BY BILL JUNEAU
Most Americans first heard of Merrick Garland in 2016 when he was nominated by President Obama to become the next Justice of the U.S Supreme Court, as the replacement for Antonin Scalia who had died in office. Scalia was a popular conservative who followed the law and had the respect of his fellow jurists on the nation's final and highest court.
Small in stature, timid and resembling a curious owl, Judge Garland, of the United States Court of Appeals for 30 years, was touted by Obama and Democrats as fair and impartial, and intelligent and passionate in deciding issues confronting citizens. Few Americans had ever seen Garland or even heard his name, but they were being told by Democrats that he was a giant legal mind without any political animus.
. Because of the approaching presidential election in November of 2016, and because of the nominee's reputation as a malleable puppet for Democrats, Garland's nomination was never considered for confirmation by the Senate. Donald Trump won that election and he promptly nominated conservative Appellate Court Jurist Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacancy, and the Senate consented to the new President's selection.
Merrick Garland continued in his judicial role as Chief Justice of the D.C. Appellate Court, regarded by attorneys as the nation's most left-wing panel of federal judges. He was appointed Attorney General by President Biden in February of last year. He had served on the Appellate court following his appointment by President Clinton.
As the new Attorney General, the 69-year-old bespectacled Garland, who speaks in low, halting tones, similar to President Biden's raspy horse whisper, took over the Department of Justice with supervision of thousands and with a controlling whip over the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
After some ten months of his liberal leadership, at least two senators have called for his resignation and Arkansas senator Tom Cotton characterized his policies as "shameful," saying he was a "disgrace" as the nation's 86th Attorney General.
With his strong hand on investigations, Garland has seen to it that the misadventures and corruption of Biden's son, Hunter, allegedly a cocaine addict, has been set aside by the FBI. Garland's Department of Justice has had nothing to say about the allegations of corruption and money laundering and kick backs to Joe Biden, referred to on Hunter Biden's laptop computer as "the Big Guy."
All talk about Joe Biden's activities in the Ukraine and how he arranged an $83,000 a month job on a the board of a corrupt gas company for Hunter, has also disappeared in the wind. Instead, over his first 10 months in office, Garland has endorsed continued attacks on former President Trump and last May had a search warrant served on the home of Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, a former New York mayor who is best remembered for having reduced street crime and corruption in the Big Apple.
Applauded by the Democratic party and its progressive wing led by Bernie Sanders and the female "squad" of four in Congress, Garland has demonstrated his dogged commitment to promoting Marxist, left wing policies, and of allowing America to head down a path of socialism and hard- handed authoritarianism.
Last October, with back door approval from President Biden and his minions, Garland lighted a firestorm with issuance of a memo endorsing the far out theory that parents who object passionately to CRT (Critical Race Theory) being taught in schools, or the forced wearing of masks by children, can be considered "terrorists" and should be dealt with by the iron hand of the FBI, using the Patriot Act whenever necessary.
With the CRT, children are filled to the brim with anti-American philosophy and derogation of the U.S. Constitution and our nation's many brave Americans who have made America stand tall in the world.
In the case of a Virginia girl who had been sexually assaulted in a girl's bathroom by a non-binary boy wearing a skirt, an angry father became enraged when the school board treated the incident as a fairy tale. In that situation, police were called and the father was physically thrown on the floor, hauled away and charged with a crime. Radical school board members endorsed the treatment of the parent as a"terrorist," in keeping with the get-tough-with-terrorists memo issued and promoted by Garland.
Films of the pummeling of the father by police at the school board meeting were shown to Garland during a hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri then demanded that Garland apologize to the concerned father, and recall and delete the memo. Garland avoided an answer, explaining that his concern is "violence" which cannot be tolerated anywhere. Hawley then called upon Garland to resign.
At that committee hearing, Senator Cotton took issue with Garland when he denied that the memo was depicting complaining parents as terrorists. They are protected by the first amendment said Garland. Violence by anyone, everywhere is the target, said Garland, sidestepping the senator's concern.
"True threats of violence are not protected by the First Amendment," said Garland. Those are the only things we are worried about. We are not investigating peaceful protests or parents involvement in school board meetings. ..we would never do that."
The Congressman, a former captain in the Infantry, told the mousey, soft speaking Attorney General that your conduct and judgment is "shameful...Your directive (memo) is shameful. Thank God, you are not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace." Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, former attorney general for the state, demanded to know if Garland had considered the chilling effect the memo might have on parents exercising their constitutional rights. Garland replied that “I don’t believe it’s reasonable to read this memo as chilling anyone’s rights." Cornyn shot back: “Let the record reflect the attorney general refused to answer the question.”
Garland also faces criticism for his leadership role in fostering the investigation into the January 6 mob action at the Capitol. His claim of five deaths resulting from the "insurrection," is inaccurate and made up to satisfy Democrats who want to blame former president Trump. Factually, one person was killed in the rioting----Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed air force veteran, who was shot by a Capitol police lieutenant who acted recklessly and without provocation. According to medical determinations, two succumbed from natural causes and two officers committed suicide in the days following the rioting inside the Capitol.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has also criticized Garland during hearings for his possible conflict of interest in allowing the dissemination of CRT materials,which are sold to schools by Garland's son-in-law. Cruz has charged that the Attorney General should have obtained an ethics opinion concerning his daughter's husband's activities. To date, Galand has declined to respond to Sen. Cruz or explain his alleged violation of ethics requirements.
The perception that the bespectacled, ultra- liberal Garland is fair, judicious and patriotic is an illusion in the face of him not only disparaging parents who object to progressive, anti-American theories being force-fed to young students in many schools, but also for his unwillingness to investigate the possible corrupt practices of President Biden's drug addicted son.
Chuck Grassley of Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a respected and veteran congressman, summed up his assessment of Garland as a hearing was closing.
" Right now," said Grassley, "it looks like the Department of Justice is running you. The department has moved as far left as it could go. You politicized the department in ways it shouldn’t be.”
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