Attorney General Merrick Garland has proven himself to be one of the most toxic and destructive partisans in politics. He also proves that rot has taken hold in the Democratic Party.
Garland on Sunday declared that voter ID laws are discriminatory, repeating the Democratic Party line that implies Democrats think black people aren’t smart enough to get IDs. This is despite repeated proof that voter ID laws have no negative effect on registration or turnout for any demographic group. Garland is repeating it because he buys into the same race-obsessed ideology that other delusional Democrats wailing about “voter suppression” have been pushing for years.
Worse still, Garland is running his Justice Department according to that anti-reality worldview.
“That is why one of the first things I did when I came into office was to double the size of the voting section of the civil rights division,” Garland said. “That is why we are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot.”
In other words, Garland beefed up a section of his Justice Department to go after voter ID laws that Democrats don’t like based on the myth that they are discriminatory. This isn’t a surprise either, given that Garland’s Justice Department has also considered treating pro-life activists like terrorists and that the FBI, under his Justice Department, was targeting Catholics.
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Garland’s lack of fitness to run the Justice Department is clear, but every partisan Democratic talking point he spouts and every abuse of power his Justice Department commits is proof of the rot within the Democratic Party. This is who Joe Biden, the “unity president,” picked to serve as his attorney general. In 2016, then-President Barack Obama nominated Garland for the Supreme Court as some sort of compromise candidate. Garland was portrayed as a moderate — a man above the political fray. He has proven to be anything but.
Garland’s disastrous tenure shows that either the Democratic Party’s idea of a compromise, unifying nominee is as noxiously partisan as its worst actors or that the party’s rapid left-wing lurch has overcome even the supposedly once-moderate Garland. Either way, it is an indictment of the party’s partisanship along with Garland’s character.