Merrick Garland Returns To Biglaw To Continue Not Prosecuting Donald Trump From The Private Sector

https://abovethelaw.com/2025/05/merrick-garland-returns-to-biglaw-to-continue-not-prosecuting-donald-trump-from-the-private-sector/

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  1. Despite the headline this article may contain opinions you disagree with. But I want to highlight this paragraph.

    >But when something arose that actually DID speak to Trump’s criminality — hiding classified documents in a pool locker and having his lawyers lie and say those documents didn’t exist — Garland appropriately appointed special counsel. Should the DOJ done more to fast track that case? Yes. Should it have moved forward to mandamus Judge Aileen Cannon while she auditioned for a future Republican promotion by playing constitutional law Mad Libs? Definitely… especially since the Eleventh Circuit had already expressed its opinion that Cannon was a clown.

    That’s the part I had most interest in, I really thought they’d do something about Clown Shoes Aileen Cannon and yet???

  2. Caught between a rock and a hard place. Cross the rubicon and prosecute a former President only to have it shot down by an owned and corrupt SCOTUS, or refuse to and keep the precedent intact. Tough choice, even though the rule of law no longer applies anyway. Hindsight is 20/20

  3. The Bottom line is the country is infested with MA GA ts. If we are stupid enough to let the Orange More on run and then assume office, we deserve what we get.

  4. Honestly, I wonder if Biden had pardoned Trump if Trump would have gained back his popularity as he did, given his return was entirely fueled by his false claims of being politically persecuted.

  5. I would have guessed Paul Weiss but he’s going to A&P.

  6. He was such a pathetic AG. He is absolutely complicit in our fall into fascism.

  8. Worthless coward and Biden was a fool to give him the job.

  10. This man is the reason we are in this mess. Fuck you Merrick. I hope you never sleep.

  11. The most overpaid wilted flower to ever run the DOJ.

  12. It took him 2 years before he assigned a special prosecutor for Trump crimes. Biden was even pissed off at him

  16. I wish I could do the absolute worst job imaginable at a highly visible job at a national level and still manage to land a job after.

  17. He can easily go fuck himself after he fucked our country.

  18. Well, at least he’ll get paid better for it now

  21. I HATE this MF.
    He needs to be thrown in a cell for aiding and abetting the Donald.

  24. He is a flaccid earthworm on hot pavement cooking in the sun. Pathetic, useless, American traitor. If I thought it was just the payoff, I would hate him in the way that I hate all people who sell their soul for money. He is lower somehow. His job requires a spine, ethics, and morality, but he is just a puff of apathetic air wearing a human suit. Fuck. This. Guy.

  25. I still can’t wrap my head around the scale of the damage this man did by utterly failing to do his most basic duty!

    He had *four full goddamn years* to prosecute a crime—an attempted coup!—that took place on live television, and failed. Other countries in similar circumstances have jailed their offending leader the same night!

    If America slides into autocracy, Merrick Garland will be the *single person most responsible*.

  26. STFU about this.

    Bill Barr obstructed so much justice for Trump but always gets a pass. Voters literally decided electing a criminal was fine. Had we not done that Trump might have faced justice.

    Stop looking for a scapegoat.

  27. I don’t know why anyone is surprised by anything Jared Kushner’s father’s BFF has done for the last 10 years. 

  29. Merrick Garland is rubbish but so is every single person who enabled him by not demanding his resignation and the appointment of someone who would actually do something.

    I don’t know what went on behind closed doors so I don’t have a list of who all that is but the Democratic establishment seems very likely complicit in his retention.

  31. The man was incredibly effective at not prosecuting Trump – why wouldn’t he continue not doing that?

  32. Imagine having to see Merrick Garland whenever you look in the mirror for the rest of your life.

  33. I guess Arnold & Porter feels left out from any public shakedown from the Trump Administration. This appointment should change that.

  37. I love Obama, but Garland was his biggest failure. He should’ve been a Supreme Court justice, and Jack Smith should’ve been AG for Biden.

  41. If protesting, for grand jury investigations isn’t part of our democracy anymore, it needs to be…

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