I'm going to say it, and you can place yourself where you want on this
...your choice, not mine.
The internet is full of trolls calling for Garland to resign this morning.
The complaints took off after the exoneration by Hur, sparked by people who think it's more important to highlight the salacious things Hur included in the report and set hair on fire over them, instead of highlighting the exoneration as the president did, and move on.
Yesterday DA Bragg wrote an order delaying the hush money trial and said in as clear language as anyone can read that "the timing of the USAO's productions is the result solely of the defendant's delay."
Instead of blaming Trump for the delay, as the DA clearly did in that order, a mantra was started on the internet that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland was responsible for supposedly waiting a year to dump the documents this week.
Never mind that Bragg cited SDNY as the branch responsible for filling out discovery motions.
Never mind that the AG doesn't monitor the discovery processes of state prosecutions, or that the AG exercising that kind of heavyhanded oversight would make a lie out of any assertion that those prosecutions are completely separate from the man Trump's political rival in this election appointed.
The calls this morning for Merrick Garland to resign are just off the hook, and I've been participating in social media for long enough to know when I see deliberate propaganda.
It's not enough to defend our own personal reasons for opposing the AG by stating the obvious right to do so. it should come with some reason or logic that stands up to the fact that this man is still following through with the process of accountability which began in the Fall of 2021with the hiring of Tom Windom to investigate the Trump WH (this investigator still active in court today on the election interference charges).
When you come for the AG of a president who has NEVER said ONE WORD of complaint against him, it should be expected that you come with something more than an internet meme.
When you come at the AG who's not only responsible for prosecuting over a 1000 white supremacist, Trump-supporting Capitol rioters, but hired the man who brought two multi-felony indictments against the former president you need to come with more than absurd charges that he's a 'republican mole,' or maga or any of the other denigrating things people feel free to throw at him in front of his efforts.
And, remember... do remember. There are plenty of people who don't share our interest in justice who have been dragging President Biden's AG, the man who prosecuted them, for years now.
How in the world do people making these calls for his resignation think they are received on the other side? I mean....
Right?
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Because Justice...Matters. 
If the organization is corrupt, clean it up!
and there are always going to be shit stirrers and button pushers. Getting rid of Garland is the least of our collective worries. 
others but not Bragg is questionable. If Bragg made his request a year ago for major documents in a case involving one of the most notorious figures in the world, didn't get them within let's say 90 days, apparently failed to go to Garland about it with his hair on fire does not square. You don't get to sit on your backside waiting and then bitch later about how somebody didn't give you what you needed in a year. Doing that is classic CYA crap. The question here is also whether Bragg is doing a "catch and kill" on this.
You can count on a bunch of motions from the defense about how they had info withheld from them and claiming proof therefore of unfairness etc. More delay, more appeals. People are incorrectly saying the case is delayed 30 days. The court did not say anything yet. The prosecution offered 30 days and the defense wants 90 days.
First of all this case investigation by SDNY looks to be one of the "bury them in paperwork" moves. The facts as alleged are as follows: 1. Screwed a porn star. 2. Arranged to pay porn star to keep quiet. 3. Lied about those payments on your business records.
The idea that you need over 100,000 pages to nail that down is BS. For example if Biden were to jaywalk and the media showed a clip of it and it started an investigation you could talk to Biden, his SS detail as witnesses and the media that showed the clip in order to ascertain authenticity etc. Probably wrap that up in about 3 pages. Or you could begin to interview who was in control of the schedule that day, the people responsible for placing the crosswalks and controlling signals, the legislators who passed the laws authorizing the placement of the signals and crosswalks to determine their intent, interview the WH chef about what breakfast was served that day to determine if there was any possible ill effect from bad food, track down and interview as many witnesses who were on the street or driving by and interview their friends/families/employers/previous classmates/teachers to determine their veracity as witnesses, interview thousands of people who claim to have seen it on TV, interview thousands of people who claim they saw something else on TV, etc.
Now at the end of the jaywalking investigation you have an investigation file of 500,000 pages. Boy there must be an awful lot going on because otherwise why would we have so much paper?
The additional thing that SDNY could be making happen in dumping such a huge quantity of paper is that maybe some info about unrelated things are in there that SDNY knows about who talked about what things in the crooked businesses of this guy and what they said. Nice little "heads up" for their man. Now honestly everything I've said is really way over the top because everybody knows the SDNY and NY/NJ FBI have never engaged in crooked or partisan behavior.
In engineering we used to call it "engineering something to death". If your bosses, who had no technical background, were adamant in going in a direction you knew was not feasible then you just make the engineering work take forever and ever until the facts on the ground change and the thing can die as no longer applicable. Bury it in investigation and study when it's something you don't really want to happen. Just like in politics or many other things in life.
they are the President's appointees (as are all the other agency heads under DOJ).
The fact that the system was set up that way is to allow "independence".
A "show" that looks like this with 115,000 people -
Whenever I post an org chart, I know most eyes gloss over and dismiss it. 
I'll re-post the article excerpt that I posted upthread here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18780011
that shows what happens when an AG interferes with a U.S. Attorney's Office -
By Benjamin Weiser
Sept. 8, 2022
A book by a former top federal prosecutor offers new details about how the Justice Department under President Donald J. Trump sought to use the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan to support Mr. Trump politically and pursue his critics — even pushing the office to open a criminal investigation of former secretary of state John Kerry.
The prosecutor, Geoffrey S. Berman, was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York for two and a half years until June 2020, when Mr. Trump fired him after he refused a request to resign by Attorney General William P. Barr, who sought to replace him with an administration ally. A copy of Mr. Berman’s book, “Holding the Line,” was obtained by The New York Times before its scheduled publication Tuesday.
The book paints a picture of Justice Department officials motivated by partisan concerns in pursuing investigations or blocking them; in weighing how forthright to be in court filings; and in shopping investigations to other prosecutors’ offices when the Southern District declined to act.
The book contains accounts of how department officials tried to have allusions to Mr. Trump scrubbed from charging papers for Michael D. Cohen, his former personal lawyer, and how the attorney general later tried to have his conviction reversed. It tells of pressure to pursue Mr. Kerry, who had angered Mr. Trump by attempting to preserve the nuclear deal he had negotiated with Iran.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/nyregion/geoffrey-berman-trump-book.html
The above is illustrative of fascist behavior and DU shouldn't be trying to support it.
For "high profile" work, he might do a "sign off" but otherwise, he's not micromanaging their cases. There are layers including a Deputy AG, who manages that.
It seems that non-feds don't get that the Department Heads are pretty much "figure heads" who serve at the pleasure of the President. I worked under 6 Presidents and had a rolling cast of characters as Department Heads over my agency.
And for all we know, which apparently is something that hasn't been broached here, what if it was Garland who directed that SDNY shit or get off the pot and get stuff in?
I noticed that the Sedition Hunters have (correctly) been frustrated at the slow pace of some of the U.S. Attorney Offices completing investigations and arresting many of the J6 rally insurrectionists (because THOSE offices do the actual legwork and arrests based on where the suspect is residing, before shunting the case over to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia), and there has been a sudden uptick in those types of arrests (I noticed because I have been seeing more articles and posting OPs about them).
And to address this -
There is a difference between "managing" and "influencing" and it seems DU wants "influencing" in the manner that was described in the article I excerpted, which provided some insights from what Geoff Berman wrote in his book.
and has been a rallying cry falling on deaf ears from Civil Rights groups for many decades. And it doesn't just mean "Presidents" but a whole demographic of people who have been denied "justice" (let alone anyone not economically advantaged to achieve relief through the "due process" rules). Their cases weren't as "sexy" as prosecuting a President so few gave a shit.
But that is something that Congress needs to do. 
there is a lack of understanding the roles of the Department heads and acceptance of their fleeting presence. It's not just him, but ALL of them. THAT is the way this Executive Branch is set up.
Pushing them through the revolving door faster than they are already going, is perhaps not surprising for me to see here on DU.
Stupidity knows no bounds.
Thank you for a great and well thought out OP.
Let's do some education, shall we?
First - you do realize that when Joe Biden was inaugurated, the majority of the U.S. Attorneys were to submit their resignations. THEY are the people who actually do the prosecutions, NOT the AG.
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (Matthew Graves) was not CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE and sworn in until November 2021. "Actings" can do some things but are restricted.
But even before that, from an article published less than a week after Biden was inaugurated -
Author: Jordan Fischer
Published: 5:26 PM EST January 26, 2021
Updated: 5:26 PM EST January 26, 2021
WASHINGTON — The FBI has now opened more than 400 subject case files stemming from the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, the assistant director of the Washington field office said during a briefing Tuesday. Assistant Director in Charge Steven D’Antuono provided an update to media about the Department of Justice’s ongoing efforts to identify and charge those who participated in the Capitol riot. D’Antuono said so far the case has resulted in:
More than 200,000 social media tips from the public. 500+ grand jury subpoenas and search warrants 400+ subject case files 150+ federal cases and 50+ cases in D.C. Superior Court
D’Antuono said those cases range from misdemeanor charges all the way up to “significant federal felonies,” some of which carry a 20-year prison sentence. He also said the Department of Justice is all-hands-on-deck to pursue Capitol riot cases.
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He and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Michael Sherwin said the cases that have been filed so far are the simpler ones – and that the FBI is working on more complicated cases involving interstate conspiracies by militia groups. He also said to expect a “geometric increase” in cases involving assaults on officers as agents continue combing through the thousands of hours of footage recovered from the event – as well as the possibility of rare sedition charges.
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https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/fbi-says-sedition-investigations-could-bear-fruit-soon-400-case-files-opened-in-capitol-riot/65-b098491e-92c3-4ffb-98e3-3b0d8c9d0499
And let me add an overlay that has been completely IGNORED during all of these discussions about 2020/2021/2022. I.e., what ELSE was going on during ALL of 2021 (to date)?
Yes, a PANDEMIC. And that not only disrupted the workforce but ALSO closed many of the courts, which eventually had to move to "remote"/"closed circuit" operation.
So this was going on in the midst of the other events.
I noticed that you (or whoever created that list) not-so-cleverly omitted the dates on which those things occurred.
Let's start from the top:
The insurrection occurred on January 6, 2021.
And you carefully left this out - President Biden was INAUGURATED January 20, 2021. Which then misses that you had leftover Jeff Sessions/Bill Barr people running the department, with Jeff Rosen as "Acting AG" until that happened.
After that, Biden appointed DOJ civil servant Monty Wilkinson as "Acting AG" until Garland was sworn in.
Merrick Garland wasn't confirmed until March 2021 (highlights of the February confirmation hearings are here), where J6 was foremost in the hearings. And as noted above, the U.S. Attorney for D.C. wasn't brought in until November 2021.
The insurrection occurred on January 6, 2021. Perry's phone was seized in August 2022 . And you're impressed with that?
Mike Lindell had nothing to do with the insurrection.
What entity knew what Eastman's role was on January 6 other than ranting and raving at a (First Amendment protected) rally?
Lindell's role happened BEFORE January 6 pushing CT theories just after the election in November 2020.
He, Ghouliani, and the Kraken lawyers Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell were on a conspiracy tour to multiple locations (including here in PA in Gettysburg near the end of November 2020). In some cases, they were actually addressing members of GOP-controlled state legislatures (including some here in PA who sponsored that bullshit Gettysburg super-spreader event).
I could continue down the list but it's pretty telling, don't you think, that dates are not included?
You obviously missed the fact that there were multiple layers of things that went on BEFORE January 6, and that continued after it.
The scope of what was eventually realized to be a large "conspiracy" of seemingly unconnected events that had to be unraveled, and tied together. I.e.,
1.) Eastman was eventually found to have spearheaded the "fake electors" plots. Since ELECTIONS ARE HANDLED BY THE STATES, the "fake electors" were the responsibility OF THE STATES. There were 7 states that participated in this. Meanwhile NARA (yes THAT NARA) would have received copies of those "fake certifications" and probably did a WTF? because it was unprecedented and they set that mess aside.
2.) You also had a layer within Congress who had planned to object to the results of those 7 states (and ultimately considered objecting to 4, but due to the trashing of the Capitol, eventually settled on 2). The point being to cause confusion and doubt and try to send the decision back to the state legislatures to decide
3.) In the waning days of 45's administration, you had Jeff Clark being pushed to take over after Barr left, with the intent to do this by firing Jeff Rosen (who was Acting at the end of December 2020), and installing Clark. That move resulted in the threats of a whole layer of appointees resigning - but again, this was BEFORE Biden was inaugurated. The point of Clark was to use him to CO-OPT DOJ to support the contention that "the election was stolen" and add weight to the nonsense to convince Congress to "send the decision back to the states to decide the outcome".
Along with other Plan Bs and Cs, that were happening with some states going through multiple recounts (AZ & GA), you essentially had a convoluted mess of both federal AND state election interference.
All of this was completely unprecedented and it is fantasy to expect that anyone could have come up with any of these plots right away. THAT is something that NO ONE could have ever figured out instantly.
Half the responses in this thread HAVE said he did "nothing".
Why would he know that Hur would be a "hack"? WE might assume that he, like Weiss and Durham (remember him of the "investigating-the-Russia probe" fame who managed to have several of his cases end up in acquittals? ), were RW loons, but in the real "governing world", that is something that unfortunately can't be considered criteria.
Great post bigtree. 
