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Biden AG pick says Antifa attacks on federal courthouse may not be domestic terrorism because they happened at night
Post Millennial ^ | Feb 22 | Libby Emmons

Posted on 02/22/2021 6:11:39 PM PST by RandFan

Merrick Garland took questions in the Senate today in support of his nomination by President Joe Biden for US Attorney General.

Senator Josh Hawley asked Garland his thoughts on "assaults on federal property in places other than Washington, DC, Portland, for instance, Seattle." Garland said, in essence, that while the attack on the Capitol was domestic terrorism, the attacks on federal buildings over the summer likely were not.

"Do you regard assaults on federal courthouses or other federal property as acts of domestic extremism, domestic terrorism?"

"Well Senator, my own definition, which is about the same as the statutory definition, is the use of violence or threats of violence in an attempt to disrupt democratic processes. So an attack on a courthouse while in operation, trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases, that plainly is domestic extremism, domestic terrorism.

"An attack simply on a government property, at night, or any other kind of circumstances 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.

"Both are criminal, but one is a core attack on our Democratic institutions," Garland said.

As regards the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Garland intends to deal harshly with those who participated.

(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: doj; merrickgarland; merrickposgarland; rolandfreisler; searchworks
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1 posted on 02/22/2021 6:11:39 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

WTF?

I may have been BORN at night, but it wasn’t LAST night.


2 posted on 02/22/2021 6:13:02 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The FBI used to go after communists. Now it is run by communists. The American Stasi.)
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To: RandFan

Of course, because court proceedings may resume the day after the courthouse is reduced to a heap of smoldering rubble.


3 posted on 02/22/2021 6:13:34 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
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To: RandFan

I can’t wait to start night time raping and stealing.


4 posted on 02/22/2021 6:14:35 PM PST by EEGator
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To: RandFan

what if they attacked during lunch break?


5 posted on 02/22/2021 6:14:50 PM PST by janetjanet998
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To: RandFan

I had forgotten. Terrorist attacks can’t take place at
night. Good call... /s

Earlier I read he stated that it wasn’t terrorism if the
court house (perhaps federal building) was closed.

I thought of the times an attack on the Super-Bowl was
bandied about, but now I realize that wouldn’t be an
act of terrorism. Silly me...


6 posted on 02/22/2021 6:20:08 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: RandFan

This is the guy the lefties wanted on SCOTUS?


7 posted on 02/22/2021 6:20:30 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: RandFan

So far, I’ve found the Liberals’ “God Of Justice” a friggin’ retarded moron. The boy is a pure idiot. He’s a racist bigot that hates Caucasians too. Now I can see why the ‘RATS were so upset when Trump wouldn’t let the maggot anywhere near SCOTUS. Good move by our President.


8 posted on 02/22/2021 6:20:41 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: RandFan

What a friggin idiot!!


9 posted on 02/22/2021 6:21:11 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: RandFan

Reminds me of Bill Clinton and his quote, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”


10 posted on 02/22/2021 6:22:38 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: RandFan

Terrorism keeps certain hours as well as Covid. Who’d a thunk it?


11 posted on 02/22/2021 6:22:40 PM PST by BipolarBob (Biden/Harris - the regime our Founding fathers warned us about.)
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To: RandFan; All

The MORE that I learn about the FASCIST DIMocRAT EXTREMISTS of the “Cracker Joe & da HO” misadministration, the BETTER that I regard poisonous snakes, venomous lizards, roaches, spiders & other “CREEPY CRAWLIES”.

Just SEEING/HEARING Joe Biden or Kamala Harris makes me GAG.

Yours, ex-cadet


12 posted on 02/22/2021 6:22:53 PM PST by ex-cadet
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To: RandFan

So if they’d blown up the Workd Trade Center at night it wouldn’t have been terrorism.


13 posted on 02/22/2021 6:23:24 PM PST by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RandFan

Roflol!!!


14 posted on 02/22/2021 6:24:21 PM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: RandFan

His definition would make peaceful civil disobedience defined as terrorism.


15 posted on 02/22/2021 6:24:33 PM PST by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RandFan
What a lame answer, and Garland knows this. He is trying to make Hawley look foolish, but instead makes himself look dumb.
16 posted on 02/22/2021 6:25:11 PM PST by Major Matt Mason
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To: RandFan

I remember the advice to not go full retard. And it just got disregarded.


17 posted on 02/22/2021 6:25:52 PM PST by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: RandFan

This stupidity is SO not going to end well.


18 posted on 02/22/2021 6:26:03 PM PST by PLMerite
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To: RandFan

Merry needs to go after the BLM cop killers/Walmart destroyers the way he intends to go after Conservative Americans. We have too many Nazis in the current administration. We need to start filing lawsuits against the far left bastards the way they went after everyone in the Trump administration.


19 posted on 02/22/2021 6:27:57 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: RandFan

Was Benghazi at night?


20 posted on 02/22/2021 6:27:58 PM PST by Ben Dover
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