Merrick Garland just left Josh Hawley in a smoldering heap

by Aldous J Pennyfarthing

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Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 at 10:06:45am PST

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) gestures toward a crowd of supporters of President Donald Trump gathered outside the U.S. Capitol to protest the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory Jan. 6, 2021 at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Some demonstrators later breached security and stormed the Capitol. (Francis Chung/E&E News and Politico via AP Images)

I never thought to hear such snark from someone as genteel as Merrick Garland. And maybe he wasn’t trolling the poster boy of domestic terror and insurrection after all.

But, damn, it sure feels like Garland, whose path to the Supreme Court was derailed by a metric fuck-ton of Republican fucknuttery, was directing some well-deserved artillery fire at Sen. Josh Hawley this fine morning.

Asked by Josh Hawley if he supports defunding the police, Merrick Garland says he does not, citing the ...horror experienced by police officers at the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) February 22, 2021

Zing https://t.co/ElBZGgHmrk
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 22, 2021

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— Times New Ryan (@petriKSU) February 22, 2021

Ahhh, that felt pretty good, now didn’t it?

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