Terry, I am completely unimpressed with Merrick Garland as AG. I believe he is an excellent attorney and an honorable man but not the AG for todays US. Our institutional republic is under its greatest threat and Garland has not commenced prosecution of Trump or his band of violent seditionists. A DA in GA has impaneled a grand jury that is considering charges against Trump. Garland could join the case. What is public knowledge is enough to indict Trump for multiple felonies and as a Fed judge in CA opined there is sufficient evidence to suggest Trump committed a felony. What is Garlands response? Crickets. Time is an important element and Garland has been in office for a year and a half. Garland should resign and let Biden appoint a competent prosecutor such as Eric Holder. Unless you prefer to live in a theocratic dictatorship n
You were doing great until the last sentence. Garland is not the last hope of the Republic. There are a few indicted candidates surviving GOP primaries right now. The last hope is actually voters who come out in force as if their life depended on it. I said so in 2016, and was poohpoohed. Voters only started getting serious in 2018 and even greater turnout in 2020. Yet there hasn't been the sort of turnout to repudiate MAGA once and for all. So for the fourth time, I am working hard on seeing record levels of turnout for the midterms, especially that half of registered voters who never vote or voting-age adults who have never registered to vote.
You are correct: lack of voter turnout is perhaps the single most biggest problem complicated by voter ignorance and inability to distinguish between news and fabulous propaganda. Lack of voter turnout is a long standing disgrace. Refusal to creat a Federal holiday on Election Day is a thinly disguised ruse to suppress the vote. I can think of some measures that might ameliorate this existential problem but will not include them now - they are quite obvious and my guess apparent to most sentient citizens. Still, Garlands failure to act is a serious problem. He would have been an excellent SCOTUS Justice, but he is far too timid as a prosecutor in not prosecuting powerful, wealthy, former, and present, office holders committing the crime of sedition - often as conspirators.
We still do not know that he has failed to act. The J6 committee got underway well before DOJ was ready to indict. After the public hearings, he should either indict or appoint a special prosecutor. A special prosecutor might be best in order to help depoliticize an indictment of a former president and help defuse the firestorm such an indictment is sure to ignite.
The Senate unanimously passed the bill designating Juneteenth a Federal holiday. I think they should have made election day a federal holiday instead. Meanwhile, HR 222 is still sitting in committee. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/222/text
That is a very unfair supposition and unworthy of the quality of discourse this forum aspires to.
Terry, I am completely unimpressed with Merrick Garland as AG. I believe he is an excellent attorney and an honorable man but not the AG for todays US. Our institutional republic is under its greatest threat and Garland has not commenced prosecution of Trump or his band of violent seditionists. A DA in GA has impaneled a grand jury that is considering charges against Trump. Garland could join the case. What is public knowledge is enough to indict Trump for multiple felonies and as a Fed judge in CA opined there is sufficient evidence to suggest Trump committed a felony. What is Garlands response? Crickets. Time is an important element and Garland has been in office for a year and a half. Garland should resign and let Biden appoint a competent prosecutor such as Eric Holder. Unless you prefer to live in a theocratic dictatorship n
You were doing great until the last sentence. Garland is not the last hope of the Republic. There are a few indicted candidates surviving GOP primaries right now. The last hope is actually voters who come out in force as if their life depended on it. I said so in 2016, and was poohpoohed. Voters only started getting serious in 2018 and even greater turnout in 2020. Yet there hasn't been the sort of turnout to repudiate MAGA once and for all. So for the fourth time, I am working hard on seeing record levels of turnout for the midterms, especially that half of registered voters who never vote or voting-age adults who have never registered to vote.
You are correct: lack of voter turnout is perhaps the single most biggest problem complicated by voter ignorance and inability to distinguish between news and fabulous propaganda. Lack of voter turnout is a long standing disgrace. Refusal to creat a Federal holiday on Election Day is a thinly disguised ruse to suppress the vote. I can think of some measures that might ameliorate this existential problem but will not include them now - they are quite obvious and my guess apparent to most sentient citizens. Still, Garlands failure to act is a serious problem. He would have been an excellent SCOTUS Justice, but he is far too timid as a prosecutor in not prosecuting powerful, wealthy, former, and present, office holders committing the crime of sedition - often as conspirators.
We still do not know that he has failed to act. The J6 committee got underway well before DOJ was ready to indict. After the public hearings, he should either indict or appoint a special prosecutor. A special prosecutor might be best in order to help depoliticize an indictment of a former president and help defuse the firestorm such an indictment is sure to ignite.
The Senate unanimously passed the bill designating Juneteenth a Federal holiday. I think they should have made election day a federal holiday instead. Meanwhile, HR 222 is still sitting in committee. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/222/text