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

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Alleged Capitol Rioters Are Getting In Trouble For Guns And Other Violations After Going Home

 

oshua Pruitt’s curfew violations had stacked up in the year after he was charged with participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection and allowed to go home on strict conditions. The final straw for the judge was a string of seven violations around the holidays, with Pruitt’s GPS monitor repeatedly showing that he was not where he was supposed to be, sometimes for hours overnight.

 

US District Judge Timothy Kelly last week granted the prosecutor’s request to place Pruitt in jail as his case went forward, concluding the Tennessee man had “abused” the numerous opportunities he’d been given to come into compliance. During the hearing, Pruitt’s tearful pleas for another chance morphed into angry objections and interruptions over the judge’s repeated warnings to be quiet, and threats to complain about the judge to the press.

 

Pruitt is one of 11 people charged in connection with the attack on the US Capitol who were ordered into custody after initially being released; eight of those cases involved defendants who violated conditions of their pretrial release. Prosecutors have a pending request to put another defendant behind bars, and BuzzFeed News identified at least 16 cases where judges tightened restrictions or issued warnings after finding defendants failed to be in full compliance with the letter, or spirit, of their release conditions.

 

The vast majority of people charged in the Jan. 6 investigation have been allowed to go home while their cases are pending; there are more than 550 defendants with active cases on pretrial release. Most have stayed out of trouble. The small but steady trickle of problems that have cropped up speak to some of the broader challenges judges have faced in deciding when it’s appropriate to send someone back into the community who is accused of being part of the insurrection but isn’t charged with a specific act of violence or a more serious crime.

 

Some judges have expressed concern that evidence of a person’s enthusiastic participation in the insurrection showed, in one judge’s words, “a total disregard for the law and for officials' directives,” even if they weren’t charged with violence. Some judges have been worried about the sway that former president Donald Trump continues to have over his supporters, given his ongoing efforts to promote the lie that the election was stolen. Douglas Jensen of Iowa was returned to jail in the fall for violating a prohibition on internet access after he was caught streaming election fraud conspiracy theory content.

 

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Sixth Federal Judge Rejects Attempt to Dismiss Jan. 6 Federal Obstruction Charge, This Time Against ‘Murder the Media’ Duo

 

Two right-wing live-streamers operating under the name “Murder the Media”—who apparently photographed themselves posing in front of that chilling message scrawled on the doors of the U.S. Capitol—failed in their effort to throw out a serious federal charge carrying a possible 20-year prison sentence.

 

On Friday, the chief judge of the District of D.C. became the sixth member of her court’s bench to uphold the permissibility of the obstructing an official proceeding charge, presenting a united judicial front against a powerful prosecutorial tool against Jan. 6 defendants.

 

Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell denied a motion to dismiss from co-defendants Nicholas Ochs and Nicholas DeCarlo, whose outfit’s name became a symbol of the pro-Donald Trump mob’s antagonism toward the press.

 

One year after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Department of Justice estimated that authorities arrested and charged 10 people on allegations related to assaulting a member of the media or destroying their equipment on Jan. 6.

 

The pair also posed with so-called “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley, who has been sentenced to more than three years behind bars.

 

Ochs and DeCarlo were each charged with charged with seven separate crimes, including the federal obstruction charge and a conspiracy charge.

 

DeCarlo’s motion, in which Ochs joined, said that the obstruction charge doesn’t apply.

 

Like several defendants who came before them, DeCarlo and Ochs said the statue didn’t apply because the certification didn’t qualify as an “official proceeding” under the statute, and the statute was unconstitutionally vague.

 

Howell, similarly, like several judges before her, didn’t buy they defendants’ arguments, and said as much at Friday’s hearing.

 

“Given the extensive amount that has already been said in these written opinions, I thought it would be more expedient and certainly no more than necessary for me to issue my ruling orally rather than adding a sixth written opinion to those already excellent opinions written by my colleagues on the issues presented in the defendants’ motion to dismiss,” Howell said.

 

U.S. District Judges Dabney Friedrich and Timothy Kelly—both Trump appointees—along with Barack Obama appointees James Boasberg, Randolph Moss, and Amit Mehta have all rejected attempts from Jan. 6 defendants trying to get the obstruction charged dismissed.

 

Regarding the “official proceeding” argument, Howell, also an Obama appointee, said that the certification of the vote was in fact “very official,” as it is mandated twice in the Constitution and codified in federal law.

 

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[Larry]

4 hours ago, China said:

Alleged Capitol Rioters Are Getting In Trouble For Guns And Other Violations After Going Home

 

You were expecting impulse control?  

[China]

 

[LadySkinsFan]

9 minutes ago, China said:

 

 

That's right, they were already slow on the transition and then we heard that it slowed to nothing. ****ers

[China]

On 1/14/2022 at 7:08 PM, China said:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered to release emails, texts from around Jan. 6 Capitol attack

 

The Travis County district attorney's office in Austin informed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Thursday that he had violated the state's open record laws by refusing to release any of his communications from around last Jan. 6, when Paxton was in Washington, D.C., and appeared at the rally the preceded the Capitol siege. District Attorney José Garza (D) gave Paxton four days to "cure this violation" by turning over the documents or face a lawsuit. 

 

The Texas Public Information Act gives the public the right to government records, including those on personal devices or a public official's online accounts. Paxton has tried to claim attorney-client privilege for every email and text he sent in the days surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. The top editors of five newspapers — the Austin American-Statesman, The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle, and the San Antonio Express-News — filed a complaint with the Travis County D.A. on Jan. 4, accusing Paxton of violating the open records law.

 

The attorney general typically enforces the Public Information Act, but the law also allows the Travis County district attorney's office to handle violations filed against a state agency. The newspapers filed their complaint with Garza.

 

Bill Aleshire, an attorney and transparency expert, told the Chronicle this is the first time he's heard of the statee attorney general being accused of violating the open records law to shield his own communications. "When the public official responsible for enforcing public records laws violates those laws himself, it puts a dagger in the heart of transparency at every level in Texas," he said. "Why should other Texas officials be transparent with public information if the AG himself is not?"

 

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Texas attorney general refuses to hand over Jan. 6 records

 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has rejected a prosecutor’s demand for records of his appearance at a pro-Donald Trump rally that preceded the assault on the U.S. Capitol.

 

Last week, the Travis County district attorney’s office had set a four-day deadline for Paxton to turn over the records involving the Jan. 6, 2021, rally or face a lawsuit accusing him of violating the state open records law. But in a letter to the district attorney’s office Friday, the attorney general’s office denied any violations and rejected the office’s demands.

 

The Texas Tribune was the first to report about Paxton’s refusal. A message to the district attorney’s office seeking comment wasn’t immediately returned.

 

Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, appeared at the event in Washington, D.C., where the attorney general gave a speech touting his failed legal push to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.

 

Several news organizations have requested Paxton’s communications from around that time under the Texas Public Information Act. Last March, six news outlets jointly published a story raising questions about whether Paxton was breaking open records laws.

 

Earlier this month, top editors at five Texas newspapers — the Austin American-Statesman, The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News — filed a complaint asking the district attorney to investigate the alleged violations.

 

Paxton faces several GOP challengers in his reelection bid this year.

 

In 2020, eight of Paxton’s top deputies accused him of bribery, abuse of office and other crimes in the service of another supporter, an Austin real estate developer who employs a woman with whom the attorney general allegedly had an extra-marital affair. The FBI is investigating those allegations.

 

The attorney general has also spent most of his time in office under a separate felony indictment. He pleaded not guilty in 2015 to three state securities fraud charges but is yet to face trial.

 

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Lock this piece of **** up already.

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

I'm mainly posting this because of the lawyer lol...his expression is mind-boggling.

 

 

 

Edited January 23, 2022 by Califan007

[Corcaigh]

At 5:20 in that red jacket reminds me of this guy:

 

 

[PCS]

 

 

 

 

[EmirOfShmo]

 

 

[mistertim]

"All rise for the President of The Buffet Line"

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Top U.S. Capitol riots investigator fired from University of Virginia

 

Virginia's new Attorney General Jason Miyares has fired lawyers for two large public universities, his office said, marking more significant changes as the Republican ascends to his new job.

 

Tim Heaphy, counsel for the University of Virginia, and George Mason University counsel Brian Walther have been let go, Miyares spokesperson Victoria LaCivita told The Washington Post. School counsel within Virginia's public colleges and universities are appointed by the attorney general.

 

Heaphy, who along with UVA also confirmed his removal, worked at the school for about three years. He was on leave from the job to work as the top investigator for the U.S. House of Representatives panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, the newspaper said.

 

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[goskins10]

This guy is hilarious but also spot on. 

 

 

 

[EmirOfShmo]

 

[LadySkinsFan]

8 minutes ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

 

Another one who should be indicted.

[EmirOfShmo]

 

[Captain Wiggles]

Quote

"If You’re Innocent, Why Are You Taking the 5th Amendment?"

 

🤭

[mistertim]

5 hours ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

 

53 minutes ago, EmirOfShmo said:

 

 

 

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[NoCalMike]

Alex Jones's audience should use this exposure to see him for the grifter he is, buuuuuuuuuuuuuut, of course they won't.

[China]

D.C. Circuit Upholds Detention Order for Jan. 6 Defendant Pizzeria Owner Who Told Judge ‘I Am Not a Person’

 

The Pennsylvania pizzeria owner who was caught on video ordering police to “bring Nancy Pelosi out” to the crowd of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 has lost her bid to reverse a judge’s ruling that she be detained pending trial.

 

Pauline Bauer, 54, had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to overturn U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden’s order from September revoking her pretrial release.

 

During a contentious hearing that featured a Biblical back-and-forth between defendant and judge, McFadden told Bauer that he was reluctant to send her back into custody and acknowledged that she wasn’t a danger to society, but he had doubts about her willingness to comply with conditions of her release.

 

“I am not a person,” Bauer insisted during one court appearance while claiming to have diplomatic immunity in appearing as a self-described “friend of the court.”

 

McFadden, a Donald Trump appointee, denied Bauer’s subsequent requests to reconsider his detention order, so she took her case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

 

In her appellate brief, Bauer repeatedly made the argument that she was neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community, although those were not he exact reasons for McFadden’s detention order.

 

Bauer also said that terms of her release weren’t specific enough for her to follow, or to understand the consequences.

 

“Appellant’s arguments against detention are unavailing,” the three-judge panel said in Monday’s judgment. “Even assuming appellant’s challenges are timely and therefore properly before the court, we discern no error given appellant’s repeated insistence that the district court lacked jurisdiction over her and the thorough explanation of the conditions provided by both the district court and the magistrate judge.”

 

The judges also dismissed Bauer’s argument that McFadden erred in ordering her detention under the federal detention statute, saying that she couldn’t show “plain error” because neither the circuit court nor the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled on that specific issue.

 

Finally, the panel dismissed Bauer’s attempt to appeal a district court’s order deferring consideration of her second motion for reconsideration. The judges noted that Bauer didn’t assert any basis for the court’s jurisdiction to review the order, and didn’t mention it in her appellate brief.

 

“In any event, the order is not appealable under [federal direct appeal statutes], nor is it appealable under the collateral-order doctrine,” the judges added.

 

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[redskinss]

16 hours ago, LadySkinsFan said:

 

Another one who should be indicted.

You spelled ignited wrong.

[mistertim]

10 hours ago, NoCalMike said:

Alex Jones's audience should use this exposure to see him for the grifter he is, buuuuuuuuuuuuuut, of course they won't.

 

His followers are sort of like Trump's (which is probably one of the reasons they gravitated towards each other so much).

 

It's pretty standard conspiracy theory crap. Basically the more exposed he is as a fraud the more they believe in him because it's all fake and it just proves that he's on to something by talking about those shady people who run the world in secret. They're trying to shut him up by making all this stuff up about him.

 

9 hours ago, China said:

D.C. Circuit Upholds Detention Order for Jan. 6 Defendant Pizzeria Owner Who Told Judge ‘I Am Not a Person’

 

The Pennsylvania pizzeria owner who was caught on video ordering police to “bring Nancy Pelosi out” to the crowd of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 has lost her bid to reverse a judge’s ruling that she be detained pending trial.

 

Pauline Bauer, 54, had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to overturn U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden’s order from September revoking her pretrial release.

 

During a contentious hearing that featured a Biblical back-and-forth between defendant and judge, McFadden told Bauer that he was reluctant to send her back into custody and acknowledged that she wasn’t a danger to society, but he had doubts about her willingness to comply with conditions of her release.

 

“I am not a person,” Bauer insisted during one court appearance while claiming to have diplomatic immunity in appearing as a self-described “friend of the court.”

 

McFadden, a Donald Trump appointee, denied Bauer’s subsequent requests to reconsider his detention order, so she took her case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

 

In her appellate brief, Bauer repeatedly made the argument that she was neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community, although those were not he exact reasons for McFadden’s detention order.

 

Bauer also said that terms of her release weren’t specific enough for her to follow, or to understand the consequences.

 

“Appellant’s arguments against detention are unavailing,” the three-judge panel said in Monday’s judgment. “Even assuming appellant’s challenges are timely and therefore properly before the court, we discern no error given appellant’s repeated insistence that the district court lacked jurisdiction over her and the thorough explanation of the conditions provided by both the district court and the magistrate judge.”

 

The judges also dismissed Bauer’s argument that McFadden erred in ordering her detention under the federal detention statute, saying that she couldn’t show “plain error” because neither the circuit court nor the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled on that specific issue.

 

Finally, the panel dismissed Bauer’s attempt to appeal a district court’s order deferring consideration of her second motion for reconsideration. The judges noted that Bauer didn’t assert any basis for the court’s jurisdiction to review the order, and didn’t mention it in her appellate brief.

 

“In any event, the order is not appealable under [federal direct appeal statutes], nor is it appealable under the collateral-order doctrine,” the judges added.

 

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This is pretty common Sovereign Citizen mumbo jumbo.

 

Basically they say they're not a "person" because that name they were given and which is on file is part of the government "corporation" and is fictitious. So by acknowledging that name and themselves as that "person" they are agreeing to be part of that corporation and give up their rights. They say stuff like "I am not a person, I am not that corporate entity. I am a living breathing being".

 

It's complete lunacy. But they never learn. No matter how many times that nonsense fails in court (which is literally every single time) they just keep going with it over and over.

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[Llevron]

I know this isnt the point, but im amazed at how much restraint those cops showed.