What grade would you give Merrick Garland?

[kentuck]

74 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.
	4 (5%)
	C- He has been adequate at best.
	19 (26%)
	D- He has done very few things right under his tenure.
	20 (27%)
	F+ He has been an abject failure and should be replaced.
	30 (41%)
	None of the above.
	1 (1%)
	Other?
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[BannonsLiver]

1. D

For dithering.

[XanaDUer2]

3. Lol nt

[Prairie Gates]

2. Complete failure

Awful.

[republianmushroom]

17. Agree

41 months and counting (includes foot dragging)

[tritsofme]

4. I think lots of people have an incredibly strange and unhealthy obsession with the man.

[Ocelot II]

5. Yes. Many of us wish he'd moved more quickly on the Trump prosecutions, but

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]

6. The rules were clear when he sarted the game

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.

[Think. Again.]

7. Is it possible to grade work that hasn't been turned in?

[kansasobama]

11. He may not get a chance to turn in

That is the tragedy

[Think. Again.]

14. I mean the work he should have done BEFORE graduation.

[lees1975]

8. When Congress hands you the evidence you need to prosecute, and it's

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]

9. If Hillary had won in 2016, Garland would have been a terrific choice for AG.

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]

10. Nice man but a complete failure

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.

[NewHendoLib]

12. F-.

[Frasier Balzov]

13. He thought he was still a judge

when he should have been more of an advocate.

[Think. Again.]

15. I think you mean prosecuter?

[polichick]

16. R for RepubliCON

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

[The Third Doctor]

18. F. Garland is far too worried about political

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