Biden DOJ’s New Attack on Free Speech Brings Major Obama-Era Lie to Light

As President Joe Biden’s lawyer common, Merrick Garland retains proving how proper Republicans had been to maintain him off the Supreme Courtroom.

Since his confirmation in March, Garland has repeatedly proven how keen he’s to make use of the Justice Division for politically pushed causes — from his handling of the fallout from the demise of George Floyd, to his opposition to voter integrity laws, to his memo Monday to the FBI to crack down on mother and father protesting the selections of their native faculty board.

If knee-jerk partisanship within the arms of a term-limited political appointee is harmful, think about the identical man in a lifetime job on the nation’s highest court docket.

Most People ought to keep in mind that Garland was the federal choose chosen in 2016 by then-President Barack Obama to fill the Supreme Courtroom seat left vacant by the premature demise of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.

That nomination was stonewalled by the Republican Senate beneath then-Majority Chief Mitch McConnell (even McConnell’s most vicious critics on the best need to acknowledge that act of political heroism for the way forward for the Republic).

In an interview Tuesday morning on “Fox & Pals,” Colorado Republican Rep. Ken Buck introduced up Garland’s previous as a federal choose to elucidate why the order to the FBI on Monday was so troubling.

“Legal professional Basic Garland was a choose, and he ought to know higher than to attempt to use the FBI for political speech. So most of the courtrooms that we go into, we see this Greek goddess of Themis who had a scale on her left hand and the sword in her proper hand, and he or she’s blindfolded,” Buck mentioned.

“And she or he’s blindfolded as a result of justice is blind. Justice is neutral — doesn’t care whether or not you’re white or black, man or lady, tall or brief. Justice shouldn’t be used to assault a bunch of individuals expressing their opinions in school board conferences, whether or not they’re in favor of important race principle or whether or not they’re against important race principle. Whether or not they’re in favor of masks or vaccines or opposed.

“That’s political speech that must be protected.”

Test it out right here. Buck’s feedback about Garland come in regards to the 3-minute mark.

That’s all true, after all. The query is whether or not Garland believes it.

As conservative commentator Dennis Prager pointed out in the course of the combat over Garland’s nomination, mainstream media shops and liberal commentators went to large lengths to color Garland because the “reasonable” form of choose People wanted on the excessive court docket, when the truth was he was a predictable liberal, prone to facet predictably with the left on main points from abortion to immigration to Second Modification rights.

Even in an period dominated by lies from the administration — “if you happen to like your physician you possibly can preserve your physician” of Obamacare — and lies promulgated by the mainstream media — the “hands up, don’t shoot” that helped launch Black Lives Matter as a motion — Garland’s alleged “centrism” was a serious assault towards verifiable reality.

As if to show it, the lawyer common, the exact same man whom luminaries at liberal shops from coast to coast — like The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times — assured the nation could be a “centrist,” has taken militantly leftists positions at each alternative.

As a substitute of a reasonable, Garland is revealing himself to be an lawyer common firmly on the facet of the progressive left, utilizing the Justice Division to file a lawsuit against Texas over its pro-life legislation, as an illustration, or overseeing the treatment of defendants in circumstances stemming from the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion. (Even a liberal publication like The Daily Beast acknowledged the federal government’s bias, albeit from a twisted perspective.)

However together with his newest transfer, Garland is displaying himself to be the form of AG solely a progressive protofascist might dream of.

He’s overtly ordering the Federal Bureau of Investigation — the FBI, for goodness’ sake — to maintain tabs on the efforts of American mother and father who don’t need their children subjected to critical race theory brainwashing, or necessities to maintain their faces and noses lined all through the college day on scientifically questionable grounds. (This isn’t only a view from the conservative facet. If New York Media’s The Intelligencer doesn’t purchase the masks argument, it’s bought holes.)

Together with his memo on Monday, Garland proved he’s all too keen to wield the powers of the federal authorities to place the efforts of oldsters anxious about their kids’s training and future on a par with home terrorism.

On the identical time, he’s a part of the administration of a president whose political celebration took the facet of precise home terrorism final 12 months when mobs tore aside American cities and Democrats cheered them on (or bailed them out).

After all, a Garland defender might make the argument that Garland the lawyer common is a distinct creature from Garland as Supreme Courtroom justice — that he’s solely fulfilling a task and he would have fulfilled duties on the excessive court docket in a different way. But it surely’s a hole level.

Garland clearly thinks he has a authorized proper to take the actions he has, which signifies that as a Supreme Courtroom justice, he’d probably approve of comparable high-handed techniques on the a part of the federal government (actually so long as it was a Democratic administration implementing them).

Each day since his inauguration in January, Joe Biden has proven he’s by no means the “centrist” that was offered to the American public by a hideously biased mainstream media in the course of the 2020 election.

Each day since he was confirmed, Merrick Garland has proven the identical about himself.

Rep. Buck was proper. Garland was a choose and ought to know higher than to provide the FBI an order just like the one he gave on Monday.

He clearly doesn’t, or he doesn’t care.

And he nearly had a lifetime seat on the USA Supreme Courtroom.