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In reply to the discussion: Let's be clear. Tribe and Weissman are full of shit about the Trump investigations [View all]Fiendish Thingy
(15,693 posts)94. The OP never mentioned anything about "The Democratic Party's DOJ"
From your original post (false statements in bold)allegedly quoting the OP and Biden:
"...and then complaining because your own party's DOJ didn't do the exact same?"
The Democratic party doesn't have a DOJ.
The Democratic party doesn't have a DOJ.
Actual quote form the OP:
and then complaining because your own party's president's DOJ didn't do the exact same?
Big difference including one the additional possessive noun. Just as every department in the Executive Branch is Bidens, so is the DOJ, even if Biden is taking the traditional hands off, no meddling or micro managing approach.
So, it was you who responded with a false premise.
As President Biden has said multiple times, and has proven even more times, the DOJ under this Democratic administration is run independently from the Executive branch and under the sole administration of Federalist Society connected Merrick garland.
Biden never said those words in bold- he did assert that DOJ would operate independently from the White House, which is part of, but not the same as, the entire executive branch. DOJ cannot be removed from the Executive Branch.
Biden also never referred to Garland as being associated with the Federalist society. Garlands association was limited to participating in some legal discussion panels sponsored by the society, whose participants also included the former chair of the Democratic Party of Illinois, former Deputy AG under Bill Clinton, one of Bidens current undersecretaries of Homeland Security, and of course, many conservative legal figures.
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/merrick-garland
From that page:
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and another myth bites the dust.
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Let's be clear. Tribe and Weissman are full of shit about the Trump investigations [View all]
bigtree
Mar 22
OP
If we cannot exist within a shared reality, how can we hope to defeat fascism?
Fiendish Thingy
Mar 23
#96
There's not politicizing the DoJ, and then there's being so afraid of the appearance of being political...
Silent3
Mar 22
#7
You keep on using the term "exoneration," yet Hur specifically testified he did not exonerate Biden.
sop
Mar 23
#88
Posting on the earlier article I said the cheer leaders would be staying up
republianmushroom
Mar 22
#13
You are exactly right. Garland has been a poor AG. The OP poster keeps posting the same crap...
brush
Mar 22
#39
I have no idea. Wouldn't surprise me because of the over-the-top defensiveness.
Goodheart
Mar 22
#44
If you think his job was to win the election, you're making the same mistake Trump made about his DOJ
bigtree
Mar 22
#46
Win the election? No. His job was to prosecute the orange toad and his cabal who lead...
brush
Mar 22
#49
As bad as the NYT article is, it still destroys nearly all of the myths about Garland
Fiendish Thingy
Mar 22
#38
3 year plus is not impatience. Blind to reality is unfortunate though. He's been a poor AG.
brush
Mar 23
#54
Perfect example of a straw man: "Garland did nothing to investigate Trump until Smith was appointed"
Silent3
Mar 23
#71
it was really galling to hear the committee members like Schiff to complain about delays
bigtree
Mar 23
#93
Anonymous internet poster says renowned Constitutional scholar Lawrence Tribe is full of shit. All righty then.
jalan48
Mar 23
#69
I 100% agree. And in the case of Apollo 13, rushing rocket science is exactly what they had to do
lostnfound
Mar 23
#122
Actually, if you look at the number of recs divided by the number of views, the quotient is remarkably low.
Earth-shine
Mar 23
#103
I assume that "number of views" represents people on "both sides" of this argument.
Earth-shine
Mar 23
#106