American Bar Praises Merrick Garland

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Merrick Garland

Los Angeles Times

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US Politics

Calmes: Merrick Garland's integrity saved the DOJ only to doom it again

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Ruben Navarrette : Merrick Garland's nomination for Supreme Court turned out to be ineffectual.

He says he could have been a truly supreme justice , but for McConnell 's unprecedented GOP blockade.

He writes that Garland initially shied from investigating and prosecuting Trump for his role in postelection subversions culminating on Jan. 6, 2021 .

He notes that the traits that the American Bar Assn . saw as Garland ’s strengths — deliberative caution, modesty, judicial temperament, indifference to politics — turned out be weaknesses for the head of the Justice Department in these times.

As fast as Smith seemed to work, it wasn’t until August 2023 — two and a half years after the insurrection — that Trump was criminally indicted.

Months of legal challenges from the Trump team followed, delaying everything.

Yet to point fingers solely at Garland for letting Trump off the hook shifts blame from those even more deserving of it.

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