Ep. 623 - Merrick Garland is a HORRIBLE Attorney General
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
We're at the point now where mainstream moderate Democrats like Congressman James Clyburn are calling out Merrick Garland. Garland MAJORS in failing to meet the moment - with the attack on the Capitol, with confronting white supremacy, and with confronting police violence.
He never should've been the nominee, but the best we can hope for is that he will step down soon and pass the work on to someone with more drive and determination to take care of essential issues.
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| 0:00.0 | I was about to say that what I'm going to tell you is the elephant in the room, but it's |
| 0:05.6 | no longer even that. |
| 0:08.0 | Merrick Garland is a horrible attorney general. |
| 0:11.7 | He has three or four major priorities on his desk, and he has failed at those priorities |
| 0:18.9 | so badly. |
| 0:19.9 | It has been so ineffective that now even mainstream moderate Democrats in Congress are beginning |
| 0:27.8 | to call him out for what appears sometimes to be like his total absence. |
| 0:33.8 | He frequently appears to be MIA and says nothing and does very little about some of the |
| 0:40.3 | biggest issues facing him. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm hoping he does not try to wait out the entire four year term, but let me unpack and |
| 0:49.7 | explain what we need to be pushing him to do better. |
| 0:53.8 | This is Sean King and you're listening to... |
| 0:56.8 | Merrick Garland is a really bad attorney general. |
| 1:21.8 | Basically he's bad for the moment that we are in and the moment that we were in, like |
| 1:28.4 | he has majored in missing the moments. |
| 1:34.0 | The United States Capitol was overtaken. |
| 1:38.3 | The American President Donald Trump was deeply involved and his administration was deeply |
| 1:45.2 | involved. |
| 1:47.4 | The DOJ has so badly bungled and has waited so long over 18 months now to do anything seriously |
| 1:58.6 | credible about the major players behind it, that it has started to frustrate mainstream |
| 2:06.3 | Democratic leaders like Congressman James Clyburn, who was a moderate black Democrat from |
| 2:12.0 | South Carolina, one of the key reasons Joe Biden is president, and many others. |
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