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Many Progressives Sour on AG Garland, Some Demand Biden Replace Him

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A piece released today in the Washington Post Magazine stated in the headline that Attorney General Merrick Garland “Will not deliver your catharsis.”

That was followed by an explanation that “Progressives want a dramatic de-Trumpification of the Justice Department. But the attorney general has a different theory of how to heal America.”

The piece noted that in the critics’ view, the previous Justice Department wasn’t normal, so deference to its debatable decisions amounts to a perversion of justice masquerading as institutionalism.

Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project of the Center for Economic and Policy Research said, “Garland believes that a thorough de-Trumpification of the Justice Department would … be called partisanship and would call into question the institution of the Justice Department, but the institution has already been called into question.

“Sessions and Barr came in with a goal of assaulting and undermining the institution of the Justice Department, and it’s just weird to presume that they failed. We presume that they succeeded. They were in the building. They hired their minions. They assessed people. They politicized everything. Garland presuming that the previous Department of Justice was behaving in good faith requires the same suspension of disbelief as believing dragons are real in a fantasy novel,” Hauser claimed.

On Twitter, progressives appear to have mostly soured on Garland as Attorney General and they want clearly someone who will go after anyone associated with the previous administration with the full extent of whatever they can get away with.

Progressive Lindy Li said in a tweet, “I trust President Biden wholeheartedly. That said, I sincerely hope Attorney General Merrick Garland prosecutes Trump for inciting an insurrection and his many other crimes Doing so wouldn’t be partisan. It would be American We needed a bang. We’ve gotten a whimper.”

Another tweet by “LuLu boom boom Roche” called for Garland’s removal, suggesting, “I want him replaced with SALLY YATES.”

Actress Kathy Griffin lamented, “Merrick Garland is the new Robert Mueller, isn’t he?”

It is unlikely that Garland will bow to the pressure from these voices but certainly it will continue to mount as progressive supporters are expecting action, but thus far have not been satisfied.

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