Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has launched impeachment efforts targeting a slew of officials across the Biden administration, from President Joe Biden to Attorney General Merrick Garland… and, well, they’re not working.
Though it’s perfectly feasible for even early initiatives to have far more individual members formally onboard, Greene’s impeachment push against Garland only has five cosponsors as of Tuesday, three of whom are Florida Republicans. (Thanks for nothing, Florida.) That’s a small total out of the hundreds of Republicans currently serving in the House.
In remarks Greene made in Congress in support of her various pushes for impeachment, she raised familiar — yet hollow — claims against Garland of “weaponizing” the Department of Justice. It’s funny that she would allege such a thing, since the actual reality is that many liberal observers have sometimes complained about the seemingly slow pace of justice actually catching up with Trump, despite what seems to many to be his documented violations of major federal laws!
Greene also specifically complained about interest from authorities in parents who’ve raised complaints with school boards, which is an area of public policy in which many conservatives have recently taken newly zealous interest following societal developments like the COVID-19 pandemic and moderately increasing acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals. It remains untrue, though, that there was any kind of systematic targeting of parents just for expressing their beliefs. Investigators’ interests have been in such individuals either threatening or committing violence to serve those beliefs.
“Garland has used the FBI as a personal police force for his boss, Joe Biden. The Department of Justice’s persecution of Joe Biden’s primary political adversary, Donald J. Trump, is antidemocratic,” Greene said. “Persecuting a declared candidate for President of the United States is nothing short of election interference.” Trump is the one who made his investigations have anything to do with an election, since the feds’ documents and 2020 election interference probes were already active when he then decided to officially join the 2024 race for the White House.
