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Posted By: Stilly River Sage
11-Oct-22 - 10:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: Trump Actions & Effects (NO new Trmp threads!)
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Actions and Effects
If you're a subscriber, or you haven't exhausted your four free The Atlantic articles a month, here is an article being discussed by the talking heads tonight: THE INEVITABLE INDICTMENT OF DONALD TRUMP
It’s clear to me that Merrick Garland will bring charges against Donald Trump. It’s just a matter of when.

By Franklin Foer

As an appellate judge, Merrick Garland was known for constructing narrow decisions that achieved consensus without creating extraneous controversy. As a government attorney, he was known for his zealous adherence to the letter of the law. As a person, he is a smaller-than-life figure, a dry conversationalist, studious listener, something close to the opposite of a raconteur. As a driver, his friends say, he is maddeningly slow and almost comically fastidious.

And as the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer, he is a hyper-prudential institutionalist who would like nothing more than to restore—quietly and deliberately—the Justice Department’s reputation for probity, process, and apolitical dispassion. Which is why it is so difficult for me to imagine him delighting in the choice he now faces: whether to become the first attorney general in American history to indict a former president.