{"id":18149,"date":"2021-12-29T16:25:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=18149"},"modified":"2022-07-15T19:18:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:18:51","slug":"asleep-at-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=18149","title":{"rendered":"asleep at the wheel?…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As Ukraine fights for it’s life ,the “greatest democracy in the world” waits for Justice to prevail and charge the lawless grifter of a 45th President and partners in crime with criminal activities that riddled his presidency. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Bannon & Trump salute fans in the museum.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If US Attorney General Merrick Garland is asleep at the wheel of justice as lawless authoritarian forces hold democracy by the throat; then arguably AG Garland will be judged to have contributed as much to the erosion of democratic principles of law and order as Donald Trump and his Republican sycophants.<\/p>anonymous <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Excepted from New York Times article “Will Donald Trump get away with inciting an insurrection?<\/strong>” By Laurence H. Tribe, Donald Ayer and Dennis Aftergut <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

  | Dec. 25, 2021, 11:00 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his nine months in office, Attorney General Merrick Garland has done a great deal to restore integrity and evenhanded enforcement of the law to an agency that was badly misused for political reasons under his predecessor. But his place in history will be assessed against the challenges that confronted him. And the overriding test that he and the rest of the government face is the threat to our democracy from people bent on destroying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garland\u2019s success depends on ensuring that the rule of law endures. That means dissuading future coup plotters by holding the leaders of the insurrection fully accountable for their attempt to overthrow the government. But he cannot do so without a robust criminal investigation of those at the top, from the people who planned, assisted or funded the attempt to overturn the Electoral College vote to those who organized or encouraged the mob attack on the Capitol. To begin with, he might focus on Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman <\/a>and even Donald Trump \u2014 all of whom were involved, in one way or another, in the events leading up to the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost a year after the insurrection, we have yet to see any clear indicators that such an investigation is underway, raising the alarming possibility that this administration may never bring charges against those ultimately responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Ukraine fights for it’s life ,the “greatest democracy in the world” waits for Justice to prevail and charge the lawless grifter of a 45th President and partners in crime with criminal activities that riddled his presidency. Bannon & Trump salute fans in the museum. If US Attorney General Merrick Garland is asleep at the … Continue reading “asleep at the wheel?…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18149"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20347,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18149\/revisions\/20347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}