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Alabama Republicans refuse to create second majority-Black district
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Garland is spineless, the Right Wing's current talking points are constantly about the weaponization of the DoJ, but that's just for two reasons, making the Biden admin look like they're "the big gubment coming to get conservatives" and normalizing what Trump and DeSantis and too many other Republican candidates want to actually do once they get control of the country back. Once that happens you will see useless hearings like the Hillary Benghazi hearings or worse, much worse.
Garland should fucking be removed from the GOP if he refuses to do his fucking job. He never should have been appointed. He is a Republican that will allow them to do whatever they want.
Firstly the GOP stands for "Grand old party" aka the Republicans of the American Right wing. I believe you mean the DoJ, the Department of Justice.
Secondly he is not a Republican, he has worked with every democratic administration since Clinton's, I cannot find his political affiliation but he's well known as a Centrist.
With that being said, Centrist and conservative Germans enabled Hitler's rise, so him being a centrist obviously doesn't mean he's not on the Republicans side, I'm just stating that he works almost exclusively with Democratic administrations and attempts to bring the aisle and work with both parties. However working what he seems to fail to realize is that working with the current Republican party means that he isn't working with other centrists anymore, since they are mostly extremists now.
I wish that Merrick Garland was my uncle or something so that I could call him up and ask him off the record how he thinks about all of this stuff.
He clearly wants to avoid looking political and as such rarely shares any comments on all of this fuckery. The problem, which all of us here I think are fairly clear on, his lack of calling out this bullshit is not only dangerous, but does a disservice to justice.
I would love to be able to hear his off-the-record reasoning as to why he isn't speaking up, and be able to challenge him in real time. Due to the political landscape, this could never be public as it would immediately be weaponized, as we can all probably predict.
Still, it sucks. The inaction is just as bad as taking a stance that isn't popular with the fascist party we call Republicans.
He isn't a part of the GOP, but he might as well be a moderate one that disagrees with Trump and his foam-at-the-mouth idiot sheep sycophants, not unlike someone like Romney or Cheney (although she voted with Trump 90% or more of the time IIRC). The effect of silence is almost the same as a plant that looks the other way.
Our political system pisses me the fuck off. It's depressing watching this happen in real time.
I absolutely agree, it's been like watching a slow motion train wreck, except for the fact that we're all passengers on that train.
Yes memt DOJ and I heard he is a Republican.
did you check under "spineless bitch"?
Garland is not in the GOP?