Merrick Garland! Neera Tanden! Xavier Becerra! The Dems are really overplaying their hand: Will the Republicans cave?

Merrick Garland, the man Obama wanted to put on the SCOTUS, is now President Biden's choice to be his attorney general. Based on what we heard Monday, we can breathe a sigh of relief that he never made it onto the Supreme Court.

p>But then again, those whom Trump did get confirmed for the court have thoroughly abdicated their responsibility, betrayed the oath they took as justices. With the exception of Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch, it appears there are no other actual constitutionalists seated there.

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But back to Garland. He evaded answering most questions posed by Republicans. He compared the January 6 events at the Capitol to the Oklahoma City bombing (168 killed)! He refused to condemn the billions of dollars in damage done by Antifa and BLM as domestic terrorism but vowed to prosecute all who were involved in the January 6 breach, even though the only person with a gun was the person who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt. It should be clear to every sentient American that what happened that day was carefully planned, not by Trump-supporters, but by their opponents, who strategized that a conflagration would be the perfect stunt with which to impugn the president.

Garland's evasive non-answers were truly shocking. Why didn't the Republicans in the room get up and walk out? Why do the Republicans always cave in collective knee-jerk fashion to the authoritarian pretenses of the left? It is a question for the ages, for it has so long been true. Trump's brash courage to fight back showed us who the good guys are and who the cowards are. Sadly, those with the courage of their conservative pro-American convictions are too few.

During his testimony, Merrick Garland said that domestic terrorism in America today is “more dangerous” than at the time of the 1996 Oklahoma City bombing, and pledged to continue the investigation in the January 6 Capitol riot wherever it takes him, including “aiders and abettors who were not present on January 6.” To elaborate on his position on domestic terrorism, Senator Hawley asked Garland whether he considered antifa assaults on federal property, like courthouses and other federal buildings in (for example) Seattle and Portland, where antifa and BLM rioted in the summer of 2020.

“An attack on a courthouse while in operation — trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases—that plainly is domestic uh uh um um uh uh extremism uh uh um um uh uh um domestic terrorism,” Garland explained before adding the following caveat: “An attack simply on government property at night, or under any other kind of circumstances, is a clear crime and a serious one, and should be punished.”

“I don’t mean—I don’t know enough of the facts of the example you were talking about,” Garland told Hawley. Apparently, Garland slept through the summer of 2020.

“But, that’s where I draw the line,” Garland continued. “One is, uh, both are criminal, um uh uh, but one is, uh, a core attack on our democratic institutions.”

Merrick Garland! Neera Tanden! Xavier Becerra! The Dems are really overplaying their hand: Will the Republicans cave?

The Republicans make the French look like Spartans at the pass.

Treasonous WIMPS swimming in their swamp, bleating swamp gasses endlessly. If their swamp gas would power vehicles we'd be energy independent forever.

For some oddball reason I went to the website https://www.supremecourt.gov/ and found that to be about as disregarded, lost and forgotten as the United States Supreme Court really has become.

Missing since 10/27/2020 (about 4 months) is a picture of the newest justice Current members page

And on the group picture page Perhaps an update is due? There's something stale about the Roberts court, like a funeral home.

Merrick Garland said yesterday that the DOJ under his leadership will enforce all gun control proposals that come down the pike. He has just committed to being an avidly anti-gun AG, as bad as if not worse than the utterly reprehensible Eric Holder.

The U.S. Constitution, which is what the United States was all about, is about to be shredded and tossed in the sewer.

And the courts will go along with it.

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