Please watch this 12 minute video by Glenn Kirschner.

The US is moving towards justice.

Though many are misreading current events.
Merrick Garland is not covering up Bill Barr’s behaviour as attorney general. It’s far more likely that the evidence will be used during investigation of Barr’s dealings while USAG.
It’s also considerably more likely that Garland is fighting the judges orders to preserve the Department of Justice’s ability to use their own discretion about revealing sensitive information.
The DOJ is preserving institutional power that the judge’s decision would create precedent to undermine in the future if the DOJ complies.

Remember current decisions influence the future, not the past.

Wipe out a legal precedent and that convention is lost.
There are legitimate reasons for DOJ to resist judicial authority to decide to release internal documentation that was never supposed to be made public. It would reveal how cases and evidence is considered. For the entire world to see. Not just the US public.
A similar court proceeding exists here in Canada. And similar accusations of malfeasance are aimed at the current government.

What most don’t understand about the legal system is that past decision influence current options.
Change a decision now and all future decisions are affected. So you better make sure that you’re prepared to live with the impact of the new precedent before deciding whether to fight the decision.
Even if a decision is supported by the department or government in theory, the method the decision is made (by a judiciary) may require legal pushback when they impede on established government powers. Because there are no exceptions. A precedent defines all future decisions.
In Canada, that means the LPC federal government, who agrees that FN children and families abused by First Nations Child Welfare policies deserve compensation for their suffering.
What they are fighting in court is the setting of precedent by a quasi judicial authority (the Canadian Human Rights Commission) to decide and determine the abuses, timeframe, recipients and nature of the compensation.
Because it would set precedent for all future Human Rights rulings. Bestowing powers on the CHRC and removing that power from the executive and legislative branches of government.

To criticize legal procedures, you must understand the basics in legal matters.
By no means do I understand or know all Canadian or US legal code and conduct. But I know enough lawyers who have discussed setting legal precedent in my presence. And I can read legal opinions.
The US Department of Justice is no different than Canadian government situation in principle. English Common Law is used in both nations and the establishment of legal precedent is a foundational tenet of English Common Law.
As for Trump and an imminent indictment. The fact all the ducks are lining up in a row is encouraging. But it also means the Orange one and his accomplices are getting ever more desperate and unpredictable.

I have no idea how imminent an indictment is. Neither do the experts.
Patience is a virtue that we will all do well to familiarize ourselves with again. We don’t really have any other option.

But it does explain the rise in squirrelly GOP behaviour and the refusal to investigate Jan 6/21 events.

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This WILL result in a fourth wave and exponentially more deaths and long covid.

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These beliefs are bizarre and not based in reality.

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That’s about 5.6 million radically deluded Canadians.

And that’s why Q’Anon is no joke.

Imagine if even 1-2% of that population act on their anger.
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Are the armed forces willing and able to counter any domestic terrorist violence of this magnitude?

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