A while back, we cats decided we were done watching Rachel Maddow. This was before she announced that she would be scaling back her hosting duties to one night a week. We don't hate her — we just got tired of her constant repetition of points she's already made. Maybe Rhodes scholars feel the need to overexplain? Sheesh.
So we weren't watching last night when Maddow apparently was pulling her hair out about a Merrick Garland memo from May 22 — treating it like some bombshell that implied that the Justice Department would not indict Benedict Donald by the midterms. Twitter immediately began blowing up with demands for Garland to resign or be fired.
This made no sense. Garland's memo, from all appearances, is a routine reminder to DOJ staff that they should not open investigations of politicians in election seasons without getting his approval first. It cited an earlier memo from Trump AG Bill Barr, which Barr issued as a reminder to staff after James Comey had infamously violated the no-election-interference rule in 2016. Remember that?
As one of the tweeps we follow observed, "The only thing I don’t like about the Garland memo is the word 'Barr.' All the other words are fine. I actually agree the DOJ shouldn't indict people or make announcements that impact free and fair elections. I agreed with that rule when Comey did it to Hillary, and I do now."
The liberal hand-wringing that Justice "isn't doing anything" is tiresome, and Maddow has unnecessarily inflamed it. Team, we don't know what's going on inside the department for good reasons. And it's obvious from actions like the recent raid on Jeffrey Clark that they are very definitely, um, "doing things." (Besides, the outcome of the midterms will have no effect on existing DOJ investigations — and do we all understand that Trump is not on the ballot this fall?)
Can we just stop this and focus on 2022, please? We cats HISS.
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