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kentuck

(113,398 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 10:44 AM Jul 2024

What grade would you give Merrick Garland?


62 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
A+ No one could have done a better job.
0 (0%)
B+ He has been a very effective Attorney General.
3 (5%)
C- He has been adequate at best.
16 (26%)
D- He has done very few things right under his tenure.
14 (23%)
F+ He has been an abject failure and should be replaced.
28 (45%)
None of the above.
1 (2%)
Other?
0 (0%)
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What grade would you give Merrick Garland? (Original Post) kentuck Jul 2024 OP
D BannonsLiver Jul 2024 #1
Lol nt XanaDUer2 Jul 2024 #3
Complete failure Prairie Gates Jul 2024 #2
Agree republianmushroom Jul 2024 #17
I think lots of people have an incredibly strange and unhealthy obsession with the man. tritsofme Jul 2024 #4
Yes. Many of us wish he'd moved more quickly on the Trump prosecutions, but Ocelot II Jul 2024 #5
The rules were clear when he sarted the game jpug Jul 2024 #6
Is it possible to grade work that hasn't been turned in? Think. Again. Jul 2024 #7
He may not get a chance to turn in kansasobama Jul 2024 #11
I mean the work he should have done BEFORE graduation. Think. Again. Jul 2024 #14
When Congress hands you the evidence you need to prosecute, and it's lees1975 Jul 2024 #8
If Hillary had won in 2016, Garland would have been a terrific choice for AG. LonePirate Jul 2024 #9
Nice man but a complete failure kansasobama Jul 2024 #10
F-. NewHendoLib Jul 2024 #12
He thought he was still a judge Frasier Balzov Jul 2024 #13
I think you mean prosecuter? Think. Again. Jul 2024 #15
R for RepubliCON polichick Jul 2024 #16
F. Garland is far too worried about political The Third Doctor Aug 2024 #18

Ocelot II

(123,940 posts)
5. Yes. Many of us wish he'd moved more quickly on the Trump prosecutions, but
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 10:52 AM
Jul 2024

the accusations that he's some kind of GOP mole who intentionally sabotaged those cases are ridiculous. There are a few posters who don't seem to care about anything but Garland and have been beating the dead horse of the slow prosecutions to the exception of everything else. I don't even bother reading those posts any more.

 

jpug

(90 posts)
6. The rules were clear when he sarted the game
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 10:55 AM
Jul 2024

But he had ZERO sense of urgency.

Pathetic.

The evidence was so clear that Trump should have been locked up by mid-2021 and we don't have this mess in 2024.

lees1975

(6,370 posts)
8. When Congress hands you the evidence you need to prosecute, and it's
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 10:59 AM
Jul 2024

categorized, filed, proofed, and wrapped up in the complete package of an investigation, you don't sit on it and let it go until public pressure, and political pressure from within finally prompts you to appoint a special investigator. You go on television, announce the prosecution, make the other split their pants moving so fast and caught off guard, and then you use the pressure of your power and position to expedite court dates, prioritize the seriousness of the case, and get it to trial in a matter of months. It's been done before many times.

LonePirate

(14,068 posts)
9. If Hillary had won in 2016, Garland would have been a terrific choice for AG.
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 11:01 AM
Jul 2024

After the disaster that was the Trump administration, his efforts to stage a coup and the events of Jan. 6, we needed a piranha for an AG. Garland is a good man but he is not a piranha.

kansasobama

(1,716 posts)
10. Nice man but a complete failure
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 11:07 AM
Jul 2024

Being nice against Trump does not work. Scared of Trump for 2 years. Liz Cheney had to get him moving. Rachel Maddow rant made him make the first move. He thought he had all time in the world to convict Trump since he cannot run or win. He used special counsel to delay decisions. His legacy? Hunter Biden conviction, Menendez conviction, no action on Trump. Remember Trump's felony conviction was brought by NY, not Garland.

polichick

(37,626 posts)
16. R for RepubliCON
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 12:06 PM
Jul 2024

Garland gave immunity to the coup planners long before the SC did the same for Trump.

The Third Doctor

(428 posts)
18. F. Garland is far too worried about political
Sun Aug 25, 2024, 08:10 PM
Aug 2024

Optics over enforcing the law. The documents case should have been handled far earlier.

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