Speech Or Silence: Merrick Garland Says You Can't Criticize The Department Of Justice
Nothing To See Here, Just "Conspiracy Theories"
Merrick Garland is triggered. In an addresss to staff at the Department of Justice, the Attorney General lashed out at the multitude of scathing criticisms and denunciations directed at the DoJ over its lawfare persecutions of Donald Trump and others.
I have also seen how you have bravely carried on in the face of an unprecedented spike in threats targeting a range of public officials across the country. Over the past three and a half years there has been an escalation of attacks on the Justice Department's career lawyers, agents and other Personnel that go far beyond scrutiny, criticism, and legitimate and necessary oversight of our work. These attacks have come in the form of conspiracy theories, dangerous falsehoods, efforts to bully and intimidate career public servants by repeatedly and publicly singling them out, and threats of actual violence. Through your work you have made clear that the justice department will not be intimidated by these attacks, but it is dangerous and outrageous that you have to endure them. It is dangerous to target and intimidate individual employees of this department solely for doing their jobs, and it is outrageous that you have to face these unfounded attacks because you are doing what is right and upholding the rule of law.
That’s right—there has been no lawfare, no abuse of process, no abuse of civil rights, and civil liberties. Just fine upstanding civil servants doing their jobs and “upholding the rule of law.”
It was just “the rule of law” to circumvent the Constitutional order and illegally appoint Special Counsel for the express purpose of targeting and harassing a political adversary to the (Biden-)Harris Administration.
It was just “the rule of law” when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan colluded to contort and even rewrite New York law to bring a ludicrous and laughable set of “fraud” charges against Donald Trump for going along with Stormy Daniels’ blackmail scheme.
It was just “the rule of law” when Department of Justice officials joined Alvin Bragg’s office just to “assist” in this political persecution prosecution.
It was just “the rule of law” to indict Donald Trump under the Espionage Act, while refusing to indict Joe Biden for doing the exact same thing.
It was just “the rule of law” when Jack Smith, having secured one set of indictments against Donald Trump, continued to empanel grand juries to secure as many more indictments as he could possibly concoct.
It was just “the rule of law” when Donald Trump was indicted for the crime of challenging the “official” narrative that there was no fraud in the 2020 election.
It was just “the rule of law” when Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, along with her lover Nathan Wade—with ample assistance from the White House and the Department of Justice—constructed a RICO case against Donald Trump for daring to challenge Georgia’s certification of the 2020 election results.
It was just “the rule of law” when Colorado and Maine sought to illegally deprive Donald Trump of his rights of due process under the Constitution by arbitrarily declaring him an “insurrectionist”.
It was just “rule of law” when the (Biden-)Harris Administration targeted dissident politician and former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard for Stasi-like surveillance as retaliation for her having criticized the Administration openly and repeatedly.
Merrick Garland can get triggered all he wants, but the reality remains that the (Biden-)Harris Administration has repeatedly weaponized the Department of Justice against Donald Trump specifically. As the House Judiciary Committee’s report documents, there is ample evidence of DoJ involvement even in Alvin Bragg’s state prosecution of Donald Trump—a line between levels of government that should never get crossed.
Prosecutors across the country have flouted and disregarded “the rule of law” for the sole purpose of harassing and intimidating Donald Trump.
Judges across the country have disregarded the plain language of the Constitution to illegally and arbitrarily declare Trump an “insurrectionist” and bar him from running for President—unconstitional “bills of attainder” which neither the federal government nor the states may ever enact against anyone.
All of this is amply documented. In the articles I have linked above I have sourced and provided that documentation—the statutes, relevant court cases, the text of the Constitution, and the statements of prosecutors and judges alike.
None of this is a “conspiracy theory”. As regards lawfare against Donald Trump, the evidence is overwhelming, enough so that it must be considered a “conspiracy fact”.
Kamala Harris may think she’s making a telling criticism of Donald Trump that he’s been indicted and convicted in a kangaroo show trial that even by her amateurish understanding of the legal system would be an embarrassing charade. In reality she’s making a telling self-criticism, that she and other Democrats see nothing wrong in making up “crimes” out of previously legal and lawful behavior just for the sole purpose of attacking a specific political adversary.
Merrick Garland may be triggered that the Department of Justice is being singled out for criticism after he’s allowed it to be used in nakedly political persecutions prosecutions of Donald Trump. In reality there has not been nearly enough criticism of either Merrick Garland or the Department of Justice for their unmistakably conspiratorial efforts to deny Donald Trump his fundamental civil liberties and eviscerating any notion of due process.
There is enough Free Speech left in this country that Merrick Garland can still feel some public opinion heat for his heavy-handed authoritarian approach to running the Department of Justice. There is enough Free Speech left in this country to annoy and even intimidate Merrick Garland—having thrown his lot in with an increasingly fascistic and authoritarian (Biden-)Harris Administration, he now may find himself having to answer for why he set aside his Constitutional oath of office and set aside the Constitution itself solely for the purpose of targeting the Administration’s political enemies.
Merrick Garland is wrong to complain about the criticisms the Department of Justice has endured. There is not nearly enough criticisms about the weaponized Department of Justice he has created, which he does not see as answerable to anyone, oversight be damned.
Merrick Garland, for three-and-a-half years, has weaponized the DoJ and helped empower prosecutors across the country to go after the political opponents of the (Biden-)Harris Administration. Now he’s upset that he’s getting some “criticism” of his blatantly unconstitutional management of the DoJ.
Merrick Garland should thank his lucky stars he will be able to get out of Washington, DC, before Donald Trump gets inaugurated next January. Merrick Garland has conspired to deprive Donald Trump of his fundamental Constitutional rights and civil liberties—and that happens to be an actual crime under federal law.
When Donald Trump wins in November—and I pray most fervently that he does win—Merrick Garland should be among the first to be investigated, indicted, and ultimately incarcerated for his corrupt and shameless mismanagement of the Justice Department.
Until the election, do not let anyone forget that, in the many iterations of The United States v Donald Trump, it is the government that is the actual defendant. It is the government that is has broken the law. It is the government that is criminal.
The Department of Justice does not stand any more for “the rule of law”. Merrick Garland has imposed instead “the rule of lawyers”. It is not an improvement.
Thank goodness Garland isn’t on SCOTUS. He’s a menace.
Really? I thought the government was prohibited from infringing citizens’ free speech. Good thing he never made it to SCOTUS, since he appears unfamiliar with the Constitution.