Servants of the Mafia State Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth
SARAH KENDZIOR
NOV 16, 2023
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The threat of Trump returning to office to complete his autocratic agenda is severe. But that he is able to do it – that the US is the only country in history to allow a coup to go unpunished and a seditionist to run for president again – is due to Garland, the DOJ, and their accomplices in Congress.
It is common to hear Garland described as an institutionalist. This is true. He protects a broken and corrupt institution, the Department of Justice. He protects it instead of protecting the United States or its people. He protects it above democracy or freedom or a future. He protects it over justice itself.
The DOJ Industrial Propaganda Complex that emerges when any critique of Garland is made insists that justice is imminent. They bleat that Garland is merely “dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s”.
Which he is, in the word COMPLICIT.
Merrick Garland is a cog in the Biden Placeholder Presidency. He serves to streamline an aspiring autocracy into an entrenched one. You can read about that process here.
The Biden Placeholder Presidency was designed to exist between two terms of Trump, Mafia Grover Cleveland style. The threat of Trump returning to office to complete his autocratic agenda is severe. But that he is able to do it – that the US is the only country in history to allow a coup to go unpunished and a seditionist to run for president again – is due to Garland, the DOJ, and their accomplices in Congress.
What Justice Scalia Thought About Whether Presidents Are “Officers of the United States”
Roger Parloff Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 9:01 AM
In a 2014 concurrence and a short letter elaborating on it, Scalia indicated that the president was an “officer of the United States.”
As we approach the Feb. 8 oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court relating to whether former President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of the presidency under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, because of his alleged engagement in insurrection, one contention has emerged as Trump’s greatest legal hope: the argument that Section 3 does not apply to former President Trump because the president is not an “officer of the United States” within the meaning of the Constitution, including Section 3.
If the Supreme Court wants to definitively lift the shadow of Section 3 not just from the 2024 presidential race but also from the Jan. 6, 2025, counting and certification of electoral college votes, the likely simplest and most definitive way to do so is to adopt the argument that the President is not an “officer of the United States.”
But one relevant fact about that argument has received surprisingly little attention. Justice Antonin Scalia, according to a 2014 concurrence he authored and a short private letter he wrote explaining it, believed that the president was, indeed, an “officer of the United States” for constitutional purposes. In addition, a strong case can also be made that Founding Father Alexander Hamilton likewise believed that the president was “an officer of the United States.”