"In oral argument today, Justice Thomas is minimizing the severity of the 1/6 insurrection at the Capitol. Perhaps that's because his #wife was part of the conspiracy. What a disgrace that he's sitting on this case," lawyer Jeffrey Toobin wrote on X.
So the justices #scotus seem to confuse violence with noise. Planes make noise, traffic makes noise, peaceful protesters often make noise- none of these disruptions come with the intent and means to use violence to kill. When protesters show up with weapons and start murdering people that would trigger the violence standard. Like #january6. Heckling at a SOTU address is not violence unless your wittle snowflake ears start bleeding when you hear someone else’s opinion, then you’ve got a case.🩸🩸
The meaning of "obstruction" is ..... obstruction. Even United States Supreme Court justices ought to be able to get it. Reasoning this through should not take a lot of work.
January 6 rioters want the Supreme Court to let them off the hook from obstruction charge
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday from a former Pennsylvania police officer who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a case that could undermine federal charges against more than 350 rioters. 👀
The court’s decision could also have significant ramifications for former President Trump, who was charged with the same criminal offense. 😱 #SCOTUS#January6#Trump
We're not only defending our democracy against a wannabe dictator; we’re fighting the nearly unwieldy ignorance, fear, animus, and avarice of our fellow Americans who empower and embolden him. #Trump#January6#DefendDemocracy
Oath Keepers: Stewart Rhodes, the leader of republican Oath Keepers militia, was convicted of Seditious Conspiracy with one of his subordinates. They were found guilty of seeking to keep criminal defendant in power through a plot that started after the 2020 election & culminated in the mob attack on the Capitol. Roberto Minuta, Joseph Hackett, David Moerschel & Edward Vallejo, all members of the Oath Keepers, were also convicted of Seditious Conspiracy.
Proud Boys: Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean, and Zachary Rehl, members of the criminal gang Proud Boy, were found guilty of #Seditious#Conspiracy in connection with the #January6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
There is a difference between telling both sides of stories, and hedging your bets.
Some once respected news outlets have been hedging their bets when reporting on fascists.
If the fascists succeed, those same softball throwing talking heads will be replaced along with those who called out lies with hard facts.
The strings of nepotism would then be controlled by new puppeteers. Nip it in the bud.
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Here comes another puppet to replace the puppets who didn't nip it in the bud. Rumor has it, AI is eyeballing all their jobs anyway. Ronna the RNC wrecker is in the NBC house now. ???
"He wants another #January6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge."
Peter Navarro is due to report to a federal prison on Tuesday after an appeals court ruled that his appeal wasn’t likely to overturn his conviction for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the #January6 attack that Trump supporters aimed at the US Capitol in 2021. #Navarro has maintained that he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because Trump had invoked executive #privilege. Federal judge Amit Mehta, who was appointed during Barack Obama’s presidency, barred Navarro from making that argument at trial, finding that he didn’t show Trump had actually invoked it.
His emergency application to the Supreme Court comes as the court separately prepares to hear arguments on whether Trump himself has presidential #immunity from charges alleging he interfered in the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden
Navarro was the second Trump aide convicted of misdemeanor congressional contempt charges. Former Trump White House chief strategist #Steve#Bannon previously received a four-month sentence but was allowed to stay free pending appeal by federal judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by Trump.
Navarro – an economist and Trump’s trade adviser – was found guilty of #defying a #subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House committee that was investigating the January 6 attack. He also #promoted Trump’s #lies about how electoral fraudsters denied him victory against Biden and was given a four-month #prison sentence.
Trump has said one of his 1st acts if given a 2nd presidency would be to pardon the #insurrectionists who carried out the #Jan6 attack on the #UnitedStates Capitol, referring to them as “hostages” in a post on Monday night.
The ruling answered a question that an appeals court had never addressed: Can former presidents escape being held accountable by the criminal justice system for things they did while in office?
Ex-Boston K-9 officer admits assaulting Capitol Police officer with chair on #Jan6 during the #Capitol attack organized and carried out by violent republicans.
It blows my mind that it's a recorded fact that Larry Ellison sent money and people to help the January 6th coup plotters and Oracle has still not been banned from government contracting.
And that he isn't trying to assemble all of the legal talent to defend himself in Federal court.
Trump has been indicted on four counts:
1 - Conspiracy to defraud the United States
2 - Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding
3 - Obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding
4 - Conspiracy against rights
The criminal defendant led a conspiracy by "dishonesty, fraud and deceit" to overturn the legitimate results of #Election2020.
The phrase "knowingly false" appears in the indictment 33 times.
Per the House #J6 Investigation environmental lawyer, Jeffery Clark was appointed by the criminal defendant as the US Attorney General. It’s an incredibly damning fact about the leadup to #January6 insurrection —and for some reason it’s been whitewashed.
Oddly, the very same thing was done to Trump’s appointment of admitted election crimes felon Sidney Powell as “Special Counsel to the White House.”
White House call logs from Jan. 3, 2021 show Trump spoke by phone with Clark four times that day. The first three times, from around 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., the logs identify Clark as “Mr. Jeffrey Clark.” The fourth time, at around 4:17 p.m. — two hours before the fateful Oval Office meeting — they list him as “Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Clark.”
Wisconsin Lawsuits to Kick Trump Off Ballot Dismissed (urbanmilwaukee.com)
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Wisconsin ‘fake elector’ Andrew Hitt says he was tricked into signing document claiming Trump won in 2020 (thehill.com)
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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Claim of Absolute Immunity (www.nytimes.com)
The ruling answered a question that an appeals court had never addressed: Can former presidents escape being held accountable by the criminal justice system for things they did while in office?