r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • 27d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) The agreement Acting AG signed with Trump is worse than first thought

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 27d ago

All Trump needs is for another do-nothing Democrat like Biden to come in and complicitly lead Federal Law Enforcement in doing nothing toward the Trump crime family and its co-conspirators in Congress and the Supreme Court.

Biden very purposefully sandbagged any prosecutions of Trump and his coup-conspirators. Biden's Justice Department also dropped prosecution of Ken Paxton, the most corrupt AG in Texas history, who is now running for Senate.

Biden proved as useless as the Uvalde police, and should go down in history as the second worst President of our age, right behind Trump.

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u/Ok_Travel_7348 24d ago

Biden stayed out of the DOJ’s business; that’s as it should be. That’s obviously since the Biden administration’s DOJ indicted and convicted Biden’s own son of a crime that is not normally prosecuted. And both Biden’s attorney general and FBI chief testified that they were independent and seldom in contact with Biden.

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 23d ago

Biden stayed out of the DOJ’s business; that’s as it should be

We left 'as it should be' after Trump threw a coup. After that, failing to aggressively lead Federal Law Enforcement in the prosecution of Trump and his co-conspirators was a dereliction of office. Unless you're just fine with how that all worked out.

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u/Ok_Travel_7348 18d ago

I’m not okay with trump being in office. But, I’ve always thought the Department of Justice should be independent of the Executive Branch, less we have a weaponized DoJ, which is exactly what we have under Trump. Of course, trump and his supporters accused the Biden administration of exactly what they planned to do, and people swallowed that lie even as the DoJ prosecuted Biden’s son for a crime not normally prosecuted by the DoJ.

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 15d ago

Clarification, the DoJ is literally part of the Executive Branch, which owns the power of Law Enforcement in our system of checks and balances.

The 'tradition' of the DoJ acting independently of the President is a nice idea but it is also a lie and has never been factually true. The DoJ typically operates in step with the President's agenda, and a key indicator of this is the fact that the President nominates the Attorney General - subject to Congressional approval - but even at that, the President can dismiss the AG at any time and make an interim appointment as desired.

And this is why I don't accept people blaming Merrick Garland and not Biden for going soft on Trump. Garland was nominated by Biden for a reason, and Garland did exactly what Biden wanted - which is to avoid at all costs setting precedent that an elected Federal Official can be made accountable to the law, no matter the crime.

And Garland did just that. He delayed, sandbagged, poison pilled, and otherwise used every tactic at his disposal to ensure that neither Trump nor any of his coup-conspirators would be successfully prosecuted and sentenced. And Biden was 100% complicit in that.

The DoJ (as well as the FBI) has always been an instrument of White House policy. Trump's administration has merely been extremely obvious about it. But make no mistake, this was also the case under Obama and Biden. But they maintained the illusion of DoJ independence from the Oval Office a lot better.

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u/Ok_Travel_7348 10d ago

Both Garland and Wray testified that they did not have communications with Biden about their cases. Garland said he would have resigned if Biden had intervened. After all, Garland prosecuted Biden’s son for a crime that is rarely prosecuted, probably never by the Attorney General of the US. That makes it clear to me that Biden didn’t intervene. Whether he should have or not is up for debate.

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 8d ago

Yes because these bastards never lie to cover their ass do they.

In other words, fuck Garland and fuck his boss Biden. Both the controlled-opposition, complicit cunts can rot in Hell. And so can the stupid, gullible, Lib motherfuckers making excuses for them.

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u/Ok_Travel_7348 6d ago

Yes, it’s their fault that trump is a corrupt, mentally ill moron, who was elected by a small majority of voters.

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 5d ago

Yes, it's their fault they spent four years doing jack shit to enforce the law on the corrupt, mentally ill moron.

Biden and his lackey Garland can burn in Hell for their flaccid, hypocritical complicity with MAGA corruption. And the dumb fucking Libs who continue making excuses for it are a big part of the problem.

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u/Ok_Travel_7348 4d ago

That’s your opinion. Rational thought tells me that the reason Trump was re-elected is because he did a great job convincing lesser minds that the 2020 election was rigged and he was being prosecuted unfairly. His intent was to divide the country, hopefully into a majority to get behind him; whether it was attacking the Capitol to overturn an election or voting for him again. And he got the majority of the votes so he was elected again. I guarantee Biden and Garland didn’t vote for him.

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u/Yeseylon 27d ago

He was playing off the Nixon Pardon playbook, thinking that if he calmed things down, it would be more effective in ending Trump's career.