I Can’t Do This In A Comment

Garland didn’t START his investigation until we had our first of the summer hearings, a YEAR into our investigation.

And now he’s incredibly silent, won’t even come out to defend his career prosecutors who got fired.

Despicable https://t.co/9mPWwij83K

— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@AdamKinzinger) July 19, 2026

It’s complicated.

At some point we have to approach the idea that *so* much of our lives- this blog, its comments, my online banking and that neat little mapping function in my brother's new car, actually lives in a "data center" somewhere and we have to make some distinctions and set some priorities. My personal take is "information" > "AI" > "cryptocurrency mining" but even that isn't as simple as I'd like it to be.

Garland was not appointed until February of Biden’s term. He started the investigation soon after, but that began with evidence gathering, which engaged the “due process of law” guaranteed by the 5th and 14th amendments (until the Roberts Court gets to them). And that meant court hearings in order to access information people had, on their phones and such.

That investigation proceeded and convinced Garland it needed a dedicated, i.e, “special prosecutor,” assigned to it.  And then John Roberts decided a GOP president needed to be protected from legal process. That slowed things down for months while the Sinister Six pondered how to package their lunacy; and let’s not overlook Aileen Cannon, who really should have been more strictly overseen by the 11th Circuit.

I appreciate the fans of TeeVee justice, who think it should all be wrapped up in an hour, but IT DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY! To go really old school, Perry Mason won every case in the preliminary hearing. It doesn’t work that way in real life because no prosecutor ever (well, before Trump’s DOJ) brings a case so weak it can be disassembled there. And for some reason, Hamilton Burger never took a murder charge to a grand jury.

BTW, the one case Perry Raymond Burr Mason ever lost, was a jury trial.  THAT’S real life.

Merrick Garland had to contend with reality, an out of control Supreme Court, and an electorate that didn’t give a shit, and (really) simply didn’t want a woman President.

Dese are de conditions dat prevail. Were it not for Aileen Cannon and the electorate, Trump would be appealing his D.C. criminal conviction by now, and defending himself in a Florida court, probably with a new judge.

Credit where credit is due. Nothing is as simple as we’d like it to be. Not even the subject of “data centers.”