No. of Recommendations: 3
The choice of Attorney General is perhaps the most important personnel choice a new president makes. He chose the milquetoast Merrick Garland rather than someone else, let's say Sally Yates, who would have pursued Trump like a bulldog.
Ah, I understand. I mean, maybe - I think Biden definitely wanted a centrist institutionalist rather than a firebrand at AG, but I don't know that he made that choice focusing on prosecuting Trump or not.
A charge of sedition could have been brought against Trump within weeks of the new administration being sworn in. It was a slam dunk case.
Yeah, no. They'd never get a seditious conspiracy conviction - Trump's actions didn't meet the statutory elements. Which is why even when they started charging Trump, no one ever brought that claim.
