{"id":65589,"date":"2021-03-08T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65589"},"modified":"2021-03-08T12:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T18:36:34","slug":"65589","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=65589","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

He just doesn\u2019t want us to know what he thinks about it.
\nAnd because of that, we do know.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Garland Doesn\u2019t Seem To Know Much About Anything During Questioning<\/a><\/p>\n

When the Senate confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland to be Joe Biden\u2019s pick for Attorney General kicked off,\u00a0we quickly learned<\/a> that there were a number of public policy topics that he\u2019s \u201cnever given much thought to,\u201d and didn\u2019t have any opinions to share. Those included issues of illegal immigration and whether or not transgender athletes should be able to compete in girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports. As the hearings continued, there emerged even more topics that Garland professes to not know very much about. This time the questions dealt with the Second Amendment and the limits of the President\u2019s power to infringe on those rights via the pen and the phone. When Ted Cruz pressed him on some specifics, Garland claimed to be \u201cunfamiliar\u201d with the subject and said that he \u201ccannot offer an opinion.\u201d (Free Beacon)<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden\u2019s pick for the top law enforcement post in America told the Senate that he is uninformed about important gun issues, as he faces what could be a close confirmation vote.<\/p>\n

Merrick Garland told Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) he was unfamiliar with key gun policy areas in written answers made public Wednesday night. He said he did not know enough about the topic to say whether Biden could unilaterally deny gun sales by permanently delaying background checks. He used the same explanation when asked if Biden could ban the sale of popular rifles like the AR-15\u2014something Biden promised to make law during his campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am unfamiliar with this issue and cannot offer an opinion on that question,\u201d Garland said of the unilateral AR-15 ban.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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These answers conflict with statements Garland made in February, suggesting that there were changes to gun control policy that Biden could make unilaterally without the need for new legislation from Congress. But now he\u2019s saying that he really doesn\u2019t know what, if any limits there are to the President\u2019s powers in that regard. Just as a reminder, this guy has been on the bench on one of the most influential appeals courts in the country for decades and he came very close to making it onto the Supreme Court. And he hasn\u2019t given any thought to the Second Amendment?<\/p>\n

Garland similarly dodged a question about the death penalty. He said he had \u201cdeveloped concerns\u201d over the procedure in recent years, but that was about it. We already know where Joe Biden stands on the subject and Garland will go along with whatever Biden says, so it seemed rather pointless to wiggle out of that one.<\/p>\n

What Garland is doing here seems obvious. He doesn\u2019t want to wade into any hot-button topics for fear of antagonizing the Senators from either party and giving some of them an excuse to not vote for him. He\u2019s hardly the first cabinet nominee to play these games and he won\u2019t be the last. But the guy is asking to be approved to be the chief law enforcement official in the country. If he\u2019s really \u201cnever thought about\u201d any of these questions and \u201cdoesn\u2019t have an opinion\u201d on them, how is he claiming to be qualified to do the job he\u2019s asking for? That\u2019s an awful lot of studying to have to do on day one to get up to speed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Senator Tom Cotton (R \u2013 AR) has already begun pumping the brakes on Garland\u2019s confirmation, insisting that more and better answers are needed. But it still doesn\u2019t seem like he\u2019ll be able to derail the confirmation entirely.<\/strong> Mitch McConnell\u00a0has already said<\/a>\u00a0he plans to vote to confirm him and Chuck Grassley voted for him in committee. That\u2019s really all he would need to avoid the optics of sending Kamala Harris down to break a tie to put him in at the Justice Department. But if these non-answers were to somehow convince both of them to vote no, we\u2019d be back to waiting for Joe Manchin to make up his mind. This fight may not be quite over yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He just doesn\u2019t want us to know what he thinks about it. And because of that, we do know. Garland Doesn\u2019t Seem To Know Much About Anything During Questioning When the Senate confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland to be Joe Biden\u2019s pick for Attorney General kicked off,\u00a0we quickly learned that there were a number of … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65590,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65589\/revisions\/65590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}