By delaying any investigation or prosecution of Trump until almost two years after he became attorney general, Garland hamstrung Jack Smith, the dogged and beleaguered special counsel, leaving little time for the predictable unpredictabilities of two high-stakes prosecutions. Both were as solid as federal cases get, and now neither has any chance of being completed before the election, leaving voters without clear legal conclusions about Trump’s responsibility for the Jan. 6 riot and the highly classified documents he took from the White House.

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  • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Right?

    Picking him as AG was absolutely baffling to me at the time, and it’s panned out to be perhaps the worst pick in the entirety of the Biden administration. Like, genuinely, the only worse play off the top of my head would have been to just keep Bill Barr around.

      • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I agree DeJoy is extremely bad, but a proper AG would have swept him out with the rest of the trash too, seeing as he aided and abetted the election fraud and interference that Trump perpetrated.