broad daylight and it takes more than 4 fucking years to prosecute is insane.
Yeah, I think Matt Gaetz will be worse somehow.
The GOP, SCOTUS, DOJ should have stopped him but they were already corrupted. An insurrectionist and criminal and national security threat should NEVER have been on the ballot. The American people were offered the choice of two people (in practicality).
After 12 years of Democrats in charge (out of the last 16) and inflation making people feel poorer people were champing at the bit to choose a Republican again. Racism, power and propaganda fueled trumps popularity with the people.
What a disaster.
Trump’s overly litigious time wasting did quite a lot to slow shit down besides Garland.
He’s either a spineless incompetent or he was running static for the republicans and Trump. Either way, fuck that piece of shit.
The way Brazil dealt with Bolsonaro is how Garland should have handled Trump.
As a Brazilian-Canadian, I still wonder how the Hell USA doesn’t have legal mechanisms that prevents someone that tried to abuse the electoral system from running again…
I mean, down in Brazil Bozo tried to pull his own “January 6th” and became IMMEDIATELY ineligible…
Agreed. Missing in inaction. POS.
Come on, we haven’t even given Gaetz a chance… /s
Abject failure is the perfect descriptor
I think both Comey and Garland should be reminded daily that they’re partially responsible for what’s happened to the country.
He had one job
Never hated a non MAGA politician more. He’s almost solely responsible for what we have to deal with minus the repugnant voters that voted him. He alone could have spared us and the world from this corrupt dictator. I wish I’m the misfortune he deserves till his last breath.
Merrick Garland personifies apathy.
McConnell abdicated his responsibility first, then Garland abdicated his.
All these people are spineless. They just expect someone else to handle it for them so they don’t have to do the hard thing. Not unlike the people that couldn’t vote for Harris. We suffer because people refuse to just do what is right and needs to be done.
Have to agree here. Even if the SCOTUS had determined later that Trump somehow had the authority to what he did, he still could at least been convicted first. Now he gets to use the DOJ exactly the way he claims it was being used against him.
Hello? Have we forgotten about **Mitch McConnell**? He was derelict in his duty when he decided to not pursue a conviction in Trump’s second impeachment. He could’ve saved this country so much misery, yet he chose not to.