September 16, 2024

Another Sanctimonious Screed From Garland

The most partisan attorney general in our nation’s history can’t seem to understand why folks are picking on him.

He’s repeatedly decried the unrealized threats of violence directed toward his 115,000-employee Department of Justice, but the cat seems to have his tongue when it comes to the very real and deadly violence that’s been directed toward Donald Trump in recent weeks by unhinged leftists and, ahem, “registered Republicans.”

It might be that Attorney General Merrick Garland felt that his beaten-down troops needed bucking up, needed some emotional support in their ongoing efforts to mete out two-tiered justice against concerned parents, peaceful pro-lifers, “radical-traditionalist Catholics,” and assorted other dangerous conservatives. Or maybe he felt that the sting of a similar harangue he issued three months ago had begun to wear off, and a bit of election interference was called for.

In any case, the Biden-Harris administration’s attorney general, the bitterest non-justice in Supreme Court history, was at it again on Thursday, whining about the unkind treatment that’s been leveled at his Department of “Justice” in recent months and vowing that his massive, all-powerful, and highly politicized organization would remain free from partisanship, free from the accusations of two-tiered justice that have rightly plagued him.

“Our norms,” Garland said, “are a promise that we will not allow this department to be used as a political weapon. And our norms are a promise that we will not allow this nation to become a country where law enforcement is treated as an apparatus of politics.”

Garland also railed against the “conspiracy theories, dangerous falsehoods, [and] efforts to bully and intimidate career public servants.”

Spare us, Merrick. Woe is his poor, poor, pitiful little DOJ colossus, with all the criticism being heaped upon it from those nasty Trumpers. The members of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board are no Trump fans, but they know a fraud when they see one. And Merrick Garland is a fraud. As the editorial board rightly suggests, “Mr. Garland can lecture about ‘norms’ all he wants, but he is the man who under political pressure broke a norm that had lasted for more than 200 years.”

Writing for the defense, The New York Times’s Jesse Wegman laughably claims that “no previous attorney general has been faced with a presidential nominee who has openly promised to politicize the Justice Department if elected (and who took clear steps in that direction when he was last in office).” Wegman, of course, fails to name any of those “clear steps,” but as conservative thinker Dennis Prager is fond of noting: “Truth is not a left-wing value. It is a liberal value, and it is a conservative value, but truth has never been a left-wing value. From Lenin to today’s left, lying, especially about opponents, is morally acceptable as long as it serves the left’s goals of defeating opponents and attaining more power.”

Wegman wasn’t done, though: “By delaying any investigation or prosecution of Trump until almost two years after he became attorney general,” he writes, “Garland hamstrung Jack Smith, the dogged and beleaguered special counsel, leaving little time for the predictable unpredictabilities of two high-stakes prosecutions. Both were as solid as federal cases get, and now neither has any chance of being completed before the election, leaving voters without clear legal conclusions about Trump’s responsibility for the Jan. 6 riot and the highly classified documents he took from the White House.”

Clearly, Wegman isn’t reading from the same script we are. Trump invited his supporters to walk to the Capitol where they might “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard. And if the J6 case and the classified documents case against Trump are “as solid as federal cases get,” then what are we to make of the classified documents case against Joe Biden, who was not yet president when he pilfered those documents?

Furthermore, the reason Garland delayed his multi-pronged lawfare campaign against Trump — to include the curious case of Matthew Colangelo, a former Acting Associate Attorney General in Garland’s Justice Department, who left his DC job to help coordinate Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s bogus prosecution of Trump — is because the Democrats didn’t believe Trump would ever run for president again, and they didn’t believe that tens of millions of Americans would want him to do so.

As the Journal concludes, “Mr. Garland’s legacy will be that he unleashed the whirlwind by prosecuting a former President. He could at least spare the country his righteous indignation.”

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