Marcy Wheeler doesn’t want to hear your complaints about Merrick Garland. 

She has her own. But she doesn’t want to hear yours. Not yet.

Why? Because it’s time to save democracy.

The publisher of the essential Emptywheel.net and a renowned national security and civil liberties reporter for decades, Marcy Wheeler joined us this week to unspool the “Ball of Thread” that has led us to the point where a party that is embracing fascism has almost even odds of taking over all three branches of our government.

No one follows the legal machinations of Trump’s legal mire more rigorously than Marcy. And she does it without ever losing track of the context that brought us to this point. Most importantly, she makes the case for the rationality that Trump, Putin and all their authoritarian friends are aiming to destroy.

Because this episode is so jammed packed with detail that may have been familiar to you at one point but has been lost in the flood of MAGA shit we’re forced to endure, I’ve littered the transcript with links to her site so you can dig in deeper.

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