{"id":5474,"date":"2022-04-04T08:38:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2022-04-04T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:51:09","slug":"garlands-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2022\/04\/04\/garlands-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Garland\u2019s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Insurrection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attorney General Merrick Garland has a dilemma.\u00a0\u00a0For many Americans, the events that transpired from election day on November 3rd 2020 through the January 6th 2021 Insurrection at the Capitol, are some of the darkest moments in US History.\u00a0\u00a0But for many other Americans, those same events are seen in the exact opposite light.\u00a0\u00a0They are convinced that the election was stolen, and they see those who fought to reject the results as heroic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not all of the 72 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump believe the election was stolen by Democrats.&nbsp; Recent polling suggests that about thirty percent of all Americans think \u201cStop the Steal\u201d was real (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2022\/feb\/02\/viral-image\/no-most-americans-dont-believe-2020-election-was-f\/\">Politifact<\/a>).&nbsp;&nbsp;A quick \u201ccrunch\u201d shows that around 40 million, more than half of the Trump voters,&nbsp;&nbsp;think the election was stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Attorney General&#8217;s decision to pursue criminal charges should not be impacted by public polling.&nbsp;&nbsp;What Americans believe should be irrelevant to the law, or decisions about enforcement.&nbsp;But Merrick Garland is no \u201cblind justice\u201d statue, balancing the scales of criminality without regard.&nbsp;&nbsp;He is well aware:  no matter what he does, indict Trump and his team members or not, a huge proportion of Americans are going to be outraged.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Criminality<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, a Federal Judge in California ruled that Trump lawyer John Eastman could not use the \u201cattorney-client confidentiality\u201d privilege to withhold evidence of his interactions with\u00a0\u00a0then-President Trump.\u00a0\u00a0Judge David O. Carter ruled that the \u201ccrime\/fraud\u201d exception to confidentiality applied . He found that a preponderance of the evidence demonstrated that Donald Trump committed felony obstruction of Congress and conspired to defraud the United States (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-election-crimes.html\">NYT<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congressman Mo Brooks stated that Trump was still attempting to overturn the election as late as September of 2021.\u00a0\u00a0Ample evidence of disrupting the election process was also revealed by the January 6th Committee of the House of Representatives. Messages displayed the out-sized role that Senator Ted Cruz played.\u00a0\u00a0Even Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was actively involved in the planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pressure is growing on the Attorney General to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Precedence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there is a lot of momentum against indicting a former President.\u00a0\u00a0First, never has the winner of the White House brought charges against the loser.\u00a0\u00a0There is a \u201cbanana Republic\u201d aspect to that:\u00a0\u00a0the winner enters the Presidential Palace and the loser is soon in jail. That happens in the Caribbean and South and Central American countries.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not \u201cdone\u201d in the United States, no matter the possible transgressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And second, there is a tradition of protecting Presidential actions and privileges by the Department. That\u2019s not surprising, the Department of Justice is part of the executive branch, and ultimately answers to the President.\u00a0\u00a0The famous \u201cmemo\u201d from Watergate days states that a serving President cannot even be indicted.\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps the greatest example is when President Gerald Ford granted a blanket pardon to his predecessor, Richard Nixon, for any crimes he may have committed as President.\u00a0\u00a0That decision generated a lot of outrage at the time, but in retrospect is seen as  \u201cgood\u201d, moving the country beyond Watergate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, the most recent episode of \u201chistoric immunity\u201d is part of the direct experience of the current Department of Justice leaders.\u00a0\u00a0When Barack Obama took office in 2009, there was a lot of discussion about holding the Bush Administration accountable for the illegal rendition and torture of accused terrorists after the attacks on 9-11.\u00a0\u00a0The Bush Justice Department itself issued an advisory approving \u201cenhanced interrogation techniques\u201d, torture by any other name, including waterboarding and prolonged nudity and \u201cstress\u201d positions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Obama soon shot down attempts to hold the former executive legally responsible, but re-wrote the rules to prohibit further actions.\u00a0\u00a0That \u201cprecedent\u201d is deeply ingrained in today\u2019s decision makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Balance the Scale<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, there are even more Americans who see a failure to prosecute the Trump leadership as dangerous.\u00a0\u00a0In their view, the rules have NOT been rewritten.\u00a0\u00a0Nothing has changed to protect the electoral process.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, many states have written laws making it even more difficult to vote. They are \u201cfixing\u201d an election security problem that never existed in the first place.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the illegal actions of 2020 and 2021 remain unpunished,&nbsp;&nbsp;they feel it encourages the same folks to try it again, even \u201cbetter\u201d in 2024. It\u2019s not about the past, but what is being planned for the future.&nbsp;&nbsp;Donald Trump himself continues to press the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d story.&nbsp;&nbsp;And belief that the election was stolen has become a litmus test for current Republicans seeking nomination for future office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When President Biden appointed Federal Appellate Court Judge Merrick Garland to be Attorney General, his primary goal was to \u201cde-politicize\u201d the Department of Justice.\u00a0\u00a0The Trump Attorney Generals, Sessions, Whittaker, and Barr; all bowed to the whims of the White House.\u00a0\u00a0Barr blatantly pardoned Trump\u2019s friends and prosecuted his enemies.\u00a0\u00a0Not since the Nixon-Watergate era, had the President\u2019s thumb been so heavily placed on the scale of justice.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And everything about Trump and \u201cStop the Steal\u201d is political, exactly where Merrick Garland does not want to go.&nbsp;&nbsp;So it should be no surprise that he seems more than reluctant to enter the fray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Justice and justice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But justice does need to be served.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the Nixon pardon, it was clear to the vast majority of the nation that Nixon had \u201cdone wrong\u201d, and was getting away with it.&nbsp;&nbsp;But the vast majority also wanted to get past the two years of \u201call Watergate, all the time\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;The corruption, and the cure, were clear, whether Richard Nixon himself ever stood before the Bar or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same cannot be said about Trump.&nbsp;&nbsp;The era of \u201cStop the Steal\u201d didn\u2019t end on election night in November.  Nor did it end on the Capitol steps in January.&nbsp;&nbsp;In many ways, \u201cStop the Steal\u201d is stronger now, with more widespread political support, than it had eighteen months ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;Only Justice, and justice, can balance the scale and protect the American democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurrection Attorney General Merrick Garland has a dilemma.\u00a0\u00a0For many Americans, the events that transpired from election day on November 3rd 2020 through the January 6th 2021 Insurrection at the Capitol, are some of the darkest moments in US History.\u00a0\u00a0But for many other Americans, those same events are seen in the exact opposite light.\u00a0\u00a0They are convinced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2022\/04\/04\/garlands-dilemma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Garland\u2019s Dilemma&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Garland\u2019s Dilemma : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AG Garland was appointed to de-politicize the Justice Dept. 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