Garland's Duty

 

“This is a massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE never

seen before in our Country. Remedy:declare the rightful

winner or, and this would be a minimal solution, declare the

2020 Election irreparably compromised and have a

new Election, immediately!” -

- Donald Trump

Merrick Garland has a job to do. He must indict and then persuade a jury to convict Donald Trump of an offense which will make him ineligible to hold public office in this country. It may be tough. It will be politically inexpedient for his party – bringing out Trump fans to vote Republican in November and removing the chance of Democrats getting to run against Trump in 2024 in what likely will be a Republican year if Trump is not the candidate. For the good of the country he needs to ignore that.

From the time of the primaries in 2016, Trump showed himself to be an arrogant, blustering, vindictive, bullying, ignoramus. His actions between December 14^th, 2020 and January 6^th, 2021 made him more than that. They made him and enemy of the republic. His order to Pence to overturn the election was an attempted coup d’etat. He has spent the last year and a half stirring up his followers with his story that he really won the election. Now he has come out with the statement above and later ones standing by it. One should assume that it is not some crazed, thoughtless rant coming from a fit of temper and not to be taken seriously, but rather something that he means, it and then think about what that means.

There is nothing in laws or the Constitution which would allow what he wants. There is no person or organization with the legal or constitutional authority to “declare” him the winner of an election he lost or to schedule an ad hoc presidential election in the middle of another president’s term. If he does not know that, then he is more profoundly ignorant than people have thought and by that alone unfit to hold any political office. If he does know it but does not care, he is a dangerous enemy of the country hoping for somebody, somehow to rise up and restore him to power in the manner of a return from Elba and even more unfit to hold political office.

He is also somebody who won the presidency once and might again. Garland needs to make that impossible.