http://dagblog.com/link/merrick-garland-ditches-insurrectionist-mo-brooks-34496 Comments for "Merrick Garland Ditches Insurrectionist Mo Brooks" en http://dagblog.com/comment/308541#comment-308541 <a id="comment-308541"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/merrick-garland-ditches-insurrectionist-mo-brooks-34496">Merrick Garland Ditches Insurrectionist Mo Brooks</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>FBI hearts Hillary?</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">For YEARS, Trump has been saying that the FBI tried to take him out. Now, 5 years later, we learn that SO MANY FBIers were trying to take Hillary out that DOJ IG can't figure out who broke the law.</p> — emptywheel (@emptywheel) <a href="https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1423287312356577286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Thu, 05 Aug 2021 14:17:13 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 308541 at http://dagblog.com http://dagblog.com/comment/308483#comment-308483 <a id="comment-308483"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/merrick-garland-ditches-insurrectionist-mo-brooks-34496">Merrick Garland Ditches Insurrectionist Mo Brooks</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Talk amongst yourselves.</p> <p>I'm verklempt.  Garland grew some stones,  stiffed a Republican.</p> <p>America's leading Constitutional scholar, Lawrence Tribe wrote on <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/26/merrick-garland-dont-politicize-prosecutions/">this</a>:</p> <p>"If the attorney general decides to treat such action (inciting a mob to insurrection)  as merely one way of discharging official duties, then self-government will become a mirage, and those who are guilty of trashing it will have been placed beyond the reach of legal accountability to those they injure.” </p> </div></div></div> Wed, 28 Jul 2021 02:28:33 +0000 NCD comment 308483 at http://dagblog.com