Garland’s Gaslighting

Days after the FBI raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters that he wasn’t going to stand by and tolerate criticism of the Department of Justice and the FBI. Well, Garland has a history of standing by and doing nothing, which is why there is such outrage over his leadership.

He stood by while radical leftists made life miserable for conservative Supreme Court justices. Merrick Garland stood by while his agency refused to enforce an unambiguous law that prevents protests outside the homes of federal judges. 

He stood by and continued to refuse to enforce that law even after a wannabe assassin was caught outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

He has stood by and done nothing while dozens of churches and crisis pregnancy centers have been attacked and firebombed.

He has stood by and done nothing while record amounts of fentanyl are crossing our border and killing our people in record numbers.

He has stood by while the Biden Administration, cooperating with drug cartels and human traffickers has allowed the U.S. border to be erased before our eyes.

But when Garland chooses to act is also very revealing.

When border state governors tried to end the onslaught of illegal immigration on their own, Garland didn’t stand by then. He went into federal court to stop them.

When the Supreme Court ruled there is no federal right to abortion, Merrick Garland announced that the Justice Department would not stand by while states tried to save innocent babies from abortion. 

When Merrick Garland was nominated by Barack Obama for the Supreme Court seat of the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia, there were some in the GOP establishment at the time who suggested Garland should have been confirmed because he was “a moderate” and the best conservatives could hope for from a liberal president. 

Thankfully, his confirmation was stopped by determined conservatives in the Senate and by Donald Trump’s election in 2016.