This Week in We Really Need to Impeach Merrick Garland (10/3)
David Shasha
Impeach the New Banana Republic AG Merrick Garland for His Trump Support
It has been a tumultuous week for the Biden Agenda.
There is always Traitor Joe:
https://www.axios.com/scoop-manchin-delay-biden-plan-to-22-8116a0e8-ed10-4662-8ebb-6922f073a8e8.html
For those who might have missed it, here are some articles that show us why he is Traitor Joe:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/Lh9KpClMaAo/m/YfvtD9ikAAAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/GN3QJRl9Y_s/m/atPUIHeBBgAJ
It is all in the MISHPOCHEH:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/OWuW6XQHBXg/m/90r_2MuaAQAJ
Ross Douthat and Tikvah Tablet are all in with him!
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/01tykjuU4_g/m/AiCAO9ukAAAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/FWWmZ07_AWA/m/ggduIeBQAQAJ
And his partner in Koch Brothers crime, Kyrsten Sinema:
The two Republican wannabes are pretty comfortable giving the proverbial middle finger to our president:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/28/politics/kyrsten-sinema-joe-manchin-negotiations/index.html
They are intent to leave the Jim Crow Filibuster in place; thereby allowing the Republican minority to torpedo the Biden Agenda:
When Bret Stephens is applauding you, you know that you are on the Leo Strauss side!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/opinion/biden-infrastructure-congress.html
Then there was the nauseating spectacle of Josh Insurrection Fist Bump Hawley calling for “accountability” at the Afghanistan Senate hearings this week:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6274668781001/#sp=show-clips
We will of course recall how Trumpseditionist Hawley gave his best Benedict Arnold Alt-Right support to the rioters:
We will also recall how Trumpscum Moscow Mitch did the Zombie Orange Pig’s bidding by blocking a 1/6 Commission in the Senate:
Indeed, we are still waiting for the Turtle to proffer charges against Trump, as he stated in his pathetic No Vote speech on the Second Impeachment:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-trump-impeachment-vote-senate-speech/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/us/mcconnell-trump-impeachment-acquittal.html
But going after Biden is fair game:
The Zombie Orange Pig – not so much!
So, we got the disgusting spectacle of the Trumpublican Sedition Caucus grilling our military leaders in the usual Benghazi manner:
https://news.yahoo.com/unmitigated-disaster-republicans-pick-bidens-162045099.html
Congressional Oversight of the Executive Branch is a very relative thing when there is a Democrat in the White House:
As if all this Trumpublican mess in the Senate hearing was not enough, the following day the scene shifted to the House, where things got even more disgusting:
That’s right, it is Trumpscum Rapist Matt Gaetz doing another “performance” for his boss, and to try to deflect attention away from his own criminality by attacking Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin.
It is also a mystery why Gaetz has not yet been criminally charged for his sexual crimes:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/matt-gaetz-daily-beast-underage-sex-work-rape-b1840442.html
And this leads us directly to the new Banana Republic AG, whose malfeasance has enabled the Trumpublicans to continue to run wild:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-riot-jan-6-defendants-plea-deals-too-lenient
According to this excellent report from BuzzFeed, we see how the DOJ is allowing the 1/6 Insurrectionists to get away with it:
A federal judge on Thursday pushed back on the government’s decision to ink deals in the Capitol riot cases that involve low-level misdemeanors, questioning whether that was appropriate for people involved in “terrorizing members of Congress.”
The unusual exchange came during a plea hearing for Jack Jesse Griffith, who was charged solely with misdemeanor crimes for going into the Capitol on Jan. 6; he wasn’t accused of violence or property destruction. As Griffith prepared to plead guilty to one count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building — a class B misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of six months in jail — US District Chief Judge Beryl Howell asked the prosecutor to explain why Griffith’s deal involved a class of crime typically reserved for people who did things like trespass in a national park at night.
“I'm just curious — does the government have any concern given the factual predicate at issue here, of the defendant joining a mob, breaking into the Capitol building through a broken door, wandering through the Capitol building and stopping a constitutionally mandated duty of the Congress and terrorizing members of Congress, the vice president, who had to be evacuated?” Howell asked. “Does the government, in agreeing to the petty offense in this case, have any concern about deterrence?”
It was the second time this week that a judge questioned whether defendants charged in connection with Jan. 6 are getting off too lightly in plea deals, even if they’re not accused of more serious criminal activity, such as attacking police. On Tuesday, US District Judge Reggie Walton, one of Howell’s colleagues on the federal bench in Washington, DC, briefly pondered whether he should jail two defendants who signed a deal similar to Griffith’s, given their involvement in the “atrocious act” of storming the Capitol; he ultimately allowed them to go home until they’re sentenced in October.
Griffith is the 27th defendant charged in the Jan. 6 riots to appear before a judge to plead guilty, and the 21st person to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor as part of an agreement with prosecutors — either the parading count that Griffith pleaded guilty to or disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, which also has a maximum sentence of six months in jail.
We can add this dereliction of duty to Garland’s long list of Trumpscum genuflections.
There is the E. Jean Carroll case:
Then there is the previous Banana Republic AG and his criminal conduct:
And, of course, the notorious “Bible Photo-Op” stunt and the tear gassing of peaceful protesters:
Here is a review of Garland’s horrible conduct against the Rule of Law:
https://www.vox.com/2021/7/29/22594393/merrick-garland-trump-prosecutions-justice-department
It is pretty clear at this point that Biden himself stands with his Banana Republic AG, so is himself ultimately responsible for the mess he is in:
Indeed, Garland’s statement that the laws must be “fairly and faithfully enforced” is utter nonsense, and that he is acting as if the Trump Administration is above the law:
But Garland has opted not to launch a broad review of Justice Department officials’ actions during the Trump presidency. Garland has also, as far as we know, shown no inclination to reexamine criminal investigations that were closed or declined during the Trump administration. (Though if the Justice Department were doing that, they’d hardly broadcast it.)
Instead, he’s opted to let Inspector General Michael Horowitz take the lead in reviewing misconduct. Before Garland was sworn in, Horowitz had already launched investigations of Trump Justice officials’ actions regarding the 2020 election. More recently, Garland tasked Horowitz with investigating whether the department had improperly obtained data from reporters or members of Congress.
Horowitz was confirmed to the Justice Department’s IG post (an internal watchdog role) in 2012, under the Obama administration. But he was a nonpartisan figure who had deep roots in the department and had worked under presidents of both parties. And during the Trump years, he came to some rather harsh findings about the conduct of top FBI officials like James Comey and Andrew McCabe.
The case-by-case nature of Horowitz’s reviews, though, means those hoping for a sweeping reckoning with the conduct of Trump’s Justice Department leaders will be disappointed. As the Washington Post’s David Montgomery recently wrote in a deeply reported profile, “Merrick Garland will not deliver your catharsis.”
That is just more bureaucratic PILPUL hot air.
Without a proper accounting of the long list of Trumpcrimes, the current Republicans – the vast majority of whom are all in with the Big Lie and the 1/6 Insurrection – will feel that they can continue to do what they what to undermine our democracy.
And that means obstructing the Biden Agenda, and working diligently to break the president who they see as weak and fragile.
It means that they can destroy America, and face no consequences from the head of our Justice Department.
Who needs to go.
David Shasha