If Biden is frustrated with Garland, it’s his own darn fault

[BidenPresident]

Garland likes to invoke as a role model Edward Levi, the post-Watergate attorney general who reformed the Justice Department. However, Garland misses a critical attribute Levi possessed, as Lawfare’s legal gurus explain: “Ed Levi spoke a lot. Garland has been, in sharp contrast, largely invisible. … You don’t establish norms, or reestablish them, merely by modeling them. You establish them by articulating them, by talking about them, and by convincing people that they are the right way to behave.”


If Biden is displeased with Garland — or finds he lacks the necessary qualities to conduct the sort of investigation our fragile democracy requires — Biden can replace him. He has every right to a new attorney general who embraces the public, educational nature of the job and who will push back aggressively against institutional reticence and wariness of disrupting outmoded conventions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/04/biden-garland-jan-6-prosecution-frustrated/

 

[BidenPresident]

In sum, Biden chose someone not suited for prosecuting a former president and co-conspirators, and not inclined to play the public role that is a critical part of the job. Biden has not lit a fire under Garland. Certainly, the public has every reason to be frustrated with Garland. But the buck stops with his boss. If Biden is a lackluster defender of democracy at home, what do you expect of his attorney general?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/04/biden-garland-jan-6-prosecution-frustrated/

May be time to fire Garland and get an AG up to the job.

 

[Lionfish]

 

[Nordberg]

Garland has always had a rep as being super slow and super careful. The problem is as time passes, people forget what Trump and the right have done to threaten the American experiment. Trump was and is a dangerous man.

 

[BidenPresident]

Garland has always had a rep as being super slow and super careful. The problem is as time passes, people forget what Trump and the right have done to threaten the American experiment. Trump was and is a dangerous man.

The AG is not just a cop investigating a stolen car. The Attorney General sets a standard.

 

[Moosakofsky]

Biden is frustrated with a lot of things. Like finding his way to the toilet, what decade it is, who his VP is. Even who the president is. (Sometimes he thinks it's the ho.)

 

[BidenPresident]

Biden is frustrated with a lot of things. Like finding his way to the toilet, what decade it is, who his VP is. Even who the president is. (Sometimes he thinks it's the ho.)

you are an idiot

 

[Moosakofsky]

you are an idiot

Back on ignore you go! Troll.

 

[BidenPresident]

Back on ignore you go! Troll.

you are an idiot

 

[Moosakofsky]

you are an idiot

Unread.

 

[BidenPresident]

"In addition to selecting an attorney general who lacked political deftness and prosecutorial zeal, Biden has certainly not helped matters by failing to address the urgency of the Republicans’ assault on democracy. He has studiously avoided making the connection between defense of democracy in Ukraine and defense of democracy here at home. He refuses to give a speech explaining that our ability to mount a democratic alliance in support of the West demands we defeat domestic authoritarian impulses, such as big lies and conspiracies in service of propaganda, assaults on election results and election officials, and the embrace of violence."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/04/biden-garland-jan-6-prosecution-frustrated/