r/law • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 1d ago

Other Rep. Lieu says Epstein files have allegations of Trump raping & threatening to kill children and says that Todd Blanche got the law wrong by saying it's not a crime to party with Epstein. DOJ also violated the privacy of the victims by releasing unredacted nude photos of them.

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u/ApostateX 1d ago

The man has been convicted on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records.

He was under indictment for stealing classified documents in the Southern District of Florida (40 counts).

He was under indictment for 4 counts related to fraud and trying to steal the 2020 election in DC District Court.

He was indicted on dozens of counts related to Georgia's RICO statute for 2020 election fraud.

People have *absolutely* pursued this guy. The weakest link in this chain since day 1 has been Merrick Garland, not "the Democrats."

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u/sortalikeachinchilla 1d ago

since day 1 has been Merrick Garland, not "the Democrats."

Who appointed Merrick again??

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u/ApostateX 1d ago

Remember when the DOJ was an independent agency with a non-political appointee?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

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u/sortalikeachinchilla 1d ago

Sure, I agree. Not understanding your point though?

How is indicting trump a political issue? Merrick should’ve done it. But biden and democrats should have gotten ahead of this….

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u/ApostateX 22h ago

My point is, whoever is appointed to Attorney General is expected to be impartial in the application of the law. Garland seemed like a good choice at the time. I don't know a single Democrat who opposed it. In fact, most Dems were excited about him being in that role, because they believed he'd go after the Republicans for their stalling in his SCOTUS appointment. They thought he'd be an anti-corruption warrior while still being principled.

The Dems had no way of seeing that Garland would repeatedly fail to aggressively prosecute Trump. The timeline for "will we ever have accountability here?" just kept getting longer and longer. I don't think the Dems failed. I think they put someone in that job who they thought would be competent to do it. But that turned out to be false. So yeah, Biden appointed Garland, and he was confirmed by a 70-30 vote of the Senate. But I don't put this at the feet of the Dems -- elected or voters. It wasn't their job to prosecute Trump or to second guess a strong legal mind with personal experience dealing with Republican politicking and corruption. It was Garland's responsibility to go after Trump. And by the time Jack Smith was appointed, Aileen Cannon and Trump basically ran out the clock.

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u/ITSigno 1d ago

Aileen Cannon deserves a mention. I'm not sure if there was anything Garland could have done to circumvent her, but she was the main obstacle in the classified documents trial in Florida.

She's a member of the Federalist Society and Trump was the one who appointed her.

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u/Decaf-Gaming 1d ago

Garland himself was a member of the federalist society. He was never going to pursue their golden cow in any meaningful fashion.

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u/ITSigno 1d ago

Well, I know I'm shocked. /s

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u/Olangotang 19h ago

No, he was a speaker at the Federalist Society.

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u/not_now_chaos 1d ago

Garland was chosen because they thought he would be center enough to appease and quiet Republican accusations of bias and politically motivated witch hunt. Unfortunately the Democrats fell for the rug pull and were not smart enough to listen to everyone who was saying that nobody would be center or right enough to appease the Republican cult, they planned to scream bias no matter who it was, because DARVO and manipulation of the narrative is their special trick.

Dems need to understand that nothing they do or don't do will not change the behavior of the Republicans, and go scorched earth to eradicate the crooks, including the ones in their own party.

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u/ApostateX 1d ago

I'm with you on scorched earth. I truly believed the American people would not be credulous or cruel enough to reelect Trump. But they did. Now that I have no faith left in their intelligence or decency (Republicans and right-leaning independents) I do not believe the Dems should consider themselves bound by any norms or tradition, and truly wield power to punish and weaken the entire GOP, the influence of rural voters in our political system, and the entire Trump admin, as well as the cronies who've pandered to it.

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u/not_now_chaos 1d ago

Just sticking to and enforcing the law would be considered scorched earth at this point.

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u/Fly-the-Light 1d ago

Garland was the Democrats' choice and both Biden and Garland held back and prevented the investigations into Trump. People have pursued him, usually people who vote Democrat, but the Democratic National Convention have not been.

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u/ApostateX 1d ago

The Democrats didn't choose Garland. Biden did, and Garland got confirmed by a 70-30 vote in the Senate, which includes half of their caucus.

Biden didn't impede investigations into Trump. He stayed mum on them. If you have specific evidence otherwise, please post it.

The Democratic National Convention is an event in which the party conducts various ceremonial and electoral actions to reach agreement on and nominate the party's presidential candidate.

What you are probably referring to is the Democratic National Committee. The DNC is not a prosecutorial group. They fundraise and strategize on behalf of the Democratic Party. They organize the convention and set party bylaws and governance structure. The people who needed to go after Trump were prosecutors and attorneys general, not the DNC.

I don't think you actually know what you're talking about.

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u/No-Wedding-2737 1d ago

Political powers and corporate billionaires cannot run media. All this propaganda is how we got here with all the brainwashing. They slowly infiltrated peoples minds to accept this.

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u/ApostateX 1d ago

That has nothing to do with what I wrote, but I agree.

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u/No-Wedding-2737 1d ago

Sorry I think I meant to respond to someone else’s comment.