No, Merrick Garland is not “water under the bridge.” We are currently having to deal with multiple corrupt and chargeable men and women in politics because of his failure.
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We could’ve had a good life w/ Kamala Harris at the helm where it would’ve probably even been ok to let it be water under the bridge. But noooo it’s not what we got. And so here we are fighting tooth & nail for our democracy. I’m always out protesting with my flag and my sign because right now:
It's irksome when politicians say, That's water under the bridge or It's in the past. The same politicians love remembrance days of past conflicts and using old, archaic laws to prosecute their case. Politicians, especially, would parachute in if it meant they had their photo published.
For four years, all I heard was that he's working on it, be patient. BS, now look where we are. No more patience. No more high road. Go for the fn throat!
Who's the asshole trying to clear Garland of responsibility for defending an illusion of impartiality over protecting America from the worst criminal scum to ever infect America?
Well articulated. Defending the illusion of impartiality over protecting America...
Was trying to place my feelings on Garland and that it is it. I thought/hoped he would've still been motivated by the scotus nom. screw job by McConnell and the GOP. Not so much apparently
He didn't want his actions to be taken as revenge, so he erred too far on the side of caution and let Mr. Delay run out the clock instead of pushing for contempt and interference charges like anyone else would be subject to if they pulled Trump's shit in an investigation.
Yeah if only the Dems would finally adopt the Republicans act first, justify actions later,methos of governance they could get anything meaningful done.
Personnel is policy which means the buck stops with Biden. He alone had the power to treat this as the national emergency it is. He set the tone. He ran on the threat then never mentioned it again.
Maybe it was. I have my doubts. I’ve never seen Dems hold Repubs accountable for any of their real crimes against the nation going back to Nixon and Reagan. American politics throughout my life has been one long bad cop-no cop routine. We’re surprised every time they let us down.
You just hit a fucking home run. I see absolutely zero value in conservatism, but that’s likely because for the past 5 decades the GOP has done absolutely nothing to help Americans.
Everything they do is destructive to the Average Joe. Literally everything.
This right here^
“"We don't look backwards, we look forward.-President Obama” The battle cry of cowardice that defines the current Democratic leadership.
in actuality 3 years ago Biden said he wanted to run against Trump again . that became DOJ policy . Biden never got it .. he would have had to face his own covert narcissist self and that was never going to happen .
He had 1 job. And 4 years in which to do it. The outcome? Death, anguish, poverty, climate crisis, innocent people kidnapped, pregnant women dying from sepsis, healthcare at risk (beef jerky RFKJR), Medicaid & Social Security on chopping block oh the end of our post ww2 alliances! Joe let us down.
Amen! After a year of no movement, he should have been replaced. If he’d appointed literally any other Democratic AG, we wouldn’t be in this mess. He shouldn’t get a moments peace.
Actually using Garland and Biden as an excuse for our own failures for the last 50 Years. Millions voted for Trump and we blame Garland. We don't blame Republicans for not impeaching him. We blame Garland because we don't understand the law and assume a ton of shit.
I blame garland for not doing shit about the Jan 6 planners, I blame scotus for giving Trump immunity, I blame Fox for spreading all the lies, and of course republicans for being complicit wastes of space as a whole. I don’t blame Biden. Trump lies are amplified and idiots believe them.
Merrick Garland is complicit. There's no way around it. How many felonious charges need to be levied against someone before he would have acted? Apparently 34 wasn't enough for this idiot.
One thing I never hear from this asshole is - why? What happened that he thought treating felonious orange slice with kid gloves was a winning strategy?
Threats? Intimidation?
Give us the fucking truth! Garland, you’re not a fucking idiot - what happened that you thought this was appropriate?
I think it was a case of, “We can’t possibly send a former president to prison” along with “We can’t put the country through this” and “We need to heal.” And now, we are where we are. 🤦♂️🤬😡
Everyone on this thread acts like they even know how to run the DOJ. You all act like the law is magic. You act like appointing a special prosecutor is just making a phone call. Like there is some special prosecutor waiting room out there. Plus the magic gathering of evidence.
I love morons like you that have no idea how the law works or what evidence you can bring to a trial. The nonsense you arm chair attorney spout is always amazing. One of the main reasons this country is crumbling.
This whole presidency is due to MERRICK GARLAND dragging his feet for years doing absolutely nothing. We owe it all to him. Where is this fucking weasel, Jack?
Agreed, he's not exactly "water under the bridge", he's more like an overflowing septic tank. You can't just ignore it and hope it goes away. It stinks, it's toxic, and it needs immediate attention before it seeps into everything.
I am of the opinion that Merrick Garland is full of shit. He had his opportunity to stop fascism from now attempting to overtake our government, our institutions, our corporate medias, our big & small businesses, and our citizenry in order to sell America off to the highest bidders. He failed.
Even Jeff Sessions did more to hold the felon accountable. That's how awful Garland was. Probably one of the worst AG's of my lifetime, at least dating back to Ed Meese.
The people that got us here, Reagan, Bush's, all the GOP and the people that voted the way they did are not responsible. The people that gave Trump a platform. A TV show. 1000's of hours of free press with out ever pointing out who he always has been are not responsible. Interesting.
Bull. He was dealing with turbulence caused by Trump, and the need for Garland to fumigate the process to get Trump's foul manipulation out! Wake up and look ahead; you are as dangerous as a distracted driver.
As has been said before. We need to teach the Democrats to not play by the rules either. The Republicans have burned the rule book, and are like a toddler playing a game they keep losing. Changing the rules and making up new ones as we go along.
You lost a follow, because blaming Garland is just silly at this point, even sillier than when he was actively convicting over a thousand J6 criminals. Just stop with wanting Garland or Biden or anyone to be as corrupt as Barr, Bondi, or Trump.
There's nothing silly about Trump and dozens of Republicans actively organizing a violent coup and facing no consequences WTF?
Garland absolutely could and should have arrested them with the mountains of evidence we had and put ALL department resources into fast tracking that prosecution
They were convicted and serving deservedly long sentences until Cheetoh Mussolini pardoned them. There is nothing that Biden, Garland, or Jesus could have done to prevent that travesty of justice.
Keep dreaming. This is the same sort of delusional thinking that got us where we are. The Biden administration was about the MOST competent of any in the past 70 years.
This isn't a dream ffs it's called "the law" and Biden and the rest of the dogshit centrist Dems who wanted to "maintain norms" and refused to enact justice is what got us here
Literally the "dream" is just "no one is above the law"
The most competent administration of the past 70 years literally ushered in Nazism? You may disagree over whether or not Nazism could've been defeated this time around, but holy shit was there a lot of incompetence when it came to pushing back against it.
Trump was already arrested and would be in jail were it not for the SCOTUS immunity ruling. Even if Garland had had him arrested, the Supreme Court would still overturn any legal decision of insurrection, which is exactly what happened. He would still be on the ballot, and would still win.
BREAKING: TRUMP WAS PROSECUTED FOR HIS CRIMES, BUT BY EXERCISING (EXPLOITING?) HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS HE MANAGED TO RUN OUT THE CLOCK, NOT BECAUSE GARLAND DIDN’T PROSECUTE.
Maybe you missed when the SCOTUS basically nixed that idea. Also, maybe consider that while the treasonous clowns in the administration bleat incessantly on Faux Snooze, that competent and ethical administrations don’t speak publicly about ongoing investigations. Seriously, you have been mislead.
Biden could have, on day one, written an executive order naming Chump and others as insurrectionists and banned from office according to the constitution, unless cleared by a vote of congress, and we would have had 4 years to fight it out
And on top of that his towering demented hubris kept him in office after he 'Finally beat Medicare' he should have resigned and let harris take the job and show us all a Black woman CAN be POTUS and the world wont end
Yeah, I don’t think that would make any difference. We know who that was and he currently occupies the White House because a third of the country has been brainwashed to believe an alternate reality in which up is down, corruption is good, and Trump isn’t a total fraud.
Maybe you should read up on how that coup leader used his limitless resources to pay dozens of criminal law firms to throw up every possible legal maneuver to lick the can down the road to run out the clock on the prosecutions (yes plural) or how a corrupt judge put her finger on the scale.
Merrick Garland is a disgrace. The fact that Trump never talks about him makes me think he slow walked this intentionally.
May his name live in infamy.
I mean - the other reason I'm asking is because Eric Holder has made more than one appearance on mainstream media sort of trying to alert adults who're willing to listen to the danger democracy's in.
Without belaboring the point - I don't see him doing that
We are dealing with this because Trump first elected in 2016 then reelected. It is not Garland’s lack of action but the American voters and the media that has supported Trump.
I agree. Even in the most generous vision this should be a lesson learned about what not to do next time, but the reality is that they attempted a coup in 2020 and it should have been dealt with and we should not be getting couped again now.
Garland is proof Dems can’t work w/todays GOP. There’s no compromise. Biden failed by giving them the benefit of doubt. He should’ve just treated them as hostile and enacted policy thus. Dems should be exploiting their lies & failed decisions. Instead we’re getting news agencies bending knee.
Yes, I agree. Merrick Garland should have done more and it is definitely his failure but we all have to remember that Mitch McConnell is the biggest at fault here. If Mitch could have gotten 10 more votes they would have impeached him and removed him and he wouldn't be in office right now.
There was never any chance that Mitch McConnell was going to protect America from a fascist movement. Still, in the immediate aftermath of January 6, some Republican Senator with even a very small amount of charisma might have done it, possibly even Mitt Romney.
Sarah Kendzior isn't everyone's cup of tea. Still, one of the things we should be learning over the past ten years is that these personal connections need to be noticed more often, rather than less.
If Hunter Biden had been paid $2 billion by the Saudis…
Biden’s biggest failure was NOT replacing him. He feared interfering with the rule of law, when in fact he would have been protecting it! Not ONE co-conspirator EVER charged. 🤬 BTW, do you notice Shitler NEVER personally criticized Garland? A HUGE red flag
Just a reminder, the folks that need to be blamed for Garland, the folks who picked and confirmed him.
Had Biden or democrats wanted prosecutions, they would have name a junkyard dog to be AG, they would have been screaming for special prosecutors in January of 2021.
It’s really funny how y’all are attempting to blame Merrick Garland instead of the 55% of white electorate who chose put this malignant ignoramus back in the White House. The legal system was never going to save you, but if blaming Merrick helps you sleep at night while our democracy collapse…
Racism is kinda difficult to get rid of, but one man... that should have been easy. Joe Biden and Merrick Garland failed at their duty and allowed the enemy within to continue to exist.
I strongly disagree. While there will always be unredeemable racists in this country, that’s not why Trump won. He won because people didn’t believe his depravity would affect them, especially white people. That’s not racism.
That's fair, but you need to acknowledge… Garland didn't go harder for the same reasons the Mitch McConnell didn't convict him in his 2nd impeachment or Lindsey Graham reembraced him after the insurrection… they were scared of their white voters.
I do agree w/u and also, if you’re representing the country at that level you need to be prepared to face all that means. They had access to more security & resources than any of us and failed to utilize them in a way that ensured justice. You’re right & they also failed so everyone can catch my ire
Consequential. Sad to know what could have been, should have been. But this is when it became clear his escape from justice had been bought and paid for.
He hid behind the DOJ tradition of not prosecuting sitting Presidents when that’s no where in the Constitution so he failed bc he wanted not bc he was forced to. Tradition isn’t binding rule of law.
Both parties have crossed tradition and norms at times tbh but have fallen back of illegal and unconstitutional. Ignoring tradition of not prosecuting a POTUS could not be unconstitutional. Fact potus didn’t leverage this was a flop
It’s also tradition for presidents to refrain from business conflict of interest and follow the laws regarding emoluments, pay their taxes, treat leaders of other countries with respect, and uphold the Constitution of the USA.
Merrick Garland was a once highly regarded prosecutor heading the OKC Bombing case. His legacy now is a milquetoast company stooge with no character or integrity a toothless impotent disgrace for a man.
Obama selected him bec he thought his slightly to the right moderate rulings would get the repubs to confirm him, Biden probably out of spite to make repubs confirm him nominated him ignoring better nominees & Garland proved to the repubs they had nothing to fear from him, he failed the constitution
Garland absolutely did NOT act with the URGENCY NEEDED to hold 🍊💩 and his coconspirators accountable and therefore avoiding this Fascist Regime and all of the fallout from it.
Garland and Biden both tragically failed their country. History will judge them as the Hindenburgs of their era. They had a chance to stop a Hitler but they didn’t out of timely self interest and prospective cowardice. They feared the future they could have altered themselves.
This is why who ever runs in 28' better be upfront about prosecuting these criminals.
Pretty much eliminates most of the people who are considering. I mean vocal support not Obama bullshit pretend progressive but really a moderate crap.
Finally! Thank you Mr. Hopkins for telling it like it unfortunately is. Merricks "dithering" when action should have been taken will affect all of us for a very long time! It's time that was pointed out to those who hold him blameless.
It's difficult (but not impossible) to believe that Merrick Garland was "in the bag," like the SC Justices - he may have simply been massively incompetent. Biden's arrogant thumb to Mitch McConnell's eye, Garland turned out to be a major mistake that may yet cost us our freedom.
Been saying this for years now. Garland may have been the worst AG in US history, and will go down in the books as a massive failure. He is personally and directly responsible for the madness our nation is currently trying to live through.
I think Biden, Garland & many of us didn’t imagine how immoral & cruel MAGAs & Trump are. Many of us didn’t realize how fragile our government is, with so much based on norms & laws with no clear mechanisms of enforcement.
I think they know they failed. I’m directing my anger at Trump & his enablers
I don't think they failed. They did the best job they could. We failed. Hell we are failing right now. This conversation is part of our failures. Looking for a scapegoat. How weak is that.
They failed to stop Trump, because they didn’t realize MAGAts were still a threat. We (32% of US who voted for Trump & 36% who didn’t or couldn’t vote) failed too.
My goal here is to learn from our mistakes:
1 aggressively prosecute MAGAts
2 convince non voters to vote
3 prevent voter suppression
Yet another example of the "look forward. not backward" mentality. Looking forward is going to have to depend on looking backward and correcting some grave mistakes.
Congress & the FBI reportedly blocked some of his actions. Biden Should have forced ACTIONS TO OCCUR: FUCK POLITICS; WE NEEDED JUSTICE! WE DID NOT GET IT!!!
It makes no sense logically. They had access to experts who could easily tell them what would happen. So either they were unbelievably naive… no. They weren’t. If we knew, they knew. Yet no accountability? No consequences? Not even any real guardrails put into place? Yeah, no.
It's not Garland alone, although he bears the lion's share of blame. For 2 years the democrats had majorities (slim or not) in the house and senate while holding the White House. Are you telling me they couldn't have done more to shore up our laws knowing that Trump doesn't do "rules and norms"?
They are responsible for not trying 1 elected official who took part in the Coup.
All should not be in office now.
That makes all those Dems complicit in the Coup it you think about it
No shit. But the whinging about Garland and Biden deflects from personal accountability. It wasn't up to two old institutional dudes to save us from ourselves.
He above all should be incarcerated for dereliction of duty. The biggest pussy to ever hold that position of power. Trump should give that bitch a medal.
Absolutely! Garland was the worst AG ever. If he’d focused on his job instead of his image, Trump would be in prison right now, along with the 1500 1/6 rioters he pardoned.
I’m over this dance to end democracy taking place between Justice Roberts and Trump. Grow a spine and some balls and muster the judicial authority granted to you by the founding fathers and needed during this constitutional crisis to shut down this dictatorship.
No, Merrick Garland Did Not Let Donald Trump Skate
Within days of becoming attorney general, he assembled his deputies and told them to turn over every Trump rock. Blame a lumbering system—and an electorate that didn’t care.
Treason is defined in the United States as levying war against the United States or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere.
The federal treason statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2381, imposes minimum penalties of five years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine, and a conviction bars the defendant from holding any federal office and carries the possibility of the death penalty.
As much as I love Biden, he gets a share of that blame as well. Garland should have been fired bc of lack of progress by yr 2. And there should have been a plan in place to prevent the catastrophe that is now dismantleing our government.
Biden should not have picked him in the first place because he should have understood that if Garland didn’t work out, the Senate GOP would make him hard to replace. Also, Biden backed off when he could have blocked Thomas. Now we are living with that tragedy.
I think this was the single biggest failure of Biden's presidency - failure to hold the top-level 1/6 architects accountable. That non-accountability is exactly why we are in this position today. (To be clear, plenty of blame to go around, but Biden's inaction played a big role).
Democrats biggest enemy is their civility and to convince moderate voter's that they are for all of US and that my friend is the weakness that shows that Democrats are not even ready to lead their home.
I think the #TrumpMafia got to #Mueller. That dude was calm, cool and collected during the entire investigation. Fast forward to the big reveal and Mueller look spooked, rattled and disheveled.
I'm a big fan of yours, but the assertion that somehow Merrick Garland is responsible for the sorry state of our democracy is garbage, given that he was the one responsible for the appointment of Jack Smith, who brought charges. Why blame Garland when SCOTUS is right there?
Because he sat on investigating Trump for two years. He went after low level fruit first. He should have appointed Jack Smith immediately after being approved and sworn in to defend the Constitution. Had 1/
that happen, Trump would likely be sitting in prison instead of the Oval. He facilitated the re-election of Trump, maybe unwittingly, but nonetheless, he did because of his timidity to act. 2/
SCOTUS would have overturned any conviction Smith obtained based on their expansive immunity decision. Trump has returned that slavish loyalty by defying the Court's order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They created this monster. Blame them.
Bingo. I blame Biden for a terrible choice. Everyone raved how careful and methodical Garland was. He was so careful and methodical that he could be the number one reason our democracy is on a cliff. Biden should have picked Preet Bahara, head of the NY Southern District.Trump would be in jail now.
Liberals thrive on a circular firing squad. Biden did everything he could to safeguard this democracy, & a majority of Americans threw democracy in the trash by re-electing that Orange demon. The GOP no longer believes in democracy. Wilful ignorance & a partisan & extremist SCOTUS brought us here.
Garland had the recomendation of 11 charges against Trump from the Mueller report. Mueller was former head of the FBI and knew what was prosecuteable and winnable charge. He was also by his own admission cautious on laying his reccomendations.
Garland NEVER gave a reason for not bringing them.
He was to worried about how it would look. Overly cautious so he didn’t look political. Look where we are at now, the whole justice department works just for the felon/rapist.
i think it should be pretty clear by now that SCOTUS was prepared to overturn any conviction Jack Smith obtained against that orange buffoon based on their ridiculously broad immunity ruling.
BIDEN is who should get the blame. He should have never appointed Garland and he failed to expand the Court. ALL of this could have been thwarted by just those 2 things.
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Was trying to place my feelings on Garland and that it is it. I thought/hoped he would've still been motivated by the scotus nom. screw job by McConnell and the GOP. Not so much apparently
Our justice system is easily manipulated and justice IS routinely delayed by the rich and powerful.
SCOTUS has not only allowed this but anointed it with their special constitutionality wand.
Biden and Garland just thought America wanted to get back to normal, president keeping out of it, DOJ being methodical.
It was the Wrong time for that.
Everything they do is destructive to the Average Joe. Literally everything.
“"We don't look backwards, we look forward.-President Obama” The battle cry of cowardice that defines the current Democratic leadership.
Biden fucked us twice in ways we might not recover from.
Biden with Garland allowed Trump to get away with attacking our capital to steal an election. No forgiveness from me, ever.
Then he insisted on running again until it was SO late. Too late.
No forgiveness from me. Ever.
We need ALL HANDS on deck to FIX THE BREACH
So we can right this huge ship now.
His job was enacting a political strategy you may have heard of in another context: justice delayed is justice denied.
In case anybody's unclear on this, that job was evil.
Threats? Intimidation?
Give us the fucking truth! Garland, you’re not a fucking idiot - what happened that you thought this was appropriate?
“the worst … of your life, so far!”
Garland absolutely could and should have arrested them with the mountains of evidence we had and put ALL department resources into fast tracking that prosecution
In a world where Biden knew how to do his job, Trump would have been hung in the public square for treason and unable to pardon anyone
Literally the "dream" is just "no one is above the law"
If you can't get on board with that, fuck off
He was arrested for a WHOLE DIFFERENT crime
And yeah, let SCOTUS say it's cool to incite an insurrection on appeal. But in the meantime, get the fuckin conviction for treason first
Maybe you weren’t paying attention.
Never one word out the Feckless oathbreaker's mouth about the 14th amendment disqualification
The DoJ only went after Chump when the House shamed them into it
I will blame them, and curse them, forever
Biden and his DoJ made it clear at the time they did not want to prosecute Chump, they wanted comity, not justice
666 days is facts
Seriously fuck Biden forever
May his name live in infamy.
Without belaboring the point - I don't see him doing that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7D6Xf04g4
Hunkering down in his septic tank.
Even though he has accomplished a cabillion cajillion times more than I have or ever will. I still wouldn’t want to be Merrick Garland.
Look fam. SCOTUS was primarily responsible.
Then senators who wouldn’t vote to convict, corrupt judges like Eileen Cannon, large donors like Musk(skuM), and Faux News.
Only after all of that would I mention the incompetence of Fanni Willis or Garland.
You plainly have a good knowledge of what he did and did not do, why and when.
So specify what you “believe” are his failures.
https://www.salon.com/2018/10/05/historian-of-nazism-explains-why-gop-senate-leader-mitch-mcconnell-is-the-gravedigger-of-american-democracy_partner/
Must read: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state
is a statement asserting:
1 evidence was brought to Garland about Kushner
2 And he declined to sanction any investigation to be taken forward
Has Kendzior got any evidence to support those propositions?
Or is she full of conspiracy theory shit?
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebev.bsky.social/post/3loo7jardh226
If Hunter Biden had been paid $2 billion by the Saudis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebev.bsky.social/post/3lonyr4uzac24
Had Biden or democrats wanted prosecutions, they would have name a junkyard dog to be AG, they would have been screaming for special prosecutors in January of 2021.
There is no republican caused atrocity so horrific that some will not immediately and loudly blame the dems for not preventing it.
https://whereofonecanspeak.com/2023/03/02/youve-probably-never-heard-of-murcs-law-but-youve-seen-it-in-action-lots-of-times/
They had the guy picked up within 90 minutes, they traced McVeigh and his cohorts to the van in hours.
I could have prosecuted that case and won.
Ditto for McConnell & Republicans.
Ditto for the courts - especially #CorruptSCOTUS
Pretty much eliminates most of the people who are considering. I mean vocal support not Obama bullshit pretend progressive but really a moderate crap.
Why?
WHY?
I know why. You must too.
But WHY goddamnit?
Chickenshit?
Cowards?
Do not unto them that you don't want them to do to you?
It's the only bloody explanation
Sir? What about Hitler?
They say he killed himself?
The system worked as intended. People are wild if they think these people will EVER hold any of the rest of them accountable for any of their actions.
Treason by justifying the ends and the rights of money regardless of nationality.
Running drugs and guns.
Breaking and entering.
Fabricating evidence.
Uts never Republicans fault
Following YEARS of clickbait replies from you scolding us all for being impatient- “just give him time”/“wheels of Justice”/“Garland Revenge Tour”
Fuck right off
The dems enabled all of this.
I think they know they failed. I’m directing my anger at Trump & his enablers
My goal here is to learn from our mistakes:
1 aggressively prosecute MAGAts
2 convince non voters to vote
3 prevent voter suppression
He’s a coward pos.
To all that did not vote bc of the Gaza genocide well I hope this makes you happy
Biden was shit
Garland
Not one word about the 14th amendment disqualification
Refusing to get the fuck out the way after he finally beat Medicare
I hate the rabid dog, running wild
I hate more the man who loosed him, with a smile
and the sickness starts at the top
https://mindsitenews.org/2025/04/01/sanewashed-trump-dementia-and-mental-illness/
It’s not enough to have power you have to use it
All should not be in office now.
That makes all those Dems complicit in the Coup it you think about it
Within days of becoming attorney general, he assembled his deputies and told them to turn over every Trump rock. Blame a lumbering system—and an electorate that didn’t care.
I can expound if needed. Don't feel like it atm.
He's being enabled by other fools and cowards. In NYC, you can't be either. We're not afraid of him AT ALL.
Garland NEVER gave a reason for not bringing them.
https://youtu.be/dn7D6Xf04g4?si=s5BT-c7XweVHo6CO