Schumer and Jeffries Refuse to Back Growing Democratic Calls to Defund ICE

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48. Garland handed over a fast moving investigation to Smith who brought an indictment with more than enough time to convict

...but the Trump allies in the courts prevented it from going to trial.

Likewise, making Democratic leaders the target of this ire is seriously misleading and just false.

They don't make those decisions on their own, nor are they responsible for who voters sent them in the pathetic numbers that we saw in the last election.

People constantly set up these performative expectations for Democrats as if chattering about it on the internet was some substitute for the actual legislative realities that these Dem leaders face.

NO Democrat voted for the funding being advantaged right now. There is no legislative vehicle for Democrats to undo that funding right now.

Both leaders are working with the legislators who elected them to represent them. They aren't going to make those negotiations or decisions with the press. They just aren't. They make those decisions through the consensus of the caucus.

Voters didn't elect the leadership of those bodies of Congress; the legislators in the respective parties did that; so casting them as more consequential than the people mulling on their own votes behind them is just silliness.

Besides, who is saying they will vote for ANY republican budget resolution or initiative? What Democrat has said that?

Just as Garland had zero control over how quickly the courts dispatched the record number of frivolous appeals to every scrap of evidence or testimony sought - including the successful effort which began well before Smith came onboard to obtain the testimony of key WH officials and attorneys against privilege claims and challenges in successive courts, including the SC, packed with Trump appointees - these Democratic leaders have not faltered on ANY challenge to republicans in gaining overwhelming support from their membership in both bodies.

Whatever Truthout wants them to say will need to wait until they have Democratic votes in hand to back up their intentions. Both have said they're caucusing on these issues and more this week.

But, let's blame the prosecutors for the obstruction by the perps and their court enablers. And, by all means, let's blame the Dem leaders for the minority of members Democrats afforded them with in a binary system of elections in which the opposition is a fascist dictator leading a cult of corporatist simps. /s