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In reply to the discussion: Garland's Decisions For 2 Investigations [View all]Fiendish Thingy
(18,820 posts)Step by step, if you please.
Remember, anytime a more aggressive AG might have prevailed in a lower court on a particular issue (immunity, executive privilege, attorney-client privilege, admissibility of evidence), that ruling would have been appealed to a higher court, and a stay issued blocking any movement on the prosecution or trial.
There would have been no end of issues litigated, and in the end, the outcome would not have been different- there would have been no trial before the election.
BTW, DOJ began a preliminary investigation of Trump before he left office in 2021, and Garland launched a formal investigation, with a dedicated team of prosecutors, in June 2021. He did encounter resistance from career staff at DOJ and FBI, but, as the abundant evidence shows, did not sit on his hands.
Why do you ignore the critical role of the courts in enabling Trump to evade justice?