The Inside Word Is Garland Wants To Wait Until A Judge Says The Congress Has A Legislative Goal In Investigating The Insurrection - That's His Excuse For His Nonfeasance

IT IS TIME FOR MERRICK GARLAND TO BE REPLACED WITH SOMEONE WHO WILL DO THE JOB.  He is not a fucking judge, he's in a prosecutorial position.  As I've pointed out when he was a judge he had the reputation of being tough on crime, I suspect mostly on unconnected, poor people, most likely, our legal system being what it is, disproportionately People of Color. 

With his cowardly refusal to prosecute the main players in the attempted coup that culminated on January 6th and the go-easy on so many of those who have been prosecuted and convicted in an actual insurrection against the government of the United States, the worst one conducted on the center of American government since the Brits in 1812 he has forfeited any claim he has to any kind of a position of power.  President Biden should face the fact that he made a huge mistake in naming the man who Obama wanted to put on the Supreme Court only to have him denied so much as a courtesy visit by Mitch and his caucus of Republican goons.  He was not due the position of Attorney General as a concession prize.   That's Aaron Sorkin fantasy, not real life.

In taking the office he swore as part of his official obligations to do exactly what he is not doing now, he swore:

 “I will support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

He didn't swear an oath to scrupulously cover his ass by not prosecuting someone as obviously breaking the law as Steve Bannon who is in open, obvious and total contempt of Congress, seriously endangering the investigation that the Congress is conducting into the plot to overturn the election of 2020.  There is no rational or even honestly irrational case to be made that Bannon is has not broken the law yet Merrick Garland and his team are letting him get away with it and with him getting away with it encouraging his fellow putschists to get away with it. 

Merrick Garland should be asked to give his resignation today.  He should be replaced by someone with the stomach and courage for the job before he can't be replaced.  He is in violation of his oath of office, something which we have become accustomed to in high court judges and "justices" members of Congress and, especially the Senate.  But he is in an especially dangerous position because his cowardly inaction prevents those who want to remain faithful to their oaths can't do their job since he won't do his.