I'm going to make a comparison here between Attorney General Merrick Garland and Judge Aileen Cannon: Garland is an experienced Judge now having the role of the nation's top prosecuting attorney, a role he filled well at the national level. Cannon is young lacks experience, and is a former appellate judge now serving as a district trial …
I'm going to make a comparison here between Attorney General Merrick Garland and Judge Aileen Cannon: Garland is an experienced Judge now having the role of the nation's top prosecuting attorney, a role he filled well at the national level. Cannon is young lacks experience, and is a former appellate judge now serving as a district trial judge. Both of these individuals may well be great people, and have experience and/or temperament to do these jobs, but each are ill-suited for their current roles.
Mr. Garland still thinks too much like a judge, and lacks the prosecutorial fire that let him successfully prosecute the Murrah Building attack. He needed to have that same prosecutorial fire to address the Insurrection of January 6, 2021 rather than the slow, methodical approach he has taken thus far. Judge Cannon has almost no trial experience, and is responsible for handling the first case ever of a former president who stole classified documents and stored some of them in a bathroom off of a common access area to a swimming pool at a golf resort. She may be giving more weight to what she has 2 previous years experience with (Appellate Judge) than what is normal for a trial judge, but that does not address her obvious bias.
Good comparison, Ally. I'm withholding judgment on Garland even though his molasses in January approach to his role is interfering badly with the US getting back on track post-TFG and post-Covid (although both are still in our air supply). I get the justice delayed is justice denied thing, and still if he nails them all firmly and finally at the end of his plod, I'll be happy. Meanwhile, whether Garland is temperamentally unsuited to be top cop, or if he's just bad at it, it's up to us to keep our democracy. No heroes coming to the rescue, just voters.
Same for Cannon - who she is in all her complexity and why she's screwing up her trial aren't important except as thought exercise. What is salient is that she is screwing it up. The difference is that we have no power to vote her out - maybe just endless postcards to the 11th Circuit to get her off the case for cause. We can deconstruct later at leisure.
Ally, you expressed so well what I’ve been thinking for months!
It’s a shame about Garland; I believe that he would have been lauded as a great Supreme Court justice. Instead, his choice to examine every case from all sides and from every possible permutation has hogtied him in a job that requires action, not deliberation.
I'm going to make a comparison here between Attorney General Merrick Garland and Judge Aileen Cannon: Garland is an experienced Judge now having the role of the nation's top prosecuting attorney, a role he filled well at the national level. Cannon is young lacks experience, and is a former appellate judge now serving as a district trial judge. Both of these individuals may well be great people, and have experience and/or temperament to do these jobs, but each are ill-suited for their current roles.
Mr. Garland still thinks too much like a judge, and lacks the prosecutorial fire that let him successfully prosecute the Murrah Building attack. He needed to have that same prosecutorial fire to address the Insurrection of January 6, 2021 rather than the slow, methodical approach he has taken thus far. Judge Cannon has almost no trial experience, and is responsible for handling the first case ever of a former president who stole classified documents and stored some of them in a bathroom off of a common access area to a swimming pool at a golf resort. She may be giving more weight to what she has 2 previous years experience with (Appellate Judge) than what is normal for a trial judge, but that does not address her obvious bias.
Good comparison, Ally. I'm withholding judgment on Garland even though his molasses in January approach to his role is interfering badly with the US getting back on track post-TFG and post-Covid (although both are still in our air supply). I get the justice delayed is justice denied thing, and still if he nails them all firmly and finally at the end of his plod, I'll be happy. Meanwhile, whether Garland is temperamentally unsuited to be top cop, or if he's just bad at it, it's up to us to keep our democracy. No heroes coming to the rescue, just voters.
Same for Cannon - who she is in all her complexity and why she's screwing up her trial aren't important except as thought exercise. What is salient is that she is screwing it up. The difference is that we have no power to vote her out - maybe just endless postcards to the 11th Circuit to get her off the case for cause. We can deconstruct later at leisure.
Ally, you expressed so well what I’ve been thinking for months!
It’s a shame about Garland; I believe that he would have been lauded as a great Supreme Court justice. Instead, his choice to examine every case from all sides and from every possible permutation has hogtied him in a job that requires action, not deliberation.