These people defending Garland's inaction are like the LemonLyman club who would defend Josh Lyman's *secret plan* to fight inflation.
If Garland had empaneled a Grand Jury, we'd know it, just like we know when Cy Vance does.
If Garland or the FBI had interviewed key Congressional conspirators, we'd know it, because these people love complaining to Fox every time something bad happens to them.
If Garland were serious about holding everybody accountable for trying to overthrow the government, we wouldn't have ACTUALLY JUDGES complaining that the sentence recommendations FROM THE DOJ'S PROSECUTORS are too light.
In short, the distance between the people who say "Garland has a secret plan to prosecute Trump for insurrection" and the people who say "Trump be reinstated as president with JFK Jr as his running mate" is not as wide as both groups would have you believe.
Whatever, eventually Garland *will* charge Bannon with contempt and all these people will say "SEE!!" while ignoring the weeks long lag, how he emboldened people like Flynn to ignore subpoenas, and the fact that after the *charge* it'll be like a year before the *trial*.
Then it'll go to appeal, the Dems will lose the House. Republicans will end the Select Committee, and *THEN* these people will say "don't worry" and tell us to wait for Garland to bring criminal charges against the conspirators.
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ONE black juror in the trial of the killers of Ahmaud Arbery, the judge literally says he sees INTENTIONAL discrimination in the selection process... but he lets the trial go forward ANYWAY.
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26 percent of the county is Black... ONE Black juror.
I do not know any black people who are saying the GOP appeals to racism were ineffective. The question is what Dems should DO about that SELF-EVIDENT REALITY.
MY suggestion is "fight racism" as opposed to the centrist Dem strat of "don't talk about it and hope it goes away."
But I'm open to other suggestions, like "PASS LEGISLATION" or "SEND NON COLLEGE WHITES TO COLLGE FOR FREE" or even "JUST GIVE PEOPLE ENOUGH MONEY TO STOP CARING WHERE TRANS PEOPLE PEE"
But "Try to be more racist" seems like something we've tried that doesn't work.
That's for real a poll I want to see:
"You listed CRT as your top concern. How much cash money do you need to not care?" Tell me the PRICE POINT 10% of these assholes sell out for, and let's start CUTTING SOME GODDAMN CHECKS.
Roberts asking whether there is any place where guns can be restricted? Like places where they serve alcohol.
Clement is saying it's a case by case basis: says school and government buildings.... in bars "the government would have a tough case."
Kagan asks if you can restrict arms on the subway.
Clement can't say. "On behalf of my individual clients, I guess I could give away the subway, because they don't live in Manhattan."
THANKS, PAUL. HOW FUCKING MAGNANIMOUS
Now Barrett is jumping in. Clement is having real trouble here, b/c these justices are basically asking Clement if there's ANY END to his gun logic, and since there's not he can't really answer.
There was a problem at my polling place, the machine for my ED went down. And it created a backlog and a bit of a line.
Person in front of me and my mother gave up and walked out.
I felt bad... he made it all the way to the polling place but still didn't vote.
Like, not *too* bad because he was a white guy who rolled up in a Range Rover so, you know, not who I'm targeting with my mailer.
BUT STILL... it just drove the point home about how important *frictionless* voting is. Even *minor* hurdles can put some people off.
It also brings to mind that even with the best of intentions, things can break or go wrong. There can be delays.
Now imagine how much worse it is when people *don't* have the best of intentions. When they're actually trying to make people give up and walk away.
I do think that one upshot of live audio oral arguments is that normal people (like my mom just sitting her listening to these arguments) can see JUST HOW MUCH male justices interrupt women lawyers AND the other women justices.
The differences between how hostile they are to women talking than they are to men, even men they *disagree* with... should be eye opening for people who aren't used to their bullcrap.
Like my mom is just like "WHY DON'T THEY LET HER TALK??" "They let the other guy talk."
Yeah.
Like justices interrupting lawyers is a thing, but it's worse when the lawyer is a woman and OBVIOUSLY SO.