This Is Fine!: In this enormous dumpster fire, you can take some satisfaction in one thing. No matter how badly you do your job, you still are much more effective and successful and competent than Merrick Garland:

Duncan Black: …The Institutionalists!: ‘I will let people better equipped to interpret such things provide a fuller interpretation, but if you read the Gaetz Report <ethics.house.gov/wp-con…> starting at page 3 (as numbered) at Procedural History, it is the kind of Calvinball shit you would expect from the Trump DOJ but it was Garland: “Shortly after DOJ withdrew its deferral request and the Committee reauthorized its review, the Committee sent DOJ a request for information…. Without a response despite repeated follow up, the Committee submitted FOIA requests… which to date have not been adequately processed. The Committee continued to reach out…. On January 12, 2024, the Committee received its first correspondence from DOJ on the matter. At that time, DOJ provided no substantive response or explanation for its delay; instead, DOJ simply stated that it “do[es] not provide non-public information about law enforcement investigations that do not result in charges.” This “policy” is, however, inconsistent with DOJ’s historical conduct with respect to the Committee…. DOJ did not comply with the subpoena by the date required, but suggested it remained “committed to good-faith engagement with the Committee…. To date, DOJ has provided no meaningful evidence or information to the Committee or cited any lawful basis for its responses…. The Committee and DOJ should be partners in their shared mission of upholding the integrity of our government institutions…” <eschatonblog.com/2024/1…>