# F Merrick Garland. (He won't be going after anyone) **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190 **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:** 1 **Showing post:** 80
### Author: ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow) #### Post date: [July 29, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190/80 "2022-07-29T20:35:34Z")
Some comments demonstrate such a staggering ignorance of both Merrick Garland the person and how the Department of Justice works, it’s not worth anyone’s time to attempt to remediate it. The answers to the ignorant questions are everywhere: On this board, in the news and these things called books. Every word written by such posters screams, “I don’t know anything about this stuff!” Personally, I’d be embarrassed to post such words. I’ve explained the answer to these questions so many times I just can’t do it again. I’ll link to one of those explanations, but that’s all I’m willing to do in the vain hope that ignorance can be lessened. For some unfathomable reason, some seem far more invested in throwing shade on Merrick Garland. The reasons they claim have no basis in reality, but hey, I guess it’s fun. Like riding a hobby horse. So many people don’t understand how huge this investigation is, or how Herculean is the task for DOJ. They’ve been on this case since literally January 7, 2021, many weeks before Garland was even sworn in. Instead of investigating one man and his administration as the Committee has done, they’ve had to investigate thousands. Not just investigate them, but come up with actual, trial-worthy evidence to convict them – a much higher standard than what the Committee needs. Here’s a link to my prior post in the original January 6th Hearings thread attempting to explain what all is involved: > [@Jan 6 Hearings Follow-Along & Commentary Thread (Starts Jun 9, 2022)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/174): > > To date, the DOJ has prosecuted over 800 participants in this far-reaching coup. In keeping with how these cases are generally prosecuted, you start at the bottom and work your way up. This is exactly what DOJ is doing. They scooped up many of the Capitol invaders and are looking for more. Then they moved on to the people that paved the way into the Capitol, the Oathkeepers and the Proud Boys. Now they’re focused on the layer above that: Peter Navarro, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Mike Flynn… The DOJ has had to do this over all 50 states and in the face of immense obstruction by Republicans, and with a withered DOJ/FBI, thanks to Trump’s and Barr’s firings and pressure campaigns against the agencies prior to their departure. So in addition to conducting the largest criminal investigation the DOJ has ever undertaken, Garland is simultaneously rebuilding these departments. Massive job. People unfamiliar with the process of criminal investigation don’t understand that to get to the point where DOJ is conducting grand jury hearings involving people like Marc Short and Greg Jacob, _they have to have already had face-to-face meetings to determine what these people are going to testify to before the grand jury_. You don’t just slam someone down in the seat and start asking questions. You have to know precisely what they’re going to say. The questions being asked focus almost entirely around what Trump was doing and saying with respect to his pressure campaign against Pence. Again, DOJ has had Mark Meadows’ and other top administration officials’ phone information since April. Long before the Committee’s hearings got underway. They haven’t been knitting booties over there. DOJ has now _confirmed_ they have an open criminal investigation of which Trump is the subject. Let’s be honest: He’s not a subject. He’s an actual target, and he has been from the outset. To believe anything else at this point is, IMHO, willfully ignorant. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-merrick-garland-he-wont-be-going-after-anyone/968190)._