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Merrick Garland has proved himself unfit for Supreme Court — but he shouldn’t be AG either
NY Post ^ | 28 Oct 2021 | Glenn H Reynolds

Posted on 10/29/2021 7:23:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama died on base when Republicans refused to take it up. The seat was instead filled by now-Justice Neil Gorsuch. Garland’s consolation prize: becoming President Joe Biden’s attorney general. Yet in nine short months, he’s proved not only unfit to sit on the court but unfit to serve as attorney general. Indeed, his behavior suggests he’s not qualified for any federal position.

Garland’s nomination to the court was always iffy. Libertarians thought his track record was dangerously authoritarian. The trustees of the estate of the late Justice William Brennan, for whom Garland had clerked, inexplicably sealed records having to do with Garland’s time working at the court. And though Garland was touted as a “moderate,” a straight-shooter who could cruise to an easy confirmation, he satisfied neither the Democratic left nor the Republican center.

But what Garland has demonstrated as AG is a different kind of deficit, a deficit of character and integrity. As Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said to Garland in hearings this week, “Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court.”

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This administration...... corrupt, incompetent, unqualified, and tyrannical from the top down.
1 posted on 10/29/2021 7:23:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

And he looks and sounds like a weasel bastard.


2 posted on 10/29/2021 7:25:24 AM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: Rummyfan

Turning the DOJ into the KGB.


3 posted on 10/29/2021 7:26:52 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Rummyfan

Corrupt
Incompetent
Unqualified
Tyrannical

From the top down.

Perfect word choices. Maybe some clever FReeper can turn this into an acronym. It should also refer explicitly to the Biden Harris Administration.


4 posted on 10/29/2021 7:31:26 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

Merrick appears weak, sniveling, and whiny: alarmingly pathetic.


5 posted on 10/29/2021 7:35:55 AM PDT by doberville
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To: Rummyfan

I’ve been watching clips of the Senate hearings on the Forbes YouTube channel. I have never seen such a steady stream of progressive anti-American 2nd wave feminist moronic tribal focking weirdo wokie common sense-deprived echo chambered smug self-satisfied self-righteous poopy-brains in my life.


6 posted on 10/29/2021 7:36:41 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: JusPasenThru

I remember his SCOTUS nomination. The MSM had him labeled not-so-bad to conservatives.


7 posted on 10/29/2021 7:40:00 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: FamiliarFace

BIden’s
Scummy
Corrupt
Unqualified
Incompetent
Tyrannical
Administration

The BISCUIT Administration


8 posted on 10/29/2021 7:41:12 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: DIRTYSECRET

That’s because the MSM always tries to gaslight conservatives. Well, they gaslight everyone.


9 posted on 10/29/2021 7:42:43 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Rummyfan

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/twenty-republicans-confirmed-merrick-garland-politicized-doj/

Here are the Republicans who voted to confirm (AG) Garland:

Sen. Roy Blunt

Sen. Richard Burr

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito

Sen. Bill Cassidy

Sen. Susan Collins

Sen. John Cornyn

Sen. Joni Ernst

Sen. Lindsey Graham

Sen. Chuck Grassley

Sen. Jim Inhofe

Sen. Ron Johnson

Sen. James Lankford

Leader Mitch McConnell

Sen. Jerry Moran

Sen. Lisa Murkowski

Sen. Rob Portman

Sen. Mitt Romney

Sen. Mike Rounds

Sen. John Thune

Sen. Thom Tillis


10 posted on 10/29/2021 7:44:27 AM PDT by maggief
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You know, reading that list...you have to ask, what’s the point of the “Republican” party?

Trump’s appointees were basically all hard party line votes.

These people are the only saps going along with the “bipartisan” mantra.


11 posted on 10/29/2021 7:53:56 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Stalin’s first NKVD chief was a twisted, evil little man named Yezhov. Garland looks a bit like him.


12 posted on 10/29/2021 8:10:42 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: Rummyfan

13 posted on 10/29/2021 8:16:14 AM PDT by knarf
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To: maggief
Here are the Republicans who voted to confirm (AG) Garland: Sen. Roy Blunt Sen. Richard Burr Sen. Shelley Moore Capito Sen. Bill Cassidy Sen. Susan Collins Sen. John Cornyn Sen. Joni Ernst Sen. Lindsey Graham Sen. Chuck Grassley Sen. Jim Inhofe Sen. Ron Johnson Sen. James Lankford Leader Mitch McConnell Sen. Jerry Moran Sen. Lisa Murkowski Sen. Rob Portman Sen. Mitt Romney Sen. Mike Rounds Sen. John Thune Sen. Thom Tillis

No surprise there. These are the chronically "voting against our best interests" crowd. They need to be thrown out of Congress. They have done irreparable harm to America.

14 posted on 10/29/2021 8:20:35 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Rummyfan

The proof he is unfit for Supreme court justice and unfit for AG is Obama nominated him. Full stop.


15 posted on 10/29/2021 8:27:51 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

Nope. He’s a commie weasel bastard.


16 posted on 10/29/2021 8:28:48 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: doberville

I bet he’s not behind closed doors. I bet he’s a full throated Marxist tyrant.


17 posted on 10/29/2021 8:30:30 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Rummyfan
Am I the only one that thinks Merkin Garland is Jerry Springer's evil twin?


18 posted on 10/29/2021 8:34:33 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

>>looks and sounds like a weasel bastard<<

Weasel is the word that comes to my mind as well.


19 posted on 10/29/2021 8:38:53 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Rummyfan

Hush about Merrick Garland. His socialist treatment of American parents who want to have some control over what kind of slop is being shoved down their kid’s throats will cause the democratic party irreputable harm in the 2022 election.


20 posted on 10/29/2021 9:54:53 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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