comment_id,post_id,post_title,body,score,created_utc
kinjpqz,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"[FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year.In the DOJ’s investigation of Jan. 6, key Justice officials also quashed an early plan for a task force focused on people in Trump’s orbit](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/)

[Garland let the statute of limitations expire on the 10 instances of Trump's obstruction of justice listed in the Mueller report](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRYiPzDP94I).

[Ignored Jan 6. cmt criminal referrals of Meadows and Scavino.and hasn't done shit about Eastman,Clark,Giuliani,](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/politics/justice-department-declines-charge-meadows-scavino-january-6/index.html). 

[Is ignoring all the criminal referrals that NYAG Letitia James sent to DOJ regarding Trump's financial crimes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cjqkepQJfg&t=1544s). 

[Ignored the fake electors referrals that Michigan AG Nessel sent to DOJ](https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-michigan-elections-electoral-college-criminal-investigations-8a0454f0a28fd3f5903fa3ab962f764b).",1600,2024-01-19 22:07:36
kin5i1b,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,[deleted],943,2024-01-19 20:46:34
kincuyj,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Oh, so you didn't hear us shouting at you in 2021, then.  Thanks for clearing it up, Merrick.",914,2024-01-19 21:28:21
kinwv4r,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"It’s almost as if the system is allergic to real accountability for Presidents, as they do so much of the nation’s dirty work the Congress doesn’t want to do",759,2024-01-19 23:28:04
kio3q7b,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Look at Merrick Garland’s connections and history and place them next to his actions as OP has laid out so well. Merrick Garland is a GOP plant, he was a terribly bad choice for AG, let alone a supreme court justice, Democrats like Biden and Obama have failed at assessing and measuring the vileness of the GOP and their determination to bring about a fascist USA. The AG pick should have been a Corpo buster and civil rights champion. Merrick Garland is none of those. 

Instead of pussyfooting around appearances of political bias, Biden’s steps should have been decisively protectionist of US democracy. They went for the bipartisan unity bullshit to appease what is now the Republican MAGA party and the entire planet will pay the price.",479,2024-01-20 00:12:29
kina43j,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Trump will want to delay the trial so the verdict is close to the election so he can amp up the political messaging. He needs to go on trial with a verdict before the election.

Of course, if he loses he's still going to go nuts - but he won't have the power like he did before to do things.",375,2024-01-19 21:12:42
kinbzmr,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Fuck this Federalist Society milquetoast asshole. He sat on his fucking hands for two years. Biden’s worst appointment by far; a consolation prize because he didn’t get on the SCOTUS.,268,2024-01-19 21:23:23
kio1lyw,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"No shit. A speedy trial stopped being an option once 2022 hit. At this point can we just get a trial, in general, for God's sake? Even that is looking increasingly unlikely.",223,2024-01-19 23:58:36
kin87wx,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Hopelessly slow Garland.,191,2024-01-19 21:01:59
kindln6,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"We need judges to start denying motions that are clearly delay tactics. Stop letting people make a mockery of the judicial system. Trials should be speedy, whether the defendant wants it or not.",173,2024-01-19 21:32:35
kioj904,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Agreed. The ""Bipartisan Unity"" trap is one both Obama fell for and Biden keeps falling for. 

Much like Charlie Brown always trusts Lucy to keep that football in place.",169,2024-01-20 01:56:08
kindhas,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Your last point is crucial. The coup did as well as it did partially because he was actually still in power at the time. While there is still risk of violence and problems, the system now anticipates those problems upfront, which will make it much harder to pull off.

At least, that's the hope.

The big truth is people need to make a voting plan and have backups in place too, and also help everyone they know do it. Ignore polls (good or bad). Just register, vote, and spend time or increasing turnout and persuasion of those on the fence.

And learn to recognize propaganda and ignore it. Tune out the bad actors, even when they say they're on the left, or whatever.",151,2024-01-19 21:31:53
kioqz68,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Absolutely. Merrick Garland's only real qualification for the Supreme Court was that Obama thought (wrongly as it turned out) that he was such a mild inoffensive centrist that even the GOP wouldn't object to him, then he got Attorney General as a consolation prize.

I've been saying this all along but the Attorney General should've been Doug Jones. Jones successfully prosecuted the 16th Street Baptist Church bombers, which means he took on the KKK in *Alabama* and **won**. Then he ran for Senate as a Democrat in Alabama and won **again**. (Briefly. It is Alabama after all, we were bound to default back to making the dumbest decisions possible before long. Hence Tommy Tuberville's embarrassingly stupid ass.) Point is, Doug Jones' resume is not the resume of someone who shies away from a difficult fight. He would've torn into Trump immediately, not sat on his hands for a full year before even considering halfassedly starting an investigation.

Garland on the other hand has been telegraphing ""I really don't want to deal with prosecuting a former president because the consequences are scary and people will get mad, can we all just collectively look the other way and forget it all happened"" since Day 1. He couldn't have wanted this fight any less if he'd tried, and he couldn't have made it any clearer if he had tried either. He was absolutely the wrong choice to restore normalcy and the rule of law in the United States after the Trump Administration, and we're all going to pay the price for his spinelessness and Biden's refusal to treat this situation with the seriousness it deserved.",149,2024-01-20 02:50:17
kio2hft,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,His response was terrifyingly absent. I kept waiting for the news every day that they were going to hold these people accountable and slowly became 2022 and then 2023……,132,2024-01-20 00:04:19
kiooawu,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"The investigation should have started Jan 21st, 2021.

I hate when people say ""The wheels of justice turn slowly"".

Sure, they do, but you didn't start turning them for nearly two years.",131,2024-01-20 02:31:17
kinry9b,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"That might be convincing had they been gathering evidence, but Garland didn't do shit until the House Jan 6 committee embarrassed the DoJ into taking action.  They didn't want to appear political.",97,2024-01-19 22:57:07
kio2qz7,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"I truly feel they’re/ have been just waiting for him to die. Like they were banking on the stress of all this topping him off, or, making him so rattled he bottles the election",79,2024-01-20 00:06:03
kin5r7e,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"His reasoning was that this was a big case, arguably the biggest in the nations history. If he got it wrong, and didn’t gather an overwhelming amount of evidence, it would just martyr trump and his cause and make it look like a witch hunt that failed.",78,2024-01-19 20:48:00
kio43f9,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Not just, presidents. It’s white collar crime. It’s just like the IRS doesn’t have the funds or manpower to go after wealthy tax evaders and the republicans don’t want to give it to them.
Prosecuting the blue collar commoner for the usual is cheap, easy, and routine. A well staffed assembly line.
Prosecuting white collar criminals is hard work, tricky and expensive. And we all know which group the movers and shakers are in.",66,2024-01-20 00:14:57
kinljxx,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"This is not true.  Garland doesn't investigate D.C. crimes, that would the the US Attorney of Washington, D.C., who was block by the GOP for the first 10 months of of 2021 and then investigated Trump until they handed the investigation off to Smith (meanwhile they prosecuted over 1000 other Jan 6th criminals).",65,2024-01-19 22:18:23
kindrlu,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Go with the slow Garland,61,2024-01-19 21:33:32
kiotuvg,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Absolutely. It was gross negligence imo for them to delay the investigation at all. What happened on 1/6 is a huge fucking deal but you'd never know it by their actions. 

The wheels of justice definitely don't move slowly for us plebs.",59,2024-01-20 03:10:50
kiniumt,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,https://fedsoc.org/contributors/merrick-garland,58,2024-01-19 22:02:37
kio62ff,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Whaaa? I can't believe Merrick ""Don't forget I'm a Republican"" Garland would do any of that",54,2024-01-20 00:27:55
kinbbh8,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,I guess hes never heard about Robert Mueller?,54,2024-01-19 21:19:32
kinihsx,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Like the DC court with the immunity, they could have come out the next day and ruled, it was such a ridiculous notion.  What is their hold up?",52,2024-01-19 22:00:33
kinfipi,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"It's too bad that saving our country comes down to our country actually doing what we claim we are all about ""Liberty and justice for, ALL""",50,2024-01-19 21:43:36
kinvfxx,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"That's my favorite line to hear (not from you, just in general):

""Didn't want to appear political"" --- for looking into political crimes.

Makes me chuckle every time.",48,2024-01-19 23:19:04
kiomppv,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"> Merrick Garland is a GOP plant

I mean...no, come on. He was picked by Obama in 2015 to be on SCOTUS with a long history of being respected by almost everyone. If he was a GOP plant or secretly evil, he certainly did a terrible job of being either in his decades as a federal judge. 

The simple truth is he's an old, institutionalist boomer who still thinks ""bipartisanship"" is a real thing and that if he plays by the rules everyone else will too. He's way too cautious and naive sure, but he's not some nefarious Republican insurgent.",47,2024-01-20 02:20:03
kiopvy9,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Its also the trap [Paul Von Hindenburg](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/paul-von-hindenburg) fell [for.](https://isj.org.uk/divided-they-fell-the-german-left-and-the-rise-of-hitler/) its really wild how responsible the center lefts ""we take the high road"" style moderatism has only [Enabled the nazis historically](https://jacobin.com/2020/01/rosa-luxemburg-murder-waldemar-pabst-germany)",47,2024-01-20 02:42:29
kino887,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,This fuck should be prosecuted for this shit too. Sat on his hands and did nothing. For years.,42,2024-01-19 22:34:24
kinfa68,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,well a bit f* late Garland.,39,2024-01-19 21:42:13
kin7qf0,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,he's the fucking hot dog guy who just got out of his crashed car,35,2024-01-19 20:59:11
kipe6nl,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Yep. Biden has done many good things, but his appointment of merrick Garland was a massive fuck up and could end up costing him a second term and the rest of us our democracy",34,2024-01-20 06:00:34
kintgkx,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"The federalist society mission directly undermines our democratic system. Just because it's well connected doesn't mean a person should be ""professional"" and work with them.",34,2024-01-19 23:06:36
kio6jiv,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Everyone except the maga voters have been hoping that this would have been the resolution. Sorry folks, but he's probably living at least to 85.",33,2024-01-20 00:31:05
kio8an5,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,POS delayed for almost 4 years. I can't believe Garland has the NERVE to talk about SPEEDY 🖕,32,2024-01-20 00:42:46
kioi8k8,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"It happens every time...  The Dems don't want to look like the bad guys.  If they started arresting Republicans - no matter how justified - it would look like they were targeting their political opponents.  As a result, they are ***loathe*** to do it.  That's why it's always gotta be a special prosecutor or something like that.",32,2024-01-20 01:49:20
kiousih,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"What, you don't think we'd be free three years later if we tried to overthrow the government, stole top secret documents, obstructed justice, defrauded the IRS and received foreign money for policy changes?

I thought this was America!!!",32,2024-01-20 03:17:44
kingx8a,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Yep when I think ""Merrick Garland"" I think ""Speedy."" Yep.",31,2024-01-19 21:51:36
kioly1x,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Its such a stretch to call Garland a GOP Plant.

Hes just some lifer who doesnt wanna rock the boat.",31,2024-01-20 02:14:42
kio1q21,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Honestly, in this instance doing his job would have exposed Merrick to risks and difficulty he was unwilling to undertake, as his job is normally pretty quiet and tidy.

In other words, he failed to do his job when it was most necessary and vital to the survival of our republic.

So, fack that guy.  As a small business owner, I have to take risks and work hard every. Merrick is  paid extremely well and has health insurance on the public dime and when he's needed he does not do his job.",30,2024-01-19 23:59:21
kinne1u,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Where was this energy 3 years ago?,29,2024-01-19 22:29:20
kiot1ka,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,they're too busy rolling back the power of agencies to regulate,29,2024-01-20 03:04:57
kioxt55,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"> I've been saying this all along but the Attorney General should've been Doug Jones.

You're 100% right.",29,2024-01-20 03:40:22
kinhpwl,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Isn't a little late for that?  He should have already had a trial, and be in jail.",28,2024-01-19 21:56:07
kiomdut,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Yeah, fuck this dude. Maybe there could have been a trial in time if he'd gotten off his ass and upheld the law instead of putting out fires for the GOP.

Fuck Garland and fuck Biden for appointing him. Also, fuck every idiot to the left of Republicans that cheered for Garland's appointment as if it was some sort of ""revenge"" thing.",26,2024-01-20 02:17:47
kip0r4o,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,[removed],26,2024-01-20 04:02:55
kiojf7o,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,I’m not convinced that the timing wasn’t set to coincide with election year.,26,2024-01-20 01:57:17
kio58zr,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"To be fair, Chutkan did come out soon after and rule against it. Problem is that it was inevitably going to the circuit (where we are now) and eventually SCOTUS.

That particular appeal was always going to delay, and basically Trump's best opportunity to do so. There was no way around it. Legal pundits had been pointing to it for months. Two reasons why:

- Immunity is treated differently by the courts than other matters. If the defendant's immunity isn't resolved, it will often result in a complete stay (pause) of proceedings. Because if the defendant were to win (which courts have to assume is a possibility), it would basically make the entire prosecution moot.

- Presidential *criminal* immunity has never been adjudicated in American history because a President has never been charged before. And given that Presidents do enjoy immunity in some ways (such as civil proceedings - Fitzgerald v Nixon), it was always an issue that needed resolution.

So, they need to go through the motions. And even on the fastest timelines plausible, it will still probably take a few months when all is said and done.

The silver lining is that Trump will be setting a precedent and if a future President is indicted, they will have a much harder time getting a delay from it.",26,2024-01-20 00:22:32
kinsmqh,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"I view that far more dimly.  It's more like the Confederate Society, as far as I'm concerned.",26,2024-01-19 23:01:22
kipb5pw,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"The Airforce guy who leaked docs to his gaming discord was in prison days after he was found to have mishandled and leaked classified docs. 


Trump still has his passport after the FBI removed dozens of crates of docs that he refused to turn over, and they didn't even retrieve all the docs he is known to have. 


Conservatives, when you whine about ""two justice systems"", you're right, and this is what they are.",26,2024-01-20 05:31:43
kinz921,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"2024 doesn’t fucking loom, you feckless slug!  It’s bleeding out in the table in front of you.",25,2024-01-19 23:43:23
kinqpt7,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"He did shit fuck all for two years. Way to go, idiot.",25,2024-01-19 22:49:32
kinjl8d,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"“A person listed as a contributor has spoken or otherwise participated in Federalist Society events, publications, or multimedia presentations. A person's appearance on this list does not imply any other endorsement or relationship between the person and the Federalist Society.”

I think we should investigate what “contributor” means in this context. I would like to know, so I’m going to look into this. It wouldn’t surprise me if Merrick Garland wrote a something for the Federalist Society. They are, after all, a HUGE player in today’s judiciary, unfortunately.

Edit: Okay, I see that they also show the events he has spoken at further down the page. I think from these events that its clear Merrick Garland isn’t someone who “belongs” with the Federalist Society. He has, however, been invited to be a moderator, speaker, or panelist at Federalist-Society-adjacent events. That seems pretty harmless and professional to me.",25,2024-01-19 22:06:52
kinip37,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Is he a part of the Federalist Society?  Or is this just a strange way of accusing Merrick Garland of secretly being a pro-conservative, pro-New Federalist pawn that is working to dismantle individual rights under the guise of constitutional originalism?

If I had to guess…Merrick Garland isn’t that haha.",24,2024-01-19 22:01:43
kinzax7,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"It's not supposed to be.

The point of the post is to remind people that protecting democracy takes action. Not sitting still with anxiety or twitter posting and reading media articles. This board has a rampant problem with negative dooming, and trolls who act to try and supress direct action. However, it has a wide reach so I still use it.

We need to either be proactive on our screens about sharing good info, or get off of our screens and reach real people. That's what it's going to take. Many elections were won because people did exactly that, and when people chose not to do it in 2010, 2014, and 2016? Your average person suffered the setbacks of apathy and low turnout, especially in primaries and at the local level.

I love the internet. I love what it's made possible, but in truth the corporate backed media and social media companies are now an obstacle and need to be utilized with skeptic caution or bypassed entirely. Any posts I do on here are now designed for one purpose; counter propaganda and motivating people to organize and act.

When I say hope, it's because I can't predict the future. But we have a much better chance of a better outcome if we prepare, and at least for the moment, that involves becoming active participants in democracy during an election year, and rejecting negative and baseless speculation based on things actions actually have a shot at changing.

The same is true whether we work to change our society electorally, or via other means if stuff goes south, but while electoral options are still open to us, we're morally obligated to use them.",24,2024-01-19 23:43:42
kinbudt,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Saying ""group conspired to do thing"" with shoddy (or no) evidence is a theory on a conspiracy. Let me know if you have any other questions.",24,2024-01-19 21:22:33
kinsx8c,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Dereliction of Duty.,23,2024-01-19 23:03:13
kio65zf,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,That's a fignuggin gavel drop! Very well said.,23,2024-01-20 00:28:34
kio3j5h,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Except he *is* the AG, he doesn't have one over him spinning the result. Also Don is no longer a sitting president, meaning that the arguably unconstitutional OLC memo doesn't apply.",23,2024-01-20 00:11:11
kinybu6,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,People need to check and see if they are still registered to vote. My name changed since I last registered and it's a good thing I checked or I could have been turned away at the poll.,22,2024-01-19 23:37:27
kio7nkf,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"I think stress, like empathy, is something Trump does not feel.",21,2024-01-20 00:38:27
kinvbq8,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"This is the internet. You can say ""fucking""",20,2024-01-19 23:18:19
kin9nc4,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,This is /r/politics. You want /r/conspiracy.,20,2024-01-19 21:10:03
kip6vb9,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Have you all noticed how trump has never really talked shit about Garland? I've been saying since day one, Garland is the worst pick ever to lead the DOJ",19,2024-01-20 04:53:19
kio57we,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Any update as to when the SCOTUS is going to rule on his bullshit immunity claim and why haven’t they already done so yet?,19,2024-01-20 00:22:20
kipru9c,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Well if there's anything that Donald Trump taught us, it's that the President can fire whoever he wants on a whim and no one will care. Biden should have replaced Garland by now",19,2024-01-20 08:36:07
kinz2xs,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,in a surprising turn of events. the two tiered judicial system is reluctant to prosecute obvious crimes by the wealthy.,18,2024-01-19 23:42:18
kio5tnw,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Exactly, the bones are the money, so are the worms.",18,2024-01-20 00:26:19
kipc3or,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Fuck *yes* Doug Jones should have been AG. It would have made a clear, profound statement about what America thinks of fucking white supremacist scumbags who try to end our democracy. 


Milquetoast Merrick sat on his hands for years so he didn't have to greenlight anything, hoping America would just forget Jan 6.",18,2024-01-20 05:40:32
kipgit3,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Nah man.  The example you are looking for is Jim Comey.  His high index bull shit personally handed us DJT and the likely end of democracy.  He couldn’t control the literal Russian intelligence employee working COUNTER INTEL in the NY field office.  Turns out he was getting paid by Manaforts puppet master.,18,2024-01-20 06:24:36
kip799b,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Say it with me everybody: ""appeasement never works"". 

For all that he made the mistake himself (initially), Neville Chamberlain learned entirely too well that the only way to deal with authoritarians is to take a firm and *early* stance in opposition. The longer you let them be the stronger they already are when you realize what actually has to happen and do something about it.",18,2024-01-20 04:56:38
kinbwxn,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"I don't think they wanted to do this during the election... Garland was hoping Trump would disappear from the spotlight for his crimes, like W. Bush did.    

Garland was entirely wrong, and the nation, and our international alliances will face the consequences",17,2024-01-19 21:22:58
kindwmg,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Where is your evidence that this is what Garland planned?,17,2024-01-19 21:34:20
kioj78r,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Adam Schiff AG,16,2024-01-20 01:55:48
kiokv5o,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Just to clarify, you are saying that the guy that Obama nominated for the SC and was blocked by the GOP...is actually a GOP plant? Wouldn't it have been better to have a ""liberal"" plant on the court for life?",16,2024-01-20 02:07:11
kip1xfo,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"In many ways it's the playbook of the ""elitists"" that run our country. They have long since given up on any fiery idealism, they made a comfortable career for themselves respecting and becoming part of the status quo. They never really had any sauce, never took any personal risk, or did anything too far off the ""success in life"" playbook. The problem is when it comes to an actual crisis you need to actually have an ethos that guides your decision making, come hell or high water, you need to act in a crisis. These people are so wrapped up in pretense and high minded bullshit they forget what the fuck they are doing- their job- not their ""legacy"" or ""role in history"". You see over and over, the self mythology overtakes substantive work. Hillary didn't campaign well that's why she lost-  her own hubris gave us DJT- she didn't read the room of the rage and disappointment all over America.  She didn't want to see that part of America, the deplorables. She never connected with the voters, she can sulk all she wants, but she had a massive role in this whole timeline. Just as Merrick Garland's cowardice will play a huge role going forward as our country moves toward a really big constitutional crisis/ shitshow.",16,2024-01-20 04:12:11
kinydr4,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"I’m having a hard time listening to anything this man has to say. The ONLY thing I’ve seen him do was a point Jack Smith. Before and since then I picture him hiding underneath his desk! I mean seriously, where the hell has he been?! I know he has other cases he’s dealing with but I feel he’s purposely distanced himself from anything to do “trump”! Correct me if I’m wrong! Please!",15,2024-01-19 23:37:47
kio0wwb,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,My brother in Christ you are the one who was insufficiently alacritous in leading the charge with prosecuting Trump,15,2024-01-19 23:54:08
kinrufh,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Should HAVE BEEN a speedy trial, you complicit fuckbucket",15,2024-01-19 22:56:27
kiocks8,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,You can't skip lunch. You just can't.,15,2024-01-20 01:11:27
kipbsdw,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Appeasement never works, and tolerance of intolerance and the intolerant ends in fascism every fucking time. 


Fascists don't just go away or get bored. You have to make them go away.",15,2024-01-20 05:37:34
kipbhrl,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,If we stole even *one* of the dozens of boxes of top secret nuclear and military secrets that trump did we wouldn't even have a public trial. We'd disappear and the government would refuse to acknowledge what happened to us for 100 years.,15,2024-01-20 05:34:51
kio5d4q,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Can the DOJ do anything about Judge Aileen Cannon or is she just allowed to be an obstructionist traitor?,14,2024-01-20 00:23:17
kinnoan,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Merrick. You only have yourself to blame.,14,2024-01-19 22:31:02
kin6e7t,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"It's always a fine balance with fascists


 Would have thought we'd learn from our mistakes after misbalancing over-arming Soviet fascists against the Nazis 


Don't we have think tanks for this shit? Like what if a Nazi commits an insurrection with a quarter of domestic support?",14,2024-01-19 20:51:34
kindnye,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"If it’s not a conspiracy please provide your evidence that the justice department, garland, and/or smith delayed the trials until THIS year.",14,2024-01-19 21:32:57
kinwnxz,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Or even, where was Merrick three years ago",13,2024-01-19 23:26:46
kincchm,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,What I posted isn't an opinion.,13,2024-01-19 21:25:25
kinreww,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Garland wanted to sweep this under the rug. Some people have no trouble ignoring serious offenses, if it lets them pretend nothing is wrong. Congress embarrassed him, and Trump wouldn’t stop openly committing felonies: only reason anything happened at all. ",12,2024-01-19 22:53:49
kin5zx4,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Too late for that call,12,2024-01-19 20:49:21
kipkqnk,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"> When asked about the perception that the Justice Department is prosecuting Trump for political reasons, Garland said: “Of course it concerns me.”

This is why it ever got this far. The last concern Garland should have had, let alone have now, was that naysayers being charged with election interference related crimes would naysay this is election interference against them…

You see how dumb it sounds when wrapped into a sentence? Garland drug his feet to avoid it getting here. It got here because he dragged his feet. His concern is concerning consternation. Absurd.",12,2024-01-20 07:11:15
kiotv69,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Yeah, Garland is a useless a--hole.",12,2024-01-20 03:10:54
kio2nc6,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Yeah but then they can’t get outraged about things they’re wrong about and don’t know the details of. Can’t have that on reddit.,12,2024-01-20 00:05:24
kinerts,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Neither was Hitler, apparently (from the far right crowd who says he was socialist). They both were, even Mussolini thought so.  


Stalinism had/has every characteristic of fascism, it was about as non-fascist as north korea is democratic republic 


The term 'red fascism' was an early recognition of this. The whole 'great patriotic war to end fascism' was a farce. It was just two ideologically incompatablie fascist factions who no longer needed each other to rise to power",12,2024-01-19 21:39:18
kioh2m9,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Hyperbole, but imagine if we were talking about the KKK instead.

>I think from these events that its clear Merrick Garland isn’t someone who “belongs” with the KKK. He has, however, been invited to be a moderator, speaker, or panelist at KKK-adjacent events. That seems pretty harmless 

Any involvement at all is legitimizing to the organization in question.",12,2024-01-20 01:41:34
kion7ds,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"The number one rule in the establishment is not to rock the boat.  Joe Biden is an establishment member with a capital E,  and you can argue that was needed after the 4 year orange clown show to bring some normalcy back.  Anyway not sure what anybody expected from his choice here.",12,2024-01-20 02:23:28
kinsyqw,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Exactly Garland just wants to deflect blame that rightfully rests with the justice department under his tenure.,11,2024-01-19 23:03:30
kinh5we,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,In the meantime several smaller cases against him have fizzled making it seem like every judicial/legal action against him is a witch hunt and just making the big ones seem unimportant.,11,2024-01-19 21:52:58
kiox418,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Officially feb 8 if you don't hear the arguments by Feb 9 assume it'll happen Jan 21 2029,11,2024-01-20 03:35:04
kion6pz,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Garland was nominated because Obama couldn't handle a battle and accepted Mitch's choice.,11,2024-01-20 02:23:21
kin7xx7,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Well yes, it's pretty obvious, Trump and his team will continue to stall for time in order to prevent any court from convicting him prior to upcoming elections, and specifically of crimes as serious as amounting to insurrection or conspiring to unlawfully overturn an election and disenfranchise millions of Americans, all while Republicans are arguing that Trump cannot be stricken from any ballot if he hasn't been convicted of engaging in an insurrection in a court of law. (Impeachment conveniently doesn't count, and neither does common sense nor the evidence and witness testimonies presented in cases like the Jan 6 investigation that have revealed far more than is needed to indict and convict)

So the idea is, argue that Trump has not been convicted in a court of law, while doing everything necessary to push back a trial and conviction to after the election, perhaps even in the hopes that Trump can pardon himself of any federal crimes. (You might have read that as ""alter"" the election, and I suppose you could definitely read it as both)",10,2024-01-19 21:00:24
kinb6y6,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,🤦good lord. Dude has forgot what he does for money,10,2024-01-19 21:18:49
kio96v1,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Da balls on dis fuckin guy!  Marone!,10,2024-01-20 00:48:45
kip5igm,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"State employee of a blue state here.  In my personal experience lots of people in management roles in government are deathly afraid of rocking the boat.  *Especially* people who are not elected.  If something goes wrong, it could end your career.  And because you rocked the boat, no one else wants to hire you, even if you technically did the ""right"" thing.  It can often be frustratingly difficult to get a senior manager to give the OK to move forward on a major case unless they are 100000% sure you will win, or unless there is direct political pressure from above.

It is wildly frustrating, coming from the perspective of the guy whose job it used to be in part to try to convince those senior managers to give the go ahead to move cases forward.",10,2024-01-20 04:41:51
kiorgn9,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Trump didn't do his dirt in a vacuum. There's no telling how many people who want his crimes ignored because they may be implicated as well.,10,2024-01-20 02:53:42
kipkfal,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"""Plant"" is probably a bit extreme. Is he conservative and sympathetic to the Republicans and conservatives in general? Signs point to: Yes.",10,2024-01-20 07:07:39
kipaiyg,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Great. Where was that thought 3 fucking years ago, Merrick? We could have had this shit settled by now.",9,2024-01-20 05:25:50
kio1uye,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"A reminder that all of Trump's crimes and the ones he is saying he will commit once in office would not be posable without the support of elected and appointed republicans and members of the RNC at the federal state and local level across this nation.
  

  
Not all elections happen on election day. Watch for any elections near you and vote out as many right-wingers and Republicans as you can. From the school boards to the white house every election matters. Don't forget the primaries. We vote out republicans and primary out uncooperative democrats.
  

  
https://ballotpedia.org/Elections\_calendar",9,2024-01-20 00:00:14
kin5e25,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,He seems to disagree.,9,2024-01-19 20:45:55
kiow4w2,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Well maybe Biden should delay the 2024 election so that Trump can get his trials done fairly with enough time. After all, Trump argues that the POTUS has unlimited power and is totally unaccountable, and doesn't even swear an oath to ""uphold the Constitution.""",9,2024-01-20 03:27:43
kinrsqk,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Seriously.  Who woke him up?,9,2024-01-19 22:56:11
kinstmb,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Literally everything in your comment is untrue.

Trump has shown he's frightened of his own shadow. Watch him walk. Look at his tweets. Tough people don't post copium until 4am at three posts a minute when they're tough. They go to sleep.

COVID has been infinitely better managed under Biden than Trump, and if Trump hadn't scrapped the Obama-Biden pandemic response plan out of spite (see tough man rebuttal above), it probably would be significantly less of an issue.

Oil production in the US is higher than it ever has been. The US is a net energy exporter.

Inflation is primarily caused by the outfall of the pandemic, again, see Trump's terrible record for why that's the root of the cause.

Immigration will never be addressed so long as the GOP exist. It's their bread and butter fear stoker for southern Americans. ""They're coming for your jobs!"" GOP congress folk have withdrawn immigration reform from the table in order to keep Biden from being able to actually solve the problem.

Your cost of living is up because we are suffering the consequences of Reaganomics thirty years on. You are a commodity to corporations and Trump likes that. He runs the Oval Office like a business and business loves customers.

Ironically, Hillary Clinton was investigated way more than Trump and the evidence vetted her every time. Trump, on the other hand, is on Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs, is settling rape cases as I write this, has failed the emoluments clause and is on trial for theft of state secrets that he most likely provided to a foreign power.

You are either ignorant, delusional or a fucking bot.",9,2024-01-19 23:02:35
kinl3cy,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Garland probably thought the Republican Party would reject Trump and that he'd become persona non grata. Republicans are not the honorable people Garland thinks they are.,9,2024-01-19 22:15:40
kior5f7,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,It's not really a trap. All of these families are all somehow linked together. The illusion of choice,9,2024-01-20 02:51:30
kiopund,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"And because he waited two years, it's now possible that the trial won't be completed before (god forbid) Trump takes office again, and *the exact same thing happens again*.",9,2024-01-20 02:42:13
kipjp5v,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,I’d like one day to find out the full extent of their influence in the NYPD and the FBI.,9,2024-01-20 06:59:27
kio5wwv,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Yup. Everyone's like 'but communism never works, communism BAD!'

Except all the actual communist governments get ousted by authoritarians and fascists in short order. Happens every time. Fascism as an ideology needs to be stamped out.",9,2024-01-20 00:26:55
kip9mrq,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Says the guy dragging his ass on it,8,2024-01-20 05:17:41
kin748v,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,It should be for national security reasons among other reasons.,8,2024-01-19 20:55:39
kinrrv5,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,[deleted],8,2024-01-19 22:56:02
kinvbpg,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Fuck you, Merrick.",8,2024-01-19 23:18:19
kinqinz,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,It would have been nice if he would have felt this way in 2021.,8,2024-01-19 22:48:19
kipmjfv,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Remember when all the institutionalist redditors where saying it was all part of a slow burn.

Or whatever happened to DeJoy being removed being another slow burn? Or the covid waiving of asylum rights that was also a matter of critique before but doesn’t matter now",8,2024-01-20 07:32:16
kiord65,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"During the first impeachment, one legal professor said, ""Too fast. Let the wheels of justice turn.""  But now, like with Nixon, we have a court system who has a responsibility.  One Supreme Court Justice needs to recuse himself, given his wife's role in January 6.  And the SCOTUS overall needs ot decide QUICKLY.  And the media needs to cover this.",8,2024-01-20 02:53:01
kioc2gc,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"You're welcome
https://youtu.be/WLfAf8oHrMo?si=DZAcVpn6Zsfev65S",8,2024-01-20 01:08:03
kipldeg,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"I agree; once Garland was given the job there was really no way for Biden to replace him that wouldn't have looked like direct political interference in DOJ affairs. My point is that Garland was **never** the right choice and even a cursory glance at his career could have told Biden that. Hell, the reason Obama tapped him for the Supreme Court was because Obama was trying (futilely, as usual) to extend an olive branch to the Republicans by selecting someone who was NOT a fighter, just a lukewarm centrist who would make as few waves as possible. There weren't going to be any scathing dissents coming from Justice Garland, he'd just quietly vote in line with the majority and not rock the boat. He was a compromise pick offered to people who were never interested in compromising.

Obama's reasons for selecting him alone should have told Biden he was the wrong man for the moment. Jones should have been the pick from the beginning, but Biden has always deluded himself into thinking that Trump is the disease, not just a symptom of it, and that once Trump is gone everything will return to the normal bipartisan horse-trading status quo. So by Biden's thinking there was no need for anyone to aggressively pursue legal consequences for the people that tried to overthrow the goddamned government. But he is disastrously wrong about that. 

January 6th was our Beer Hall Putsch, and unfortunately Biden and Garland chose to perfectly reproduce the Weimar Republic's halfassed lukewarm response to it: throw a few of the minor league nobodies in jail for a little while and make no serious attempts to take down any of the ringleaders for fear of angering their supporters. We've already seen that movie and we know how it ends.

Had Jones been the AG instead even sitting Congressmen like Josh Hawley would be worried about legal repercussions. Instead he's just running wild with all the others, making the exact same rhetoric but even more loudly, because he knows perfectly well that nothing will happen to him. We've taught the MAGA Cult the same lesson Weimar Germany taught the Nazis: we're too timid to prosecute their leaders, so they can participate fully in the next attempt to seize control of the government instead of just letting random morons wearing Viking helmets lead the charge while they hang back and wait to see what happens. Well, now they've seen what happens: nothing. They tested the waters, and the waters were fine. Next time they're going to be all in, and it's going to make 1/6 look like a polite debate.

Biden seems to think winning the next election will be enough. It won't. That's not how America works anymore, and the fact that he's going to be one of the last people to fully grasp the significance of that is going to lead us to disaster.",8,2024-01-20 07:18:38
kion5sm,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Except he's not a Republican, he's an Independent as far as I know. He worked in Clinton's DOJ and when he was being voted on in the Senate for a federal judge position the only No votes were from Republicans.",8,2024-01-20 02:23:10
kiofzy5,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,If there is a speedy trial it'll be no thanks to Merrick fucking Garland.,7,2024-01-20 01:34:22
kinyrxy,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,MFer wasted 2 goddam years.,7,2024-01-19 23:40:19
kipgueg,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"You’re forgetting: The justice system IS a mockery. It’s a joke. Not just criminal justice, but almost all courts. I mean, it’s 2024 and judges are still wearing brown robes and banging hammers. It’s a pissing contest where actual laws take a backseat to posturing, pandering, showboating, and egotism. Drug addicts are in jail while rapists get probation. Lawyers get hearings adjourned hours or minutes before they’re supposed to start. Judges can have a bad day and ruin anyone’s life they want. It’s a joke.",7,2024-01-20 06:27:59
kintx8m,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,I assume this is satire. No one is paying $5.50 for gas currently. Also if you're not being sarcastic U.S oil production hit a record high in 2024 and is expected to continue increasing in 2024 and 2025.,7,2024-01-19 23:09:30
kinr5kh,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"> , it would just martyr trump and his cause and make it look like a witch hunt that failed.

something's fucky. 

Because that's what Magaturds think anyway.",7,2024-01-19 22:52:15
kio813v,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,">In the meantime several smaller cases against him have fizzled...

Which ones?",7,2024-01-20 00:40:58
kipduvl,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"I don't think these people have been following politics long enough to be aware of who Merrick Garland is tbh.  

The idea of him being a GOP plant makes absolutely no sense. Hell, if he was then they should have confirmed him for SCOTUS, leaning the court even more in their favor, instead of stalling his career out.",7,2024-01-20 05:57:20
kiol9io,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Repubs in the senate keep trying to fefund the IRS. They were getting a head of steam during the Obama years cause he bumped up their funding.,7,2024-01-20 02:09:56
kint6ac,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,So what your saying is garland is completely disconnected from reality and shouldn't be our attorney general.,7,2024-01-19 23:04:48
kinu6tp,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Even the ideas of origin were betrayed and not followed.,7,2024-01-19 23:11:12
kipmvw7,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"It's fucking wild. What other country would let the guy who attempted a coup, just walk around free, hold rallies, get interviews on major news outlets, etc.

They treat him like he's just another normal candidate. He's literally telling us that as soon as he takes office, he's going to replace the entire DoJ, pardon himself, free his followers who attacked the Capitol, replace the entire federal government with sycophants and become a dictator. 

It feels like we're in bizarro world.",7,2024-01-20 07:36:15
kiouo2y,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Pretty fair point to say “communism bad, it doesn’t work”, not because i disagree with the philosophy of common ownership, but because power corrupts. So while the theory of collective ownership and share of the wealth of the workers sounds great.  The reality is it still gets managed by SOME system, and that is easily taken over by authoritarians.",7,2024-01-20 03:16:50
kip6gof,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Merrick Garland should have thought about that while he was doing nothing to bring Trump to justice *for almost two years after Jan 6* until he finally appointed Jack Smith.,6,2024-01-20 04:49:54
kiotx2x,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"...he didn't make this statement in a speedy fashion.

Seriously, the Justice system is just fucking broken. This man should have been arrested in 2021 for not returning the documents. The trial should have started in 2022. He should be in prison serving his years and years of sentence by now.",6,2024-01-20 03:11:17
kioxayf,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Speedy trial, speedy conviction, lengthy fucking sentence. 

Trump should die of old age in prison. Fucking seditionist rapist traitor.",6,2024-01-20 03:36:32
kinrmgb,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"“Attorney General Merrick Garland sticks finger in air, notes wind direction.”",6,2024-01-19 22:55:06
kiox3o5,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Should have picked sally Yates,6,2024-01-20 03:35:00
kioqp9w,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Yes.. he is a wet noodle for sure..!,6,2024-01-20 02:48:20
kinwiey,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Love the metaphor but no idea what it means!,6,2024-01-19 23:25:48
kio0y8h,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Not incompetent at all.  They are doing exactly what they are told.  If they aren’t protecting Trump and his wealthy backers, then what is it?",6,2024-01-19 23:54:23
kios1fn,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"The system is designed (has been altered) to keep power (the real owners of this country) out of accountability.
Prosecuting trump will set a precedent and it’s bad for them.",6,2024-01-20 02:57:48
kio8bed,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,You are asking beaurocrats to go up against their own bosses.... any surprise there?,6,2024-01-20 00:42:54
kipbe2b,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"The more I see Garland at work at the DOJ, the less upset I am that he wasn't confirmed to SCOTUS.",6,2024-01-20 05:33:54
kinsbfl,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"> At least, that's the hope.

That is not good enough for me.",6,2024-01-19 22:59:24
kipatxd,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"He was only thrown out as a SCOTUS judge because GOP senators kept name checking him as someone Obama would never nominate. Obama knew they wouldn't seat or even hold a hearing for literally anyone he nominated, so he called their bluff.",6,2024-01-20 05:28:41
kind4rb,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,...The Soviets weren't fascist.,6,2024-01-19 21:29:54
kiocouk,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Brilliant ;-) Thanks,6,2024-01-20 01:12:13
kip415s,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Republicans are not Americans, they are Republicans.",6,2024-01-20 04:29:26
kioo6u0,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,He'll be too busy being a Senator.,6,2024-01-20 02:30:28
kiom3h4,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Mitch didn't actually care who the pick was. He was mad about Reid going nuclear on nominations. It's why Obama picked a Republican in the first place.,6,2024-01-20 02:15:45
kiowkqg,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"In a way, you could argue that. If my theory is correct. That pretty much falls in line with “politics as usual” though, that’s the kind of underhanded thing that’s done regularly. Now if they were indicting him on false charges, that would be something else entirely.

Or, say, Trump trying to use the head of the USPS to sabotage mail-in-voting. Or the DNC trying to shut down any other Democratic candidate (I think in one state they closed the time limit of applying to be on the ballot early without telling the other candidates until it was too late).",6,2024-01-20 03:31:01
kipph48,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,And also rolling back the power of Congress to regulate,6,2024-01-20 08:07:01
kinrtd9,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"They check all the boxes for fascism except for their ideas of origin. If that is enough for you, so be it, but I'd say that one alone is not really a meaningful difference in all but a very specialised context.",6,2024-01-19 22:56:17
kip7ezv,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,It’s illegal for you to ask me that.,6,2024-01-20 04:58:01
kiot9nt,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"He's a coward is what he is. He did everything he could to avoid holding Trump accountable, and when he had no choice he handed his job to Jack Smith and ran.",6,2024-01-20 03:06:32
kipgp37,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"> Conservatives, when you whine about ""two justice systems"", you're right, and this is what they are.

And they have the gall to complain that all these indictments and ballot disqualifications are a political hit job.  No one has been treated with softer kid gloves and was allowed more playtime than him.",6,2024-01-20 06:26:26
kioskx9,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Even if I concede that you are correct, there is still the problem that communism can't be a very strong form of government if it's so easily and consistently taken over by people from the polar opposite of the political spectrum. Yeah, occasionally a liberal democracy falls to fascism, but it doesn't happen anywhere near as often as it does to communist governments.",6,2024-01-20 03:01:36
kioxwt0,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,After he slow walked everything for 2 whole years. Stfu dude,5,2024-01-20 03:41:08
kipawmr,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"What a fuckup Garland was for the US. Like, in general, at all times and places.",5,2024-01-20 05:29:24
kinsvfy,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,This country is beyond fucked.,5,2024-01-19 23:02:54
kinuhds,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Cowardly little boy waited YEARS to do ANYTHING about Trump. He needs to be replaced with a serious person.,5,2024-01-19 23:13:02
kinxpv5,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Which trial? :D The paper stuff? The jan 6 shit? Gotta be specific here.,5,2024-01-19 23:33:33
kio6eja,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,I think they were honestly hoping for Trump to fade away.,5,2024-01-20 00:30:09
kinfnuj,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,well there was a ton of investigation and evidence collection that happened in those 2 years.  It's one of the reasons Jack Smith has been able to move so quickly,5,2024-01-19 21:44:26
kiob5w8,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"but same time, isn't it just expensive to just let it spiral for years of investigation and nothing happening.  any reqular joe, quickly punished and needs to serve time.",5,2024-01-20 01:01:58
kiolwd8,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Far from guaranteed. I'd still say a trial is more likely than not, but it's cutting it really close.

[Here's a really good analysis](https://www.justsecurity.org/91108/how-long-will-trumps-dc-immunity-appeal-take-analyzing-the-alternative-timelines/) by three legal experts of the different timelines.

Their best prediction given everything we know about the immunity appeal is a trial beginning in July (with about 3 months variance of plausible scenarios). Which would end sometime in August or early September.

The problem once you get past that point (into September) is that you start asking the question: ""Will the DOJ and Jack Smith adhere to the unwritten 60-day rule?""",5,2024-01-20 02:14:22
kioum67,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,[removed],5,2024-01-20 03:16:27
kini9q7,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Ignoring that, Stalinism and its Soviet apparatus, was a fascist faction


Academics who fail to recognize this are failing academia",5,2024-01-19 21:59:17
kiosrj8,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,I agree he isn't a member unless he is a member. He is just someone who has no qualms with them and doesn't mind being featured at their events. Still pretty shitty in my eyes.,5,2024-01-20 03:02:55
kiom92g,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Gee Merrick, maybe standing in the corner and wetting your pants for almost two solid fucking years might have delayed things a bit. Yathink!?",4,2024-01-20 02:16:51
kiosdvn,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,This dumbshit should have assigned a special prosecutor a lot sooner than he did.,4,2024-01-20 03:00:13
kiotlz6,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Maybe you shouldn't have dragged your feet until the house forced your hand, Mick.

Shit or get off the pot.

This douche would watch the world burn if he was guaranteed a bureaucratic role overseeing the ashes.",4,2024-01-20 03:09:01
kiovxw8,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"So tired of Democrat ineptitude. You motherfuckers are all we got, do something!",4,2024-01-20 03:26:14
kio5lbq,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Merrick Garland can seriously stfu and just do it….”speedy trial” can we just get A TRIAL?,4,2024-01-20 00:24:47
kintj9o,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Thought this was the onion since this dude actively resisted opening an investigation for YEARS,4,2024-01-19 23:07:04
kio3yzb,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Merrick is complicit.,4,2024-01-20 00:14:07
kinocpx,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Fascism's Inside Man Merrick Garland hopes for a Speedy Trial for Trump in 2025, unless of course Trump wins and pardons himself as Garland hopes.",4,2024-01-19 22:35:10
kip1teg,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Thanks,4,2024-01-20 04:11:17
kip2hu9,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,Seriously fuck merrick garland,4,2024-01-20 04:16:45
kiosjqi,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"And if the trial gets close to the election, Trump and his allies will make the excuse of ""Now it's not the right time. The people should decide""",4,2024-01-20 03:01:22
kinyy7m,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Except that if he took too long, then it wouldn't matter even if he had the evidence to convict Trump. And out of those 2 scenarios, the one where he's too late to do anything about trump is the worst one by an infinite margin.

The clock is ticking, and there isn't going to be another chance.",4,2024-01-19 23:41:27
kioo4kc,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Merrick Garland would've been a fine choice for SCOTUS as a replacement to Scalia in a divided Congress. Like, sure, if Dems had the Senate, put in a liberal. But if the most Obama could've gotten was Garland, then he would've been *fine*. Likely a swing vote on the Court, far better than Gorsuch.

Garland doesn't really have a pro-left or pro-right lean. He has a pro-executive lean.",4,2024-01-20 02:30:02
kipgpq1,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,He was picked by Obama as a “gotcha”.  Obama is not stupid he can read the room.  There wasn’t a chance in hell that Merric was actually getting a vote.  Do you really think that was a surprise?  He picked Merrick to rub the hypocrisy in the GOPs face:,4,2024-01-20 06:26:36
kirehcc,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"The mental bargaining required to think that if only the compromise candidate had gotten the appointment, then we still would have been disappointed, but at least the worst political outcome imaginable might not have happened. Then on top of that thinking rewarding him with a position was somehow sticking it to the opponents. I'm not talking about you, just what seems to be Dem train of thought these days.",4,2024-01-20 17:04:17
kiph202,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,A GOP lifer.  Who gives speeches and takes checks from the Federalist society.  He’s like Jim Comey.  Heavily controlled by pro Republican inherent bias.  He probably doesn’t even realize it himself.  He can’t picture the core of the Republican Party as traitors so in effect they get a pass.  And another bite at the Apple.,4,2024-01-20 06:30:15
kiongt7,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Hyperbole for sure, and it fails to recognize the magnitude of the FedSoc’s influence on our judiciary. From the very top of the Federalist Society’s wiki page…

“Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it has chapters at more than 200 law schools and features student, lawyer, and faculty divisions; the lawyers division comprises more than 70,000 practicing attorneys in ninety cities.[1] Through speaking events, lectures, and other activities, it provides a forum for legal experts of opposing views to interact with members of the legal profession, the judiciary, and the legal academy.[7] It is one of the most influential legal organizations in the United States.[8][9]”

Whether we like it or not, the Federalist Society’s presence in our judicial system is pervasive and their legitimacy far exceeds that of the KKK. To treat them like some evil cabal that is conspiring in the back rooms of the Supreme Court Building is foolish, short sighted, and deluded.

Edit: I should clarify that I certainly think that the Federalist Society is in many ways evil.",4,2024-01-20 02:25:20
kipr7mw,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"The government dragged their feet on 1/6 and gave the right wing media plenty of time to spin their story and control the narrative for their base. Now half the country thinks it was just some peaceful protest fighting for freedom, despite the fact someone literally fucking died and we have pictures of congressmen on both sides cowering under their desks. It feels all like a big joke.",4,2024-01-20 08:28:26
kiow12n,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"It won't be, though, IMO. She's polling behind a Republican baseball player.",4,2024-01-20 03:26:55
kio2myp,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,I’m looking forward to the Supreme Court ruling the president is immune from upholding the constitution and the dark brandon can assume his final form,3,2024-01-20 00:05:20
kioh6ep,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"Too late, Merrick.  There will be can-kicking until the election,  and if tRump wins....",3,2024-01-20 01:42:16
kiouk7t,19at8br,Attorney General Merrick Garland says there should be ‘speedy trial’ of Trump as 2024 election looms,"It’s quite obvious the system has completely failed and Trump will become President again if he isn’t convicted in next few months. What is the point of a judicial system if the president is above it and Supreme Court judges can openly take bribes and face no consequence? 

Trump is just a symptom of this rotten system.",3,2024-01-20 03:16:03