Posted on 02/22/2021 3:24:48 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Judge Merrick Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee Antifa’s attacks on the U.S. courthouse in Portland may not have been “domestic terrorism,” because they took place at night when the court was not “in operation.”
Sen. Josh Hawley questioned Garland :
Let me ask you about assaults on federal property in places other than Washington, DC — Portland, for instance, Seattle. Do you regard assaults on federal courthouses or other federal property as acts of domestic terrorism?
Garland: My own definition, which is about the same as the statutory definition, is the use of violence or threats of violence in attempt to disrupt the democratic processes. So an attack on a courthouse, while in operation, trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases, that plainly is domestic terrorism. An attack simply on a government property at night is a clear crime and a serious one, and should be punished. I don’t know enough about the facts of the example you’re talking about. But that’s where I draw the line. One is — both are criminal, but one is a core attack on our democratic institutions.
Garland cited the domestic terrorism statute, which defines “domestic terrorism” as follows (18 USC § 2331):
(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that— (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended— (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States
Notably, the statute does not confine acts of domestic terrorism to working hours.
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We should be thanking Mitch McConnell for keeping this guy off the Supreme Court. He’s no “moderate.” He’s a typical leftie judge who would have fit right in with the SCOTUS libs.
a LISP program is more intelligent than this
wacko who apparently belongs with the child eating,
rape-protecting, election stealing conspiring
monsters in POTUS (excluding the Honorable Justice Thomas).
Luckily the turd was never appointed to the SC.
Terrorism is such an iffy term right? 🐂💩
WTF? USG definition of terrorism.
The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives” (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85).
This is head of a US circuit court of appeals that deals in terrorism cases that does not understand this definition and deliberates the laws? And they want him to be making judgements on who gets prosecuted under those laws? It is a good thing that this entitled wisenheimer was not placed on SCOTUS.
Inconceivable. Shocked, shocked, I say. /sarc
So he could have been on the supreme court then.
We waited for justice from Sessions, Barr and Durham for four long painful years, holding back. We were betrayed.
Now the the new AG and the enemies of freedom will label us all domestic terrorists and destroy us if they can. Working quickly and decisively with the full House,Senate,President and judges on their side. Fast, efficient work against us.
This is like after the Oklahoma City bombing, where the Janet Reno types inhibited all of us into total meek silence to avoid being called bomber-apologists or something.
Should be repeated daily. Thank you.
There is no way a “centrist” would be nominated to the Supreme Court by a Marxist President (Obama). The left uses “labels” to disguise their true nature and beliefs. He’s just another activist seeking authority to commit unconstitutional acts with impunity.
He couldn’t be any worse than Barr.
My own definition, which is about the same as the statutory definition, is the use of violence or threats of violence in attempt to disrupt the democratic processes. So an attack on a courthouse, while in operation, trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases, that plainly is domestic terrorism.So forget the working hours stuff. What Garland is really saying is that he's agreed to perpetuate the insurrection garbage in return for becoming Attorney General of the United States. That should be the basis for the Republicans to pound him and, by extension, the entire RAT party, in further questioning.
I wonder how he’d feel about a group of militia members occupying an empty wildlife refuge out in the middle of nowhere in Oregon in the middle of January.
Garland is a weasel With a vendetta. IMHO
Reward your friends, punish your enemies
Don’t ever say anything like that, they take it as a challenge.
All democrats are the enemy, folks.
My own definition, which is about the same as the statutory definition, is the use of violence or threats of violence in attempt to disrupt the democratic processes.
It doesn't matter what he thinks the laws says.
And this was the man in line for SCOTUS!?
The comedy writes itself with this bunch.
He discriminates against poor janitors on the night shift.
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