Merrick Garland Is The Worst Attorney General In U.S. History

https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/10/merrick-garland-is-the-worst-attorney-general-in-american-history/

30 comments

  1. While I conceptually agree with the broader point

    This is a propaganda piece written by a Fascist who will see Trump’s corruption as perfectly normal and fine.

    Their reasonings are not based on the actual concrete reasons why Garland was a horrible AG, his unwillingness to do what is right in service of avoiding being seen as political or partisan. His DOJ bent over backwards for Trump and gave him every opportunity to delay and avoid the consequences of his criminal actions.

  3. He was just the wrong dude for the moment. America is too boogered up for this Hallmark AG.

  4. Me: Holy shit, I’m agreeing with The Federalist!

    >Attempting to Throw His Boss’s Presidential Opponent in Prison

    Me: Oh. 😑

  7. Source: The Federalist

    Merrick Garland: Member of The Federalist Society

    hmmm…..

  8. Bill Barr was worse

    But Garland is hated by both sides.

  10. Fuck the federalist and I hope no American suffers more under the incoming administration than the one who slow walked us here

  11. This is delusional. I mean, the writer probably knows this isn’t true, but the people who read this article and believe it are delusional.

  12. Pity poor loyal Federalist Society member Merrick. Slow-walked everything for his real masters. Then thrown under the bus by them for being in the chair at the wrong time. Shoulda come off the fence when he had the chance.

  15. Barr was pretty bad but Garland as the worst is debatable. His reluctance to prosecute Trump immediately will always affect his legacy negatively. But other than that, and the whole special counsel ordeal, he has been mid.

  16. One of Biden’s biggest mistakes. We were at a place where we needed a pitbull running that office, and Garland was just not that. He was milquetoast selection aimed at the supposed return to normalcy. Normalcy couldn’t be achieved without the abnormal facing consequences.

  17. He should leave now and disappear forever. Total faulure

  18. I couldn’t agree more. The Justice Department’s San Antonio office had Texas AG Ken Paxton stone cold guilty against the ropes. The top DOJ office in DC said, to avoid being accused of not being impartial (don’t let a local Texas DOJ office prosecute) let’s move the responsibility to DC office…what happened?…crickets!!!

    Not a F&cking thing!!!!

    Thanks Merrick!!!!!

    https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/16/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-corruption-doj/

  19. 3 years ago I was perma banned from the Democratic Underground forums for uttering these exact words. They were all bleeting ” he’s just going slow…covering his bases…leaving no stone unturned…making no mistakes…being thorough”. fuckn morons.

  20. He dragged his feet and may have ruined our country. Thanks loads.

  21. He’s a Republican.Every Republican after Ike on the national stage chooses party over country. It’s that simple. 

    Comey did it, Garland did it, the US Senate and Congress did it.

  22. Bill Barr and William Mitchell were worse. But Garlands lack of action could turn out catastrophic.

  23. He is pretty worthless but Bill Barr is the worst in my opinion. We wouldn’t be in this mess if he was worth a shit.

  25. **If** Smith had finished up his investigations with ***very little to no room for indictments through evidence that was obtained*** and thus; they fizzled out, MAYBE it could be “understandable” that Garland sat on his fucking ass for an eternity, being scared of his own damn shadow. At least then we could look back and say “eh I guess if Garland went ahead and actually did his damn job, we do now know that these indictments just *weren’t in the cards*”.

    That’s **not** what happened, though. Smith hit the ground running and landed on SO many charges and those charges ALL survived the insane gauntlet of the justice system as a whole whilst the charges themselves were treading all new territory (though it was because the criminal, himself, treaded all new territory and so the charges were always going to be new territory).

    These charges went through special grand juries, grand juries, hawk-eye focused judges and the like. The charges were **exceptionally** sound and on rational grounds due to the crimes committed and what the damage of those crimes truly means.

    Garland is a tremendously gigantic piece of shit. I hope to never again, for the remainder of my life, hear him speak or read his useless thoughts because he’s useless. He was public about it when taking the position that he had full intent and desire to defend the constitution and protect the rule of law and democracy when applicable for the DoJ.

    It’s the one major thing he *didn’t* do.

  26. Worse than Alberto Gonzalez, Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions? Ridiculous. The Federalist has a strong pro-fascist bias.

  27. Cripes, I was two paragraphs into the article before noticing the Federalist byline! What a load of right-wing partisan tripe! Yeah, Garland WAS the worst AG in recent memory if one ignores William Barr. But for precisely the opposite reasons than claimed in the article. Garland foot-dragged indicting Trump until finally shamed into appointing Jack Smith way too late to be effective. By the time Smith had compiled his evidence it must have been pretty clear to anyone in Washington that SCOTUS would be able to run the clock out on any related case, throwing them back to the lower courts with a bogus ruling of presidential immunity which the lower courts had to spend time untangling. This is why Garland will go down in history as a pusillanimous wretch.

  28. This article is entirely far right talking points. The Biden quote at the beginning about partisan investigation is talking about Hunter Biden’s investigation. Garland’s DOJ attempted to prosecute Trump because he did things. He didn’t go after him for Jan6 because of a speech, he went after him because of the elector fraud that his administration orchestrated. The documents case wasn’t about something every President has done since 1980, it was about how even after being notified he had things he shouldn’t have, he kept them for two years. His home was not raided, a search warrant was executed at a time when Trump was not there. That’s where I stopped, but given the rest of what I read, I feel the need to say that the search warrant was not an assassination attempt, that is a boiler plate statement that allows the agents executing the search warrant to use deadly force if it is necessary. Also probably mentions Biden’s documents, but, again, there were years between Trump being told he had the documents and the search warrant, Biden invited people into his offices or whatever it was to look for more. If I remember correctly, those people were looking for more stuff within a week of the first ones being found. The two are incomparable and anyone trying to say they are similar is lying to you.

  29. Guys this is a Federalist article. Yes the headline is more or less accurate, but read the actual article. You will want to throw up in your mouth after about the second paragraph. The Federalist is right wing rag smut propaganda that is almost on the level of Alex Jones.

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