Your move, Garland.

Hey guys! Please! Lighten up on our United States Attorney General Merrick Garland. He is fully engaged in the appropriate investigative imperatives that will surly bring all criminal perpetrators to the full consequences of their chosen misdeeds. His patriotism's love of America will be honored by all who seek justice and restoration of America's Democratic ideals!

Agreed. Also, Garland, and the DOJ generally, are facing a Catch-22, IMO. Even if it's determined that prosecuting a former president is doable, the DOJ will face charges of 'partisanship', 'political bias', etc., due to the fact that a Democrat is in the White House. You needn't be omniscient to know that there would be NO prosecution with a Republican POTUS, so Garland's choices, it seems to me, are to prosecute and devil take the hindmost, or not prosecute and let a seriously dangerous cancer continue to metastasize in the body politic.

Garland should look then to Hutchinson’s example. She has done the (belated) right thing under great pressure to stay “loyal”. Her decision to “do the right thing and show up under oath and state the truth” is the road-map. Gop does not want justice. Ford took the easy way out and allowed Nixon to go unpunished setting up the downward slide of “justice for all”. Garland has enough leads to make the case. I don’t mind if he works to make it air-tight, but for America’s Sake, show us “Justi…

I was in my 20's in the Watergate days. At that time, there was pretty much unanimity that it was better for our politically torn country to just let Tricky Dick slither on home; beat his poor wife Pat with ever greater frequency (the whole thing was her fault, after all); and die disrespected and forgotten. He didn't try to stage a violent coup anything like the Orange Sadist's nearly successful attempt. Then again, he WAS responsible for the deaths of 2,000,000 Vietnamese people and 58,000…