Merrick Mthrfxn Garland's opening statement. A reading original documents with Dirk and #DemsDoGood thread. Let's goddamn go. Opening comments for the 2 22 2021 hearing. A THREAD.
Merrick lays it out: he serves no president or anyone else. He serves justice; the people of the United States and, he serves with the people of the Department of Justice. 
He is not going to roll over the executive. He will serve his oath to the rule of law.
He learned the lessons of Watergate. Law Enforcement must be independent; the White House has to stand back; the FBI has to follow the law and the DOJ has to follow the Justice Manual. All of this is here cnn.com/2021/02/20/pol…
Pretty much everything the DOJ does or does not do is covered by the Justice Manual. If you are ever wondering why - for example - what Comey did is wrong - check out the "dealing with the press" parts of the manual justice.gov/jm/justice-man…
Boom. Garland says that the DOJ was FOUNDED to deal with white supremacy. (13 no slavery; 14 states subject to consitution; 15 no discrimination on race or previous slavery). #DemsDoGood
The Civil Rights Act is so important that it is the only law specifically mentioned by Garland.
Let's tie civil rights to prosecuting felons, shall we? Because these white nationalist seditionist forces have been getting away with stuff for far too long.
The guy who prosecuted the Oklahoma City bomber is ready, willing and able to bring the heat to "white supremacists and others" who stormed the capitol.
He strives to the ideal of THE GUY THAT WENT TO NUREMBURG to prosecute the nazis. Cuz prosecuting Nazis is about to be his new job. Here citing to Justice/AG Robert H Jackson.
And for those following carefully along, there's another guy that cited Jackson. The guy that oversaw the first prosecutions of Stone, Manafort and Flynn. The guy the evils have tried to get everyone to hate.
https://twitter.com/DirkSchwenk/status/1123066001837445120?s=20
I CAN'T WAIT till M Garland is in office. With Senate confirmation, he is the absolute right person to make the calls on the prosecution of the seditionists. ALL OF THEM. Dirk out.
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