Anyone else pissed at Merrick Garland?

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121. Source these claims or you're making shit up. You have no idea what history will say about AG Merrick Garland.

There is nothing to your claims. Nothing you say applies to Garland.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20382654

Leonard Leo's network of conservative organizations spent millions of dollars to block the confirmation of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016. The Judicial Crisis Network, linked to Leo, reported spending more than $7 million to prevent Garland's confirmation.

Republicans refused to confirm Garland under Obama, who formally nominated Garland to the vacant post of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Garland had more federal judicial experience than any other Supreme Court nominee in history, and was the oldest Supreme Court nominee since Lewis F. Powell Jr. in 1971. The American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary unanimously rated Garland "well-qualified" (its highest rating) to sit on the Supreme Court.

Under Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Senate's Republican majority refused to consider Garland's nomination, holding "no hearings, no votes, no action whatsoever" on the nomination. McConnell's categorical refusal to hold hearings on Garland's nomination was described by political scientists and legal scholars as unprecedented. McConnell went on to boast about stopping Garland's nomination, saying in August 2016, "one of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.'" In April 2018, McConnell said the decision not to act upon the Garland nomination was "the most consequential decision I've made in my entire public career"


A month after he was sworn in as AG, Russia on April 2021 imposed sanctions against Garland, including prohibiting him from entering Russia. This was in retaliation for U.S. expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats, a sanction imposed by the United States against Russia for its SolarWinds hack, aggression against Ukraine, and interference in the 2020 U.S. election. Garland did that.

June 2021, Garland pledged to double the department's enforcement staff for protecting the right to vote, and Garland announced a DOJ lawsuit against the state of Georgia over its newly passed restrictions on voting; the DOJ complaint said that the state targeted Black Americans in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
That same month he went after Texas for the same restrictions for Latinos in that state.

June 2021, the DOJ, through a memo issued by Deputy AG Lisa Monaco, reversed a Trump-era policy that banned federal officers and agents from using body-worn cameras;
the memo also mandated the use of body-worn cameras for federal law enforcement in certain circumstances (including when carrying out planned arrests or executing search warrants.

September 14, 2021, the DOJ announced a civil investigation into prisons in Georgia, focusing on prison violence and sexual abuse of LGBTQ prisoners by prisoners and staff.

September, 2021, the DOJ in a memo limited the use of chokeholds and carotid restraints by federal officers during arrests, prohibiting such tactics unless deadly force is authorized (i.e., unless the officer reasonably believes "that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person" ). The memo also limited the use of unannounced ("no-knock" ) entries when executing warrants.

October 13, 2021, the DOJ launched another investigation into five juvenile detention facilities in Texas for systemic physical or sexual abuse of children.

July 26, 2021, the DOJ sent letters to former DOJ officials of the Trump administration, including
Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen,
Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue,
Associate Deputy Attorney General Patrick Hovakimian,
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Byung J. "BJay" Pak,
Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Bobby L. Christine, and
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division and Civil Division Jeffrey Clark.
The letters relayed that the DOJ would not exert executive privilege over their testimony as witnesses to Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election or the 2021 United States Capitol attack,
and that they were free to provide "unrestricted testimony" and "irrespective of potential privilege" to the House Oversight Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland

Put down the haterade, dude.