A.G. Garland’s legacy will be defined by Trump

[BidenPresident]

Merrick Garland begins his second year as attorney general much the same way he launched his first — a quiet man at the center of political storms over democracy, the rule of law and Donald Trump.

A year in, the central test of Garland’s tenure remains the same: convince lawmakers and the public that his is an apolitical Justice Department at a time when their biggest issues are inherently political, including the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, a congressional investigation of Trump’s efforts to undo the 2020 election results, and partisan battles over elections and civil rights.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/14/merrick-garland-justice-trump/

Garland is a failure. So far, he is a waste of space.

 

[BidenPresident]

“This is a big moment in history,” said Parker, who thinks Trump should be investigated for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. “This is going to be a defining moment in how we view our own justice system, and how everybody else in the world views it. We’ve always held ourselves up as a beacon of how to do democracy in the world. And if we’re not capable of investigating a president of the United States who openly flouted the law, then that’s going to be a real turning point for us, and in my view, we’ll be taking the wrong turn at the fork in the road.”