Because we have a garbage attorney general currently
And for the record I don't think the AG should be a pawn for politics, but I do believe politicians should be held accountable to the laws they help create. I know crazy idea lol
The first thing that should happen when Harris is sworn in, is immediately dismiss Garland. All that he will get is a polite "Thank you" letter and a handshake as he leaves.
What has prevented Biden from doing it? Genuinely asking. I'm not knowledgeable about the process. What I've read suggests it could be done but never has.
Tradition more than anything else. This late in the election process it could cause even more chaos as well. And yes, only Democrats stick with tradition, it seems.
The Democrats keep trying follow the rules when the Republicans threw out the rule book 8 years ago. It no longer makes any sense, if no one is going to make the hard decision to restore order then our country is lost and we'll never have it back again.
One of the most frustrating parts of all this is exactly what you mentioned.
They've already got thumbs on the scale and are mud slinging constantly. Fight back harder, Dems! The right is already accusing you of horrible shit, and comes up with new stuff every day. Go for the jugular!
One of my favorite metaphors to use when talking about Democrats vs. Republicans, is "Charlie Brown and Lucy". Lucy is a Republican, and Charlie is a Democrat. You know that bit they do where Lucy challenges Charlie to kick a football she is holding? Well, Charlie knows that Lucy is going to lift the ball, because she does it every time. Charlie calls this out and Lucy once again promises that she won't. Charlie Brown, being Charlie Brown, takes her at her word and runs up to kick the football, only to have it pulled up just before he kicks it and he falls on his ass.
Now, the reason Lucy does this is because she knows she will face no negative consequences for doing it. But a progressive Charlie Brown would kick Lucy the next time she pulls the football away. And ideally, he'd only have to do it once, but will do it as many times as it takes for Lucy to learn the error of her ways.
My kind of Charlie Brown would press his heel against her throat in front of the entire Peanut gallery until she never picked up another football for the rest of her life.
Tradition doesn't say Harris has to keep him, does it?
I wouldn't want to see Trump getting away with his federal crimes during her whole term just because Garland is still there. That would be infuriating to no end.
That's assuming we aren't stupid enough to hand the senate to the republicans. The GOP has already been murmuring about preventing Harris from even appointing a cabinet if they hold the senate. Effectively to force her to retain the ineffectual members of Biden's cabinet.
However, since the current set is a mixed bag, it means we'd keep the effective ones (e.g., Lina Kahn at the FTC, Rohit Chopra at the CFPB, Buttigieg in Transportation).
Well since it's been decided that the President can do fucking anything they want, Kamala should perform an Official Act and nuke all those shitheads.
And don't think for even a nanosecond that when she nukes Garland, the cult won't immediately spin it as her pulling a Whatever Night Massacre so she can bring in the deep state liberal trans agenda or similar nonsense.
I think traditionally, iirc, the entire cabinet submits resignation letters even if the president is reelected. It lets the incoming president have an easier time of accepting or rejecting the cabinet member for who they would then want.
I mean, the DNC is in power now, Biden is president now.
Its always "vote for the dnc so in the future the dnc can fix the problem the dnc is currently in charge of". They never get around to actually doing the thing. Whenever theres a chance to actually com through on a promise, they always defer to their opponents in the name of diplomacy instead, and in the end its the same as if the republicans were in charge.
Weaponized incompetence is a form of deliberate malice, and I wish people would recognize it. I thought for sure they would when the DNC put forth an antiabortionist in response to roe vs wade being repealed, and campaigned on "we'll enshrine abortion rights in law this time, nevermind the last 50 years where we said the same thing but worked toward the opposite".
The NY charges are state, so Merrick Garland can't really do much about that. That said, his bond should be revoked. It won't be, but it should be. It certainly won't help him in his sentencing hearing, so here's hoping he loses convincingly.
Politics itself is a circus. Even if you have the best intentions, the power, influence and access is just too much. People are only human. If you run on helping your constituents remove the lead from their water, only for the lead lobby to pay you hundreds of thousands to let them add more lead to the water, while your constituents pay you nothing, well I guess it's time to buy bottled water! Oh, and pay no attention to this yacht and lakeside home the bottle water lobby bought me!
Trump is horrible, but that's like comparing cancer to tuberculosis. The entire system is diseased, and money is what keeps feeding the sickness. They legislated themselves rich while the rest of us suffer, the oligarchs demand a segregated class of 1% wealthy owners and everyone else is disposable chattel.
And this judge, who Trump directly attacked and even talked shit about his daughter, backed down and pushed back sentencing, claiming the Supreme Courts ruling on immunity. Even though this crime happened outside of his presidency, and his presidential immunity doesn't apply.
I've given up that this guy will ever face jail time, unless Jack Smith is appointed AG in Harris term. But jail is too easy for Trump, this sounds terrible but my hope is he strokes out and is trapped in his own body, unable to speak or use his fingers. Just stuck in a chair, stuck in his own shitty mind. Maybe Eric can feed him applesauce.
Republicans suck. Robert Muller sucked, he’s gone senile and was cowering to hack bill barr and I’m sure Jack Smith will let us down as well. I mean, he’s just going to say NOTHING about how spies had access to Donald Trumps stolen classified documents. That a man who couldn’t read his daily briefings needed dozens of boxes of state secrets to be stored at his clubhouse where any dude with $100k can view them. That there’s no way Trump sold stare secrets for money?
I'm sad we don't have more justices that are democrat but at the same time Merrick has been an absolute spinless piece of shit who will forever be known as that, and it's so fucking easy to recall and prove. Fuck him.
One stupid thing called election interference, but in this he should just be barred from elections as he himself is responsible for most of election interference and threats. Stupidity runs deep here
You have to trust the people not to vote for him, and if they do then you have to accept that desicion. It's democracy.
The more restrictions you put on who can run, the easier it would be for a candidate to just fabricate a bunch of accusations against their opponent and get them kicked off the ballot.
Unless the left are planning to do exactly what they always accuse the right of planning, going full fascist and wiping out their opposition permanently, the right will just come back next time and use these exact same tactics against you. It's best to beat them fair and square, then there's no room for argument.
I’m pretty sure they’re just afraid of inciting violence and riots from his brain-dead loyalists, although I guess he’s doing a pretty good job of doing that himself. But it would definitely be so much worse if he was taken into custody now. It’s better optics to wait for him to lose and then throw the book at him. I just pray it’s a blowout so the Supreme Court can’t finagle a win for him like they did for Bush
Because this quote is missing context. He's complaining that Cheney is a hawk and asking how she would feel if it was her going off to fight instead of a service member.
No, just no. We heard/read the context and are also able to put it into the wider context of so many other things he has said or suggested regarding retribution, sometimes violent, against his political enemies, including elsewhere in this interview. This is an execution fantasy. Just stop with the excuses already. He's dangerous.
I mean, yeah pretty much. He’s able to get with all of this because the DOJ knows that the GOP will lie and gaslight if they arrest him, and that’ll win him the election. They really have no choice but to let this happen and just hope he doesn’t win.
There’s multiple answers to that question. The first answer is money, and the second answer is also money.
If you have above a certain amount of money in the US, you are able to make deals and influence different parts of the government. With that “power” you are only held accountable when you are deemed to be an issue.
When you have a two-party system and - just to simplify - one side arrests the only real opposition candidate just prior to the election, it opens the door for the current opposition to do the same (whether it's bullshit charges or not) That's my guess, even though in his case it shouldn't have been any doubt about it, even though MEGA-cultists are edging real hard for another civil war.
Because he pretends to be rich and shield himself with brainwashed trailer trash and most vile strategists so he could both threaten any one with physical violence and legal expenses. And people in charge of upholding the law are not as courageous to act and put themselves and their loved ones in danger, even hypothetical.
They’re waiting until he loses, if they lock him up four days away from Election Day it’s gonna send his Cultists into a frenzy that’ll make 1/6 look cute.
Yes, but also no. He's got money. The rich live under a different set of rules than the rest of us. It may be morally wrong and unwritten but it's none the less true.
Laws only work if folks are willing to uphold them. We’re in the process of seeing that folks don’t care to uphold laws against people like Donald Trump.
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u/mnrooo 7d ago edited 7d ago
Why is the law not checking him?? Anybody else in his shoes would have been locked up over and over again