What kind of iirresponsible idiot was Merrick Garland?

[LiberalLovinLug]

175. Agree to disagree.

Or rather I'll come half ways and agree that justice moves slowly. And the legal hurdles took time.

But that doesn't preclude the power of striking hard when the iron is hot. In the political realm, if not the legal one. If you own the political discourse, you make it easier to expedite the legal one.

First, seeking an indictment for insurrection within months would have resulted in:

1. Likely failure to obtain an indictments from a grand jury

I disagree here. The evidence was already evident. It was all on national TV. There was enough to start with what they had. Then add new charges as they became available. The public for the most part would be on board when it was fresh in the mind. And they'd also have a few elected R's, at the time, who would have backed them.
It wasn't all on Garland.. The Democratic party also could have been as belilgerant and obnoxious as Republicans are when they smell an opportunity.

The Nation said in 2023
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-indictment-merrick-garland/

Small excerpt.
From the outset of his tenure atop the Justice Department, Attorney General Merrick Garland evinced little interest in mounting any such investigation, fearing that the GOP’s permanently aggrieved MAGA base would view it as a weaponized, partisan effort to hound Trump into political irrelevance. As a blockbuster report by The Washington Post’s Carol D. Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis revealed this June, for a full year after the insurrection, Garland’s team looking into January 6 “consisted of just four prosecutors working with agents with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the National Archives and Records Administration.”