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Fuck Merrick Garland he was Republican challenge that they thought Obama won't dare to nominate. When he did they still blocked him.
If he didn't delay investigation into trump while being AG, perhaps he would be in jail right now.
And then Biden, for some god awful reason, picked him as AG to slow walk any judicial proceedings against the felon Trump.
Biden hired him to slow walk the trump investigations so he could run as second worst again in 2024.
Yeah, he selected him to make DOJ impartial, except it doesn't look like anyone cared.
And the reality is, not only did no one care, it actually made the department partial to not prosecuting Trump for his many, many crimes, because according to these moronic, selfish, short-sighted, anti-American Republicans, it's not a crime when the president does it. Nixon toooootally should have finished his term without resigning, I'm sure no one would have convicted him :))))
Typical brain-dead maneuver from establishment Dems.
Bullshit. He didn't delay jack shit.
I don't know why this myth gets perpetuated by people who clearly were not paying attention.
Didn't he wait until 2023 or at least until mid 2022 before he started anything?
These under the constraints of:
It seems very obvious to me that this was a classic bottom-up case you see similar to RICO cases in white collar or organized crime syndicates. Garland had to ensure his case was extremely tight given the nature of going after a former President and the courts.
Let's instead blame:
I'd rather he have done it right and not get a verdict than rush it and Trump gets vindicated by a technicality or a Not Guilty.
I know a lot of people are frustrated, but using Garland or Smith as the scapegoat makes zero sense. Just because it didn't go as quickly as we as the general public and legal laypersons wished doesn't mean he delayed. There is no actual evidence he delayed anything. In fact I'll go so far as to say Garland did everything perfectly and it was pretty much an impossible feat given the cards stacked against him.