No Democratic member of the House or Senate is saying it publicly yet, but more and more are saying it privately: “Joe Biden made a big mistake in appointing Merrick Garland attorney general. He should have gone for Doug Jones. Garland’s too timid.”
Frustration with Garland has been building for some time among congressional Democrats over his failure to pursue criminal charges against former President Trump. By itself, they believe, Trump’s call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, urging him to “just find 11,780 votes,” is sufficient evidence of a federal crime to merit appointment of a special prosecutor. “I think a criminal investigation here is absolutely warranted,” former U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal told MSNBC.
The problem, one former top White House official told me, is that Garland has a bad case of “Obama syndrome.” Meaning two things. One, he thinks his job is to look forward, not backward. Which, on the face of it, is absurd. All criminal prosecution deals with crimes committed in the past, not in the future. Two, Garland’s afraid of appearing to use his power to punish his political opponents. Which is equally absurd. Republicans have no blank check to break the law just because a Democrat happens to be attorney general.
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What is taking AG Garland so long? What do you think?