# F Merrick Garland. (He won't be going after anyone) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 19, 2022, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190 "2022-07-19T06:39:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/241 "2022-08-19T04:02:21Z")
Any chance we can get Randy Rainbow a presidential medal of freedom? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/242 "2022-08-19T04:19:59Z")
It’s not accidental. They know it’s what their base _actually_ wants to do. So they throw red meat by saying the quiet part out loud, then say they were being facetious to create plausible deniability. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/243 "2022-08-19T05:34:11Z")
Personally, I doubt that Trump sees the inside of a prison cell. It’d be too difficult to give him secret service protection. I’d be okay with house arrest. With an ankle monitor. At one of his residences that doesn’t have a golf course. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/244 "2022-08-19T08:48:57Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > With an ankle monitor. > > At one of his residences that doesn’t have a golf course. Better if it has a course. Ankle monitors don’t let you go far enough outside to play golf. A course being right there but him being unable to play on it would be delightfully torturous for him. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/245 "2022-08-19T12:27:18Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > It’d be too difficult to give him secret service protection. I’d be okay with house arrest. I’ve always thought it would be most fair to give wealthy people house arrest as punishment for non-violent crimes, but they have to trade houses with someone in poverty. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/246 "2022-08-19T12:33:10Z")
House arrest wouldn’t be a practical option – he needs to be surrounded by sufficient security to discourage “rescue” attempts from Meal Team Sixpack. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/247 "2022-08-19T14:23:46Z")
Prisonise MAL. Ten foot fences, concertina wire. We know the drill. Or even better, use the same barriers that he erected along the border. That’s what I want to see. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/248 "2022-08-19T14:54:05Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Or even better, use the same barriers that he erected along the border. Mexico: “Hey, we’ll actually help pay for this wall!” ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/249 "2022-08-19T15:09:40Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Or even better, use the same barriers that he erected along the border. But wouldn’t the huge gaps between panels be a problem? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/250 "2022-08-19T15:55:33Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Mexico: “Hey, we’ll actually help pay for this wall!” 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/251 "2022-08-19T23:15:07Z")
Same drill Limbaugh used when he went too far and had to backpedal: “Hey, folks, I’m just an entertainer.” Of course, entertainers ought to be (I know I’m going out on a limb here) _entertaining._ Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/252 "2022-08-20T00:53:57Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Personally, I doubt that Trump sees the inside of a prison cell. It’d be too difficult to give him secret service protection. I’d be okay with house arrest. > > With an ankle monitor. > > At one of his residences that doesn’t have a golf course. I’d be okay with Congress enacting a law which prohibits Secret Service protection for anyone convicted of a crime against the United States or any of the several states. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > I’ve always thought it would be most fair to give wealthy people house arrest as punishment for non-violent crimes, but they have to trade houses with someone in poverty. However, I can get behind this. “You are hereby sentenced to a term of ten years of home confinement and your new address is…”. It should be a locale which is least likely to welcome him or his supporters, thus cutting down on the possibility of the below mentioned Meal Team Sixpack. > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > House arrest wouldn’t be a practical option – he needs to be surrounded by sufficient security to discourage “rescue” attempts from Meal Team Sixpack. And that security should be those already trained in securing a prison. Those would be the prison’s correctional officers, _ **not** _ the United States Secret Service. > [@enipla](#): > > Prisonise MAL. Ten foot fences, concertina wire. We know the drill. Or even better, use the same barriers that he erected along the border. That’s what I want to see. Nah. We already know those barriers don’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/253 "2022-08-20T02:34:13Z")
But Mexico _might_ be willing to pay for it then. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/254 "2022-08-20T03:08:27Z")
Maybe Mexico will pay for it if it’s up on _our_ northern border. Too close to Mexico, and Tan the Conman might slip through into Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/255 "2022-08-28T10:22:32Z")
Which of the apologists had “_boxes_ of misappropriated classified material still not enough to bring charges” ? He is never going to see a criminal court. Garland is too… proper? Chickenshit? Oldschool? to actually put cuffs on a former president. Maybe that is a good thing, but from my POV it is a failure of the US justice system. (“Above the law” indeed) One thing you can be 100% sure of, he isn’t waiting to bring charges because there is some “investigation” ongoing. MG already has all the proof he is ever going to need/get. He’s not going after Trump for realsies. Not now, not ever. That might be good (you cannot go after Trump without dealing with Barr and Rosen, creating all kinds of weirdness at the DoJ). But to claim he is going after Trump but is slowly crossing his t’s and dotting I’s is just wishful thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/256 "2022-08-28T16:48:27Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > He’s not going after Trump for realsies. Not now, not ever. That might be good (you cannot go after Trump without dealing with Barr and Rosen, creating all kinds of weirdness at the DoJ). But to claim he is going after Trump but is slowly crossing his t’s and dotting I’s is just wishful thinking. I think you completely missed where the DOJ has publicly stated that there is probable cause that Donald Trump has committed a crime. We’ve gone way past the “Garland is too chickenshit to do anything” stage. At this point you’re just digging in your heels. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/257 "2022-08-28T17:48:33Z")
Please remind me when you see Donnie do a perpwalk. I would absolutely love to congratulate you on being right. Until then I do not see what you are so confident about. Mueller provided enough evidence years ago. I don’t see the DoJ falling over themselves to do anything about that. I don’t see any grounds to believe this case is any different. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/258 "2022-08-28T18:30:24Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > Mueller provided enough evidence years ago. I don’t see the DoJ falling over themselves to do anything about that. I don’t see any grounds to believe this case is any different. He had cover of being the president. I think that extends retroactively; I don’t think the DoJ thinks they can/should go after a sitting president, including after the fact when they’re out of office for stuff they did while president. It seems pretty evident that Garland is going after him, and it’s for stuff from after he was no longer president. That’s a material difference, I think. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/259 "2022-08-28T18:33:38Z")
He will never be incarcerated or face justice in any meaningful way. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/260 "2022-08-28T19:56:51Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > Please remind me when you see Donnie do a perpwalk. I would absolutely love to congratulate you on being right. Eh, this kind of pessimism is actually pretty healthy in today’s political climate, you are either right or pleasantly surprised. But, I do think that things have moved enough that you should start bracing yourself to having some faith in humanity restored. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190.md?page=14)