Merrick Garland

President Biden’s worst decision since assuming the presidency has been the appointment of Merrick Garland as Attorney General.

His dithering is causing much apprehension among Americans, concerned that his department’s delays prosecuting former President Donald Trump may not only be an injustice but could as well allow Trump to regain office next January.

Although the former president incited the worst insurrection in the U.S. since the Civil War, he remains free to pursue his agenda while almost all others who were involved have been tried and are serving prison sentences.

With 91 felony charges against Trump, one wonders why Garland has hamstrung his Department of Justice and allowed preparations to drag on to the point at which it is almost too late to try Trump before the November presidential election.

Quoted in Newsweek, Mary Trump, niece and frequent critic of the former president, posted on X, formerly Twitter “It really does not feel like Merrick Garland and his DOJ are on the side of the American people".

Richard Painter, a former ethics lawyer for former President George W. Bush, added: "So, Justice Department refused to prosecute Trump for this scheme because he was president, although DOJ did prosecute his lawyer Michael Cohen. Now we learn that DOJ sat on documents they should have turned over to Manhattan DA Bragg long ago. Sad."

Former Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus also wrote: "A group of Democratic lawmakers, including leadership, need to tell Merrick Garland to resign or they will publicly call for his dismissal. They need to make it clear to him that they will not let him embarrass the President by forcing him to fire him."

Lindy Li, a political commentator and Democratic National Committee member, has said "Merrick Garland waited 2 years to appoint Special Counsel Jack Smith. He has slow-walked prosecuting Trump, allowing him to evade justice.

"Who does he work for because he sure as hell ain't working for the American people."

The Department of Justice sat on over 30,000 documents relevant to the Trump case for two years, thus contributing to the delay in trying the former president.

Still, Donald Trump remains free, threatening the lives of judges, prosecutors, jurors and witnesses. He continues to threaten the United States with a “bloodbath” should he not be reelected.

Any other individual uttering similar death threats and inciting bloody insurrection would already be under arrest. Yet, Trump continues to roam free to continue his campaign of fear and hatred.

There are other glaring ommissions on the part of Garland’s Department of Justice.

Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh are all known to have received large financial gifts from key Republican financiers, including many who have cases pending before the Court. In addition, Thomas’s wife Ginny was one of the prime backers of Trump’s attempted insurrection of January 6, 2021.

Yet there are no investigations underway despite the high profie nature of those involved. Or, perhaps, because of their high profile.

Why?

To Garland’s many detractors, the reason is the Attorney General’s incompetence.

To his few supporters, Garland has taken to heart President Biden’s early instruction to avoid politicizing the Department of Justice.

However, if this is the case, Garland has shown poor judgment by following this instruction to the point of paralysis.

In addition, both Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner enriched themselves beyong belief while employees at the White House, including a $2 billion payment to Kushner by the Government of Saudi Arabiaa few weeks after Trump left office and over $600 million in patents from the Chinese government for Ivanka during her time as a White House “advisor”.

Yet, there hasn’t been a peep from the Department of Justice.

Whatever the case, the American public has the perception that there are two forms of justice at play here – one for the rich and powerful, and another for the rest of society.

And that could cost President Biden in his bid for reelection in November.

As the old saying goes, justice delayed is justice denied.

In Garland’s case, it is more like justice ignored.