The all-male, domestic terrorist group known as The Proud Boys is “rebuilding” after being degraded by January 6th prosecutions for crimes they committed. Come on guys, tick tock: you’ve only five months until your next coup attempt. Chop chop.
@billyjoebowers No, they kill capitol police, organize and plan the destruction of the United States and pursue violence largely in the name of white supremacy.
If only they were so ineffective as yelling about cereal and punching each other's arms.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., orders former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 for defying Jan. 6 subpoenas.
CBS News reports: "A jury found Bannon guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack."
Judge rules #SteveBannon must go to #prison by July 1 while appealing #contempt case
The former #Trump adviser is challenging a 4-month prison term for contempt of Congress after failing to appear before a House panel investigating the #Jan6, 2021, riot.
U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols agreed after a nearly hour-long hearing. “I don’t believe that the original basis for my stay of Mr. #Bannon’s sentence exists any longer. I no longer consider that his appeal raises substantial questions of #law of a kind likely to reverse his #conviction,” Nichols said, citing that panel’s ruling.
Judge rules #Bannon must go to prison by July 1 while appealing contempt case
The former #Trump adviser is challenging a four-month prison term for contempt of Congress after failing to appear before a House panel investigating #Jan6 #legal
Federal prosecutors made the request last month, arguing that no substantial #legal questions remain over #Bannon’s 2-count #conviction for refusing to provide docs or testimony to a #House cmte probing the #Jan6, 2021, attack after a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected Bannon’s appeal….
“Under these circumstances, the Court ‘shall order’ defendant ‘be detained,’ so the stay of sentence must be lifted,” Asst US Atty wrote to US Dist Judge Nichols….
I love this story about how this woman got this guy, Andrew Taake, to admit what he did on Jan 6th via the Bumble app.
"The woman's strategy was to say, 'Wow, crazy, tell me more,' on repeat until she had enough to send to the FBI.
A Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted law enforcement officers with bear spray & a metal whip — & who was arrested thanks to a woman's sting operation on the dating app Bumble — has been sentenced to just over six years in prison. #JAN6#Convicted
Pete Buttigieg PERFECTLY explains how Republicans ignore real problems to push bigoted laws, fascist, christian nationalist agendas. This Pride Month, let's remember we must push back harder than ever and fight for true equality. It's time to hold them accountable and vote them out this November!
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg PERFECTLY explains how Republicans ignore real problems to push bigoted laws, hatful fascist, christian nationalist agendas. This Pride Month, let's remember we must push back harder than ever and fight for true equality. It's time to hold them accountable and vote them out this November! #vote
Trump calls on the Supreme Court to annul his guilty verdict in election interference hush-money case
In a worrying sign for Trump,
a new ABC/IPSOS poll showed ⭐️50% of voters thought the verdict was correct,
nearly double the 27% proportion who believed it was wrong.
⭐️Nearly half of those polled, 49%, thought he should end his campaign – a step he is highly unlikely to take.
The figures were even starker among “double haters”
– voters who equally dislike Trump and president Joe Biden
– 🌟65% of whom supported the verdict, with two-thirds saying the former president should end his campaign.
Pollsters predict the cohort could be a critical component of the swing voter constituency they believe will determine the outcome in November.
By appealing to the supreme court to intervene in a case he insists is nakedly political,
Trump is reprising the legal strategy deployed in his defense against special counsel Jack Smith’s charges
relating to the 6 January 2021 mob attack on the US Capitol
in a bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election result in his favor.
The #Jan6 case is currently on hold while the nine justices consider claims by Trump’s lawyers that he had complete #immunity from prosecution for decisions taken while he was president.
But Trump's invocation of the court
– which has a six-to-three conservative majority after Trump’s judicial appointments while he was in the White House
– also comes as 💥 questions over the court's political #impartiality are at a peak💥... following revelations that a US flag was flown upside down at the home of Justice Samuel #Alito at the time of the January 6 riot.
The gesture is identical to that used by many participants in the attack as a symbol of protest against Biden’s victory.
"Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito declined Wednesday to recuse himself from two Jan.6-related cases despite calls to do so after news reports said controversial flags were flown outside his properties."