dajo9 said:
At this point, two Trump lawyers are asserting the 5th amendment, which is generally believed, particularly by Trump himself, to be an admission of guilt of a crime, but which can't be admitted as evidence.
Trump lawyer, John Eastman, and Trump DOJ Asst. Attorney General, Jeffrey Clark have both virtually admitted guilt for their January 6th activities via invocation of the 5th amendment.
It is time for Merrick Garland to get much more involved. I am looking forward to the public hearings on January 6th that will happen next year. We have come along way from when Trumpophile FBI agents tried to derail the whole thing with anonymous leaks to the media.
I couldn't agree more. But don't hold your breath.
Remember -- Merrick Garland wasn't Obama's pick for SCOTUS; he was Sen. Orrin Hatch's (R-UT) pick, back when Hatch was the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Garland is a member of the extremist
Federalist Society, as are
all six of the conservative, extremist, Republican-appointed Justices.
There's no reason to expect Garland to do anything but run out the clock. If anything, he's more sympathetic to the insurrectionists.
The more important question is, Why did Biden pick Garland for AG, when he had perfectly capable people like Sally Yates, who served as interim AG during the Trump transition, and would've been an aggressive prosecutor of the Insurrectionists?
Remember: Capital Hates democracy.
Capital has a compelling interest in removing Biden and the Democrats from political power, because the last vestiges of any political power that Labor might have are (for now) within the Democratic Party.
With the threat of any pro-Labor or pro-Individual legislation now removed, and with the Progressives in Congress humiliated and defeated, Biden has served his purpose, and is no longer needed.
Biden's big mistake was in not securing voting rights & creating Federal standards for elections first.