Under testimony to Congress he says because crimes against churches and pro life clinics happen at night his DOJ can't solve the crimes or arrest the criminals.

WTF? And many of you wanted him as a Justice?

Gawd. He's as useless and brain dead as pedo joe.

That’s so rich—to hear Ann call the AG brain dead.

Ann, do you have even an iota of self-awareness?

Apparently a lot more than he does. 'Ordinary' law enforcement routinely solves crimes no matter what time of day.

AG Garland Argues DOJ Doesn't Prosecute Many Antifa Attacks on Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Because They Happen at Night

BONGINO REPORT
AG Garland Argues DOJ Doesn't Prosecute Many Antifa Attacks on Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Because They Happen at Night
by: Roberto Wakerell-Cruz 2023-03-01 Source: The Post Millennial

Attorney General Merrick Garland had to explain before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday how those who vandalize and burn down Catholic churches and pregnancy centers can evade arrest, while abortion activists have their doors kicked in. Garland's answer was that left-wing criminals typically act at night, whereas pro-life activists are generally acting in the light of day and are easy to identify.

The Department of Justice has also not charged a single protestor under a statute that makes protesting outside of a Supreme Court justice's home illegal, and a Pennsylvania pro-life activist, Mark Houck, was been charged under federal law.

Houck was arrested during an FBI raid after being accused of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act)
Approximately 20 heavily armed FBI agents arrested the 48-year-old at his home at gunpoint on Sept. 23 and placed him in handcuffs in front of his wife and children. Houck was arrested at his home in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania in connection to an altercation with an abortion escort outside an abortion clinic in October 2021. Houck would be found not guilty of the charges in January 2023.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) asked Garland about Houck, explaining that "He's a pro-life activist and father of seven in Philadelphia. Based on the fact that he had pushed a protestor, or a Planned Parenthood escort as he was demonstrating outside an area in the Philadelphia region.

"He pushed this person after this person got in the face of his 12-year-old son and was yelling vile, insulting, demeaning implicitly threatening things. Denigrating his father, denigrating his faith, and yelling vile, sexually suggestive things to his 12-year-old son. So, he shoved him, then, before he knew it, Mr. Howe was facing FACE Act prosecution, a highly militarized group of DOJ law enforcement showed up at 7 am on Friday morning to enforce a warrant, and as Houck's wife put it, 'a SWAT team of about 25 came to my house with about 15 vehicles and started pounding on the door and had about five guns pointed at myself, my husband, and basically my kids.'

"This concerns me," Lee continued. "Mr. Houck ended up facing these charges and not surprisingly, the jury acquitted him of that. I'm wondering, it doesn't seem justifiable to me to have that overwhelming show of force or conduct like that. In the meantime, in 2022 and for the first couple of months of 2023, DOJ announced charges against 34 individuals for 'blocking access to, or vandalizing abortion clinics.' There have been over 81 reported attacks on pregnancy centers, 130 attacks on Catholic churches since the leak of the Dobbs decision, and only 2 individuals have been charged. How do you explain this disparity by reference to anything other than the politicization of what's happening there?"
Garland responded, "The FACE act applies equally to efforts to damage, blockade, clinics ... whether they are pregnancy resource centers, or whether they are an abortion center. It applies equally in both cases and we apply the law equally."

He continued to say, "I will say that you're quite right, there are many more prosecutions in respect to the blocking of the abortion centers, but that is generally because those actions are taken with photography at the time, during the daylight, and seeing the person who did it is quite easy.

"Those who are attacking the pregnancy resources centers, which is a horrid thing to do, are doing this at night in the dark. We have put full resources into this. We have put rewards out for this. The Justice Department and the FBI have made outreach to Catholic and other organizations to ask for their help in identifying the people who are doing this. We will prosecute every case against pregnancy resource centers that we can make, but these people who are doing this are clever and are doing it in secret and I'm convinced that the FBI is trying to find them with urgency."

Garland expressed a similar sentiment in a 2021 Senate hearing regarding Garland’s nomination for US Attorney General.

In regards to Antifa attacks on federal property across the country, Garland was asked by Sen. Josh Hawley, "Do you regard assaults on federal courthouses or other federal property as acts of domestic extremism, domestic terrorism?"

"Well Senator, my own definition, which is about the same as the statutory definition, is the use of violence or threats of violence in an attempt to disrupt democratic processes. So an attack on a courthouse while in operation, trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases, that plainly is domestic extremism, domestic terrorism.

"An attack simply on a government property, at night, or any other kind of circumstances is a clear crime and a serious one and should be punished. I don't know enough about the facts of the example you're talking about, but that's where I draw the line.

"Both are criminal, but one is a core attack on our Democratic institutions," Garland said.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.

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That’s so rich—to hear Ann call the AG brain dead.

Ann, do you have even an iota of self-awareness?

She's high on meth and reading Q again.

If he ain't brain dead, then what is wrong with him. Hell the cops in my little old town can solve crimes that happen after dark

Criminals operate mostly at night for a reason.

But they still get caught.

Some do, some don't. Odds are better for the crook in the dark.

Cameras are helping a lot.

I guess the rightwing protesters should be smart enough to act up at night.

Seriously, what drug was Garland taking at the time he testified? What a stupid thing to say!

By no measure did AG Garland do well during this testimony.

I am no Sen Cruz fan. However, AG Garland by trying to tap dance around the S. Ct. question just made it all the worse.

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Originally posted by wymple:
Some do, some don't. Odds are better for the crook in the dark.

Odds are better for the criminal if they are leftists.....

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Buy some measures Garland may not be stupid. By almost any measure, during the subject questioning and testimony, Garland acted stupidly.

Garland may not be a political hack, or may not wish to look like one, but particularly in this round with Cruz, he fulfilled the stereotype about as well as he could have.

Sad.

When you can't spell "incompetence" or "extraordinaire", you should be careful about accusing other people of being incompetent.

What a surprise, a new day and Ane has found a new topic to be outraged about. I can only imagine how exhausting that must be.

Merrick Garland has ALWAYS been a political judge.

Thank you McConnell/Grassley/Trump from saving the SCOTUS from that hack.

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Merrick Garland has ALWAYS been a political judge.

Thank you McConnell/Grassley/Trump from saving the SCOTUS from that hack.

Judges you disagree with a political hacks. Judges you agree with are legal geniuses.

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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Merrick Garland has ALWAYS been a political judge.

Thank you McConnell/Grassley/Trump from saving the SCOTUS from that hack.

Judges you disagree with a political hacks. Judges you agree with are legal geniuses.

OK…maybe you are correct about me.

Garland is a liberal idiot! Hows that?

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Originally posted by ledvm:

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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Merrick Garland has ALWAYS been a political judge.

Thank you McConnell/Grassley/Trump from saving the SCOTUS from that hack.

Judges you disagree with a political hacks. Judges you agree with are legal geniuses.

OK…maybe you are correct about me.

Garland is a liberal idiot! Hows that?

Liberal? Of course. Idiot? Hardly.

The OP is a classic example of you dipsticks making much ado about nothing. People like Dan Bongino feed on your prejudices and stupidity and he has to come up with something just about every day to through into the feeding trough no matter how stupid and inconsequential it is....the OP is a perfect example of it.

By definition if you are a liberal…you are an idiot.

Based on observations over the last several years getting into a debate with Senator Cruz is a good way for most folks to embarass themselves.

Politicizing law enforcement and the DOJ is wrong, correct?

This behavior indicates Garland is doing it.

If a GOP AG had said the same thing about abortion clinic bombers, I suspect the Dems would be impeaching the guy (and frankly, rightly so).

How come the left leaning here can’t see this and get rid of a clown on their side and thus gain the support of more folks for adhering to a fundamental principle?

Frankly, it doesn’t surprise me that violence against right wing groups is very low priority with the current DOJ. We have been seeing it from democrat administrations forever. Just like violence against left wing groups gets a lower priority with recent Republican ones… but I haven’t heard a repub AG do this kind of BS song and dance.

I do think there are a number of democrat voters who are getting sick of the continual ineptitude of the current administration. Are they willing to support the GOP candidate yet? I don’t think so, not with the current crop of headliners on the right.

Ladys,
ann isn't the one saying that they get away with crimes because they do them at night.

The MAGA Monkeys don't like the DOJ, because the bulk of crimes are being committed by their ilk. They still watch FOX religiously even knowing that FOX lies to them to give them a warm fuzzy feeling of smoke being blown up their asses.

All kinds of proof Trump politicized all departments of the federal government, but the MAGA Monkeys don't want to focus on that, they want to "play pretend".

They are thrilled that FOX won't report on the Dominion case. That allows them to stay in the dark, where they feel safe.

The MAGA Monkeys by definition are a circle-jerk in progress.

Garland just isn't moving fast enough.

If this is the case, then why all the leftist cry to reduce criminal penalties?

Why the angst over Biden’s switch on overruling DC about decriminalizing and reducing penalties?

I get there are some on the right who view the whole 1/6 prosecutions as theater and wrong… but those folks wouldn’t be in trouble if they had follow their mouths and just stayed home (the usual right comments about protests… stay home and vote the bastards out…)

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Originally posted by Kensco:
The MAGA Monkeys don't like the DOJ, because the bulk of crimes are being committed by their ilk. They still watch FOX religiously even knowing that FOX lies to them to give them a warm fuzzy feeling of smoke being blown up their asses.

All kinds of proof Trump politicized all departments of the federal government, but the MAGA Monkeys don't want to focus on that, they want to "play pretend".

They are thrilled that FOX won't report on the Dominion case. That allows them to stay in the dark, where they feel safe.

The MAGA Monkeys by definition are a circle-jerk in progress.

Garland just isn't moving fast enough.

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Why the angst over Biden’s switch on overruling DC about decriminalizing and reducing penalties?

No angst here, or with anyone I know.

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Originally posted by ledvm:
By definition if you are a liberal…you are an idiot.

And, only an idiot would make that sort of idiotic observation.

observation of an idiot doing idiotic things, is either amusing or simply wasting time.
defining and categorizing the observation is something done while walking away shaking your head.

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Originally posted by Lamar:
observation of an idiot doing idiotic things, is either amusing or simply wasting time.
defining and categorizing the observation is something done while walking away shaking your head.

Yeah, that's deep. And unintelligible.

The goddamn title of the op ought to tell anybody with a brain stem how stupid the post is....it's Dan Bongino looking for something to post about and a moron like Ann grabbing onto it and acting like it's important. It's Friday, got to bitch about something.

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Originally posted by ledvm:
Merrick Garland has ALWAYS been a political judge.

Thank you McConnell/Grassley/Trump from saving the SCOTUS from that hack.

They done good! And they used the "Biden rule" to do it!

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Originally posted by ledvm:
By definition if you are a liberal…you are an idiot.

Well.....uhm.......yes. Yes he is!