The Trump Riot Aftermath (Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Proud Boys join the club)

[China]

GOP Rep. Cawthorn files lawsuit to shut down candidacy challenge based on his role in January 6 insurrection

 

Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, a staunch Donald Trump supporter who has pushed election fraud lies, has filed a lawsuit to shut down efforts by liberal activists to disqualify him from running for Congress because of his role in the January 6 insurrection.

 

Cawthorn asked a federal court on Monday to block the North Carolina State Board of Elections from hearing a recently filed challenge to his candidacy. The challenge revolves around the little-used "disqualification clause" of the US Constitution, which was ratified after the Civil War to prevent Confederate officials and those who supported "insurrection" from returning to office.

The disqualification clause of the 14th Amendment bans from future office any American elected official who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution but then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

The provision has rarely been utilized, and there are plenty of open legal questions about how it applies today. Cawthorn has denied any wrongdoing regarding January 6.

 

Liberal activists mounted the longshot challenge to Cawthorn's qualifications last month, and the matter is pending before the North Carolina State Board of Elections. Critics of the former President have said the Cawthorn challenge is a test case to see if this is a viable option to hold Trump and other Republicans accountable for inciting the US Capitol attack.

 

The activists say Cawthorn stoked violence and aided the insurrectionists. Days before the attack, the congressman said it was "time to fight." And at the January 6, 2021, rally at the Ellipse, he railed against the "cowards" in Congress who planned to certify Joe Biden's victory.

In their challenge, lawyers for the group Free Speech For People said Cawthorn essentially aided and abetted the insurrection, and was disqualified from office because he "was involved in efforts to intimidate Congress and the Vice President into rejecting valid electoral votes and subvert the essential constitutional function of an orderly and peaceful transition of power."

North Carolina law has a very low bar for these types of challenges. To trigger a review by the State Board of Elections, voters only need to show a "reasonable suspicion or belief" that a candidate is ineligible for office. At that point, the burden of proof shifts onto the candidate, who then needs to demonstrate that they're qualified, based on a "more likely than not" standard.

In his federal lawsuit, Cawthorn argued that the bar is so low that it infringes on his constitutionally protected right to run for political office. He sued the members of the state elections board and asked a federal judge to prevent them from hearing the challenge to his candidacy.

 

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[NoCalMike]

You can pretty much ALWAYS count on Trump to commit a crime, deny it for awhile, and then when information about it starts coming to light, he just goes ahead and pretty much admits it and doubles down about doing it.   He's a broken record.  No one should be shocked.  He is pulling the same routine of "if I just come out and stay I did it, the people who support me no matter what will continue to"

[88Comrade2000]

Trump plans taking power back by force; if he has to.  He’s priming his base to violently seize power in 24; should he lose again. 

Edited February 2, 2022 by Rdskns2000

[China]

 

[China]

Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Spent 6 Hours Testifying To 1/6 Committee

 

Stewart Rhodes, the founder and perhaps most prominently visible member of the Oath Keepers extremist militia group, was arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy last month, along with ten of his confederates. Now it seems he may be spilling his guts to investigators.

 

It’s certainly possible that Rhodes spent his entire session on a video call with the January 6th Committee denying everything, saying “no comment,” and pleading the Fifth Amendment. However, it would have been a lot of denials and dodges to take up the six hours that CBS Congressional correspondent Scott McFarlane reports that Rhodes’ lawyer says the defendant spent on the call.

 

 

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[mistertim]

17 hours ago, China said:

 

 

I do appreciate how professional judges almost always are when considering a motion, etc. But sometimes I really do wish they'd break character and respond to a motion with something like "Are you a ****ing moron? This is the dumbest **** I've ever heard and I've been a judge for decades. Motion denied, and defendant will now submit to a court ordered lobotomy."

[LadySkinsFan]

1 hour ago, mistertim said:

 

I do appreciate how professional judges almost always are when considering a motion, etc. But sometimes I really do wish they'd break character and respond to a motion with something like "Are you a ****ing moron? This is the dumbest **** I've ever heard and I've been a judge for decades. Motion denied, and defendant will now submit to a court ordered lobotomy."

 

Also, "NO" is a complete sentence.

[mistertim]

8 minutes ago, LadySkinsFan said:

 

Also, "NO" is a complete sentence.

 

Yeah that's a good point. It would be pretty awesome if someone filed a long (and stupid) motion and then the judge just responded with "No." 

[China]

Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Arizona GOP Chair And Her Husband’s Phone Records

 

The Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed the phone records of Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, both of whom falsely claimed in documents that they were among the battleground state’s presidential electors in 2020.

 

On Tuesday, the Wards sued the committee in federal court in Arizona in an effort to block their phone provider, T-Mobile, from sharing records with the panel.

 

The Wards’ lawsuit has been assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich, the wife of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, an ally of former President Donald Trump who is running for Senate, according to Politico.

 

The Wards’ complaint indicates that the committee subpoenaed their phone records, in addition too their company Mole Medical Services P.C, from their provider T-Mobile last month. T-Mobile said it would turn over the Wards’ records by Feb. 4, barring the Wards filing suit.

 

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[mistertim]

14 minutes ago, China said:

Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Arizona GOP Chair And Her Husband’s Phone Records

 

The Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed the phone records of Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, both of whom falsely claimed in documents that they were among the battleground state’s presidential electors in 2020.

 

On Tuesday, the Wards sued the committee in federal court in Arizona in an effort to block their phone provider, T-Mobile, from sharing records with the panel.

 

The Wards’ lawsuit has been assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich, the wife of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, an ally of former President Donald Trump who is running for Senate, according to Politico.

 

The Wards’ complaint indicates that the committee subpoenaed their phone records, in addition too their company Mole Medical Services P.C, from their provider T-Mobile last month. T-Mobile said it would turn over the Wards’ records by Feb. 4, barring the Wards filing suit.

 

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This stuff is all good to hear but I think the GOP is in full run out the clock mode on the Jan 6th committee. They're hoping they get the House back in November and then the very first thing they'll do in January is kill the commission.

 

Then all the subpoenas will go bye-bye and the legal action against people who defied them will likely become somewhat moot and they'll move to dismiss them since the commission is no longer there.

Edited February 3, 2022 by mistertim

[China]

15 minutes ago, mistertim said:

 

This stuff is all good to hear but I think the GOP is in full run out the clock mode on the Jan 6th committee. They're hoping they get the House back in November and then the very first thing they'll do in January is kill the commission.

 

Then all the subpoenas will go bye-bye and the legal action against people who defied them will likely become somewhat moot and they'll move to dismiss them since the commission is no longer there.

 

The committee's work will be done by election day.  There will be hearings starting in April and they will produce a report before election day.  All the evidence they've collected will be turned over to the DOJ for them to prosecute offenders (something the House can't do anyway).  Even if Democrats lose the majority, the Republicans won't be able to stop the DOJ for the next two and a half years.

[China]

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[EmirOfShmo]

Jordan thinks he can get off (again) by playing dumb ".,,never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had he would have dealt with it." Now that he's moved on to bigger crimes (conspiracy to overthrow an election) he is, again, trying playing dumb (I don't remember when I talked to the Orange Turd).

I'm betting he won't escape the electronic evidence and other witness testimony that he was conspiring with the planners. **** him. 

[China]

Exclusive: Newly obtained records show Trump and Jim Jordan spoke at length on morning of January 6

 

The House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection is now in possession of White House records that provide new details about a phone call Donald Trump made to Republican Rep. Jim Jordan on January 6, 2021 -- as the investigation drills down on the former President's communications that day and questions have long swirled around calls between him and lawmakers.

 

Two sources who have reviewed the call records tell CNN that Trump spoke on the phone at the White House residence with Jordan for 10 minutes on the morning of January 6. That afternoon, Jordan took to the House floor to object to the certification of President Joe Biden's Electoral College win, and pro-Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol.

A key focus of the committee's investigation has been on the runup to the insurrection and the myriad ways Trump and his allies, including those in Congress, tried to overturn the election results. The new details about the morning phone call come as the committee is debating whether to move forward with a subpoena for Jordan after he refused to voluntarily appear for an interview.

Since Jordan acknowledged last summer that he spoke to Trump on the phone that day, the Ohio Republican and Trump loyalist has waived off questions about it or been inconsistent in his answers.

When asked on Friday about the White House records, Jordan told CNN that he had multiple calls with Trump on January 6 but could only confirm that he spoke with Trump after he left the House floor and did not remember whether they spoke that morning.

"I talked to the President a number of times that day, but I don't remember the times," Jordan said.

A spokeswoman for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

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[China]

 

[Captain Wiggles]

Killing cops and attempting to hang the vice president is now legitimate political discourse? Weird stance for the law and order crowd to take.

 

[Larry]

Hey, guys.  Don't jump to conclusions.  Just because Gym Jordan spent 10 minutes on the phone with the POTUS himself (and "can't remember" whether they spoke at all), doesn't mean they were conspiring in the violent overthrow of democracy and the installation of a dictator.  

 

They might have been conspiring on the non-violent overthrow of democracy and the installation of a dictator.  A plan which I'm certain Gym Jordan "can't remember" ever hearing about, either.  But which he actually executed the first part of his part in the plan that he doesn't remember.  

[China]

 

[China]

REPORT: GOP Rep Could Face Serious Prison Time After New Docs Reveal His Role In Fake Electors Plot

 

“You f**king did this!”

 

Liz Cheney to Jim Jordan on January 6th.

 

We always thought the “you” was personal to Jordan and almost surely was. But the fact that Cheney “knew” it was Jordan (And Trump mentioned Jim Jordan as one of the “strong” ones in his incitement speech on the Mall) meant there was some open knowledge within that Republican GOP as to plans for that day. (“It’s 1776!”)

 

The evidence now continues to mount that it was “known,” that there was a plan, that many were involved. It appears to us that Wisconsin Representative Scott Fitzgerald participated, perhaps even organized, the Wisconsin portion of the plan. 

 

The wealthy white man representing the wealthy white suburbs, that’s Scott Fitzgerald for you. And here is an email, obtained through a public records request, that suggests that Fitzgerald had knowledge of the plan:

 

 

This is critical stuff on several levels.

 

 

First of all, the entire matter – the January 6th “matter,” went to an entirely different level last night when Trump, speaking for the first time since the SCOTUS said he had no executive privilege, called for the biggest demonstrations ever if prosecutors do anything “illegal.”

 

Second, Trump’s threat (which is what it was) puts the onus on the committee to get as much evidence out to the public, from people as high up as possible. It must be as obvious as they can possibly make it, knowing that at least 33% of the country either won’t be convinced or will not care.

 

Third, with each rung of the ladder, one gets closer and closer to those that organized the matter… Jim Jordan, “You f**king did this!”

 

We bet he did it in conjunction with Mark Meadows and perhaps Giuliani. Once one is within Meadows office or talking to Giuliani, there is no conceivable way (in our opinion) that either of them did anything of which Trump didn’t know and bless.

 

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[China]

Capitol Siege Defendant Pleads Guilty, Tells Federal Judge He Wasn’t in the ‘Proud Boys’ Despite Wearing the Group’s Clothing

 

A New Jersey man whose coworkers alerted the FBI to his participation in the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.

 

Lawrence Earl Stackhouse III, 34, was apparently done in by his own actions: according to prosecutors, Stackhouse had taken Jan. 5 and 6 off from work to travel to Washington.

 

According to one witness, when Stackhouse returned, it was “common knowledge” that he had taken cellphone video while inside the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.

 

Stackhouse is one of scores of Donald Trump supporters who overran the police and swarmed the Capitol building that day in what authorities have broadly described as an attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.

 

At Friday’s plea agreement hearing before Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, Stackhouse admitted that at the time he entered the Capitol building, he did not have permission to be there. He also admitted to entering the Rotunda and later walking down a hallway near the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

 

Stackhouse acknowledged that he attended the former president’s so-called “Stop the Steal” rally with two people, and on Jan. 7, he sent one of them text messages that said “don’t regret one thing” and “**** the government.”

 

According to prosecutors, Stackhouse’s ardent support for Trump had previously gotten him into trouble at work.

 

According to one witness interview, Stackhouse had been reprimanded for “displaying political signs and attires in support of former President Trump, which violated their employer’s policies.”

 

The criminal complaint against Stackhouse doesn’t identify his employer.

 

A witness told the FBI that Stackhouse had been identified by his employer as being associated with “hate groups” from his social media. 

 

At Friday’s hearing, it was revealed that Stackhouse wore a shirt to the Capitol bearing the insignia of the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group whose members and leaders have at times espoused white nationalist views.

 

Despite this, Stackhouse denied any connection to the group.

 

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[Ball Security]

16 hours ago, China said:

REPORT: GOP Rep Could Face Serious Prison Time After New Docs Reveal His Role In Fake Electors Plot

 

“You f**king did this!”

 

Liz Cheney to Jim Jordan on January 6th.

 

We always thought the “you” was personal to Jordan and almost surely was. But the fact that Cheney “knew” it was Jordan (And Trump mentioned Jim Jordan as one of the “strong” ones in his incitement speech on the Mall) meant there was some open knowledge within that Republican GOP as to plans for that day. (“It’s 1776!”)

 

The evidence now continues to mount that it was “known,” that there was a plan, that many were involved. It appears to us that Wisconsin Representative Scott Fitzgerald participated, perhaps even organized, the Wisconsin portion of the plan. 

 

The wealthy white man representing the wealthy white suburbs, that’s Scott Fitzgerald for you. And here is an email, obtained through a public records request, that suggests that Fitzgerald had knowledge of the plan:

 

 

This is critical stuff on several levels.

 

 

First of all, the entire matter – the January 6th “matter,” went to an entirely different level last night when Trump, speaking for the first time since the SCOTUS said he had no executive privilege, called for the biggest demonstrations ever if prosecutors do anything “illegal.”

 

Second, Trump’s threat (which is what it was) puts the onus on the committee to get as much evidence out to the public, from people as high up as possible. It must be as obvious as they can possibly make it, knowing that at least 33% of the country either won’t be convinced or will not care.

 

Third, with each rung of the ladder, one gets closer and closer to those that organized the matter… Jim Jordan, “You f**king did this!”

 

We bet he did it in conjunction with Mark Meadows and perhaps Giuliani. Once one is within Meadows office or talking to Giuliani, there is no conceivable way (in our opinion) that either of them did anything of which Trump didn’t know and bless.

 

Click on the link for the rest

No doubt a guy name Scott Fitzgerald represents wealthy suburbs.

[China]

 

[Dan T.]

 

[The Evil Genius]

11 hours ago, China said:

 

 

One of the more underreported stories is how many times the Donald violated the Presidential Records Act. An act that was created to keep Nixon from destroying the tapes.