President Joe Biden - Kamala Harris Administration

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NorthDallas40 said:
But the trip was super successful <insert maniacal giggles>

Obrador tells dipshit giggles to pound sand.

Harris says Mexico's refusal to take back migrant families was not discussed during trip
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Giggles's job is so far over her oily-haired head. She hates her job & doesn't want to do anything but draw a check. President Harris & her VP are so lost and don't know how to lead this country that they can't find the door that says exit this way. These two clueless clowns don't know their ass from a hole in the ground in how to solve problems ..... they only know how to create problems & a crisis one after another.
 
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As Attorney General, Merrick Garland has basically sought to continue the status quo of the DOJ across the board. Garland appears to be in lockstep with policies that conservative Republicans held dear while Trump was president. Why didn't Republicans want Garland on the Supreme Court again?

Per: The New Republic

Why is Merrick Garland Defending Donald Trump?
In the name of returning the DOJ to "normal," the attorney general has protected an abnormal president from accountability.

(excerpt)

By Jeff Hauser, Max Moran

June 8, 2021

Monday night, Merrick Garland's Justice Department shocked a lot of people by filing a brief in federal court effectively shielding Donald Trump from justice in a defamation suit over allegations that Trump may have raped writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990's. Bill Barr, Trump's attorney general, had come up with the argument that as a federal employee, Trump could not be sued for defamation. Observers had widely expected Biden's department to reject that claim, so the announcement left Carroll's lawyers and many observers slack-jawed.

It shouldn't have. On several key matters, Garland's DOJ has concealed the full extent of Trump's wrongdoing; it has kept thousands of immigrants from obtaining green cards, while flooding the immigration system with Trump-selected judges; expanded the scope of police power; ensured oil and gas profits for decades to come; and explicitly protected one of Trump's most hated Cabinet secretaries from accountability. Indeed, Garland has quietly emerged as Donald Trump's hatchet man, doing almost everything in his power to protect the former president's legacy.

On May 24, Garland committed the DOJ to keep much of the so-called "Barr memo" - through which Garland's predecessor almost unilaterally decided that no part of the Mueller probe would result in criminal charges - a secret. Even Trump enemies who scoffed at the Russia probe should be disturbed by Garland's other decisions, though. He has committed the DOJ to defending a Trump-era policy slashing the number of legal immigrants who qualify for green cards. He's hiring dozens of new immigration court judges who received their initial offers during the Trump era, and codified Trump-era rules restricting immigrants' options to prevent their own deportations. Garland's Civil Rights Division also remains perilously understaffed, enormously hampering its ability to conduct oversight of municipal police departments. It also pursued private chat logs between government employees and reporters, a censorious case that began in the last 15 days of the Trump administration.
 
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As Attorney General, Merrick Garland has basically sought to continue the status quo of the DOJ across the board. Garland appears to be in lockstep with policies that conservative Republicans held dear while Trump was president. Why didn't Republicans want Garland on the Supreme Court again?

Per: The New Republic

Why is Merrick Garland Defending Donald Trump?
In the name of returning the DOJ to "normal," the attorney general has protected an abnormal president from accountability.

(excerpt)

By Jeff Hauser, Max Moran

June 8, 2021

Monday night, Merrick Garland's Justice Department shocked a lot of people by filing a brief in federal court effectively shielding Donald Trump from justice in a defamation suit over allegations that Trump may have raped writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990's. Bill Barr, Trump's attorney general, had come up with the argument that as a federal employee, Trump could not be sued for defamation. Observers had widely expected Biden's department to reject that claim, so the announcement left Carroll's lawyers and many observers slack-jawed.

It shouldn't have. On several key matters, Garland's DOJ has concealed the full extent of Trump's wrongdoing; it has kept thousands of immigrants from obtaining green cards, while flooding the immigration system with Trump-selected judges; expanded the scope of police power; ensured oil and gas profits for decades to come; and explicitly protected one of Trump's most hated Cabinet secretaries from accountability. Indeed, Garland has quietly emerged as Donald Trump's hatchet man, doing almost everything in his power to protect the former president's legacy.

On May 24, Garland committed the DOJ to keep much of the so-called "Barr memo" - through which Garland's predecessor almost unilaterally decided that no part of the Mueller probe would result in criminal charges - a secret. Even Trump enemies who scoffed at the Russia probe should be disturbed by Garland's other decisions, though. He has committed the DOJ to defending a Trump-era policy slashing the number of legal immigrants who qualify for green cards. He's hiring dozens of new immigration court judges who received their initial offers during the Trump era, and codified Trump-era rules restricting immigrants' options to prevent their own deportations. Garland's Civil Rights Division also remains perilously understaffed, enormously hampering its ability to conduct oversight of municipal police departments. It also pursued private chat logs between government employees and reporters, a censorious case that began in the last 15 days of the Trump administration.
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Turn it around and then ask yourself why Obama and liberals wanted him?
 
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As Attorney General, Merrick Garland has basically sought to continue the status quo of the DOJ across the board. Garland appears to be in lockstep with policies that conservative Republicans held dear while Trump was president. Why didn't Republicans want Garland on the Supreme Court again?

Per: The New Republic

Why is Merrick Garland Defending Donald Trump?
In the name of returning the DOJ to "normal," the attorney general has protected an abnormal president from accountability.

(excerpt)

By Jeff Hauser, Max Moran

June 8, 2021

Monday night, Merrick Garland's Justice Department shocked a lot of people by filing a brief in federal court effectively shielding Donald Trump from justice in a defamation suit over allegations that Trump may have raped writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990's. Bill Barr, Trump's attorney general, had come up with the argument that as a federal employee, Trump could not be sued for defamation. Observers had widely expected Biden's department to reject that claim, so the announcement left Carroll's lawyers and many observers slack-jawed.

It shouldn't have. On several key matters, Garland's DOJ has concealed the full extent of Trump's wrongdoing; it has kept thousands of immigrants from obtaining green cards, while flooding the immigration system with Trump-selected judges; expanded the scope of police power; ensured oil and gas profits for decades to come; and explicitly protected one of Trump's most hated Cabinet secretaries from accountability. Indeed, Garland has quietly emerged as Donald Trump's hatchet man, doing almost everything in his power to protect the former president's legacy.

On May 24, Garland committed the DOJ to keep much of the so-called "Barr memo" - through which Garland's predecessor almost unilaterally decided that no part of the Mueller probe would result in criminal charges - a secret. Even Trump enemies who scoffed at the Russia probe should be disturbed by Garland's other decisions, though. He has committed the DOJ to defending a Trump-era policy slashing the number of legal immigrants who qualify for green cards. He's hiring dozens of new immigration court judges who received their initial offers during the Trump era, and codified Trump-era rules restricting immigrants' options to prevent their own deportations. Garland's Civil Rights Division also remains perilously understaffed, enormously hampering its ability to conduct oversight of municipal police departments. It also pursued private chat logs between government employees and reporters, a censorious case that began in the last 15 days of the Trump administration.
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I know this will make your idiot liberal head explode but did you ever consider that Barr’s approach was actually correct and thus is the proper course of action for Garland to continue? 🤡
 
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Turn it around and then ask yourself why Obama and liberals wanted him?
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In light of how he has run the DOJ these last four months, I have no idea why they wanted him. Garland is no liberal... that's for damn sure. On the major points, he hasn't changed anything from Barr's DOJ.
 
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He should have gotten a vote. So if he's reasonable then his actions now are reasonable and hence Barr's were too.
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Garland was a pretty damn good choice I think and he deserved a vote. But as is usual on both sides of the aisle these days politics got in the way.

He is by far the best Biden appointee thus far.

I was a little concerned at some of the Q&A during the Senate interview but he has done a decent job thus far.
 
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He should have gotten a vote. So if he's reasonable then his actions now are reasonable and hence Barr's were too.
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If Garland had been appointed by a Republican president... I would call him a right wing activist AG, just like Sessions was. I called him "reasonable" because in the wildest dreams of a Republican, you couldn't possibly hope to have someone like Garland working as the Attorney General for a Democratic Party president.

At the very least, Garland has been misread. He isn't center-left, as we have thought. He is center-right.. or even just right-wing. This isn't what you sign up for when you vote for a Democrat to be the president.

The only positive about Garland from the liberal perspective is that his time as AG does show how stupid it was for Republicans to block him. He is at least as conservative as Gorsuch.
 
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If Garland had been appointed by a Republican president... I would call him a right wing activist AG, just like Sessions was. I called him "reasonable" because in the wildest dreams of a Republican, you couldn't possibly hope to have someone like Garland working as the Attorney General for a Democratic Party president.

At the very least, Garland has been misread. He isn't center-left, as we have thought. He is center-right.. or even just right-wing. This isn't what you sign up for when you vote for a Democrat to be the president.

The only positive about Garland from the liberal perspective is that his time as AG does show how stupid it was for Republicans to block him. He is at least as conservative as Gorsuch.
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Garland is left of center but it appears he doesn't let his politics influence his apolitical job. That is a good thing.

Sessions was far from being a right wing activist, far from it.
 
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If Garland had been appointed by a Republican president... I would call him a right wing activist AG, just like Sessions was. I called him "reasonable" because in the wildest dreams of a Republican, you couldn't possibly hope to have someone like Garland working as the Attorney General for a Democratic Party president.

At the very least, Garland has been misread. He isn't center-left, as we have thought. He is center-right.. or even just right-wing. This isn't what you sign up for when you vote for a Democrat to be the president.

The only positive about Garland from the liberal perspective is that his time as AG does show how stupid it was for Republicans to block him. He is at least as conservative as Gorsuch.
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dang you are far left if you think Garland is right wing and the rest of your rant shows it.
 
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Garland is left of center but it appears he doesn't let his politics influence his apolitical job. That is a good thing.

Sessions was far from being a right wing activist, far from it.
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Sessions was incompetent. Garland is qualified and refreshingly apolitical. And since he’s largely continuing Barr’s DOJ policies Barr must have been… 😏
 
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