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👍 Man who bragged that he 'fed' an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/jack-wade-whitton-capitol-riot-sentence-32ca23ad4b637214ae21f637de17227c…

Man who bragged that he 'fed' an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison
A Georgia business owner who repeatedly attacked law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison. Jack Wade Whitton struck an officer with a metal crutch and dragged him into the mob of Donald Trump supporters on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace. Whitton later boasted he had “fed" the officer to the crowd. The 33-year-old Whitton expressed remorse for his actions on Jan. 6 before a judge sentenced him on Thursday to…

On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.,
was attacked by a mob of supporters of then-U.S. president Donald Trump,
two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
They sought to keep Trump in power
by occupying the Capitol
and preventing a joint session of Congress counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.
The attack was ultimately unsuccessful in preventin…

He also attacked Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who suffered a concussion
Pennsylvania man seen as Jan. 6 instigator convicted on multiple counts | The Hill
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Pennsylvania man seen as Jan. 6 instigator convicted on multiple counts
Ryan Samsel, one of the individuals who prosecutors accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted Friday on multiple felony counts, along with four co-defendants. Samsel was one of the first people to confront the police on Jan. 6 outside the Capitol, with prosecutors saying…

What the hell was a Canadian doing there!?
🤣 https://press.coop/@thehill/112010843372147577

The Hill :press: (@thehill@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Man who assaulted officers with hockey stick on Jan. 6 sentenced to prison A Michigan man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for assaulting law enforcement officers with a hockey stick during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. District Judge Tanya Chutkan sentenced Michael Joseph Foy, 32, to 40 months in prison and two... #press https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4495029-man-assaulted-officerscapi-hockey-stick-on-jan-6-sentenced-to-prison/?ut…

New book:
Evaluating the Role of Media in the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol
https://www.techpolicy.press/evaluating-the-role-of-media-in-the-january-6-attack-on-the-us-capitol/
Editors: Khadijah Costle…

Evaluating the Role of Media in the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol | TechPolicy.Press
A new book from Oxford University Press examines the role of media and information in the bloody 2021 coup in Washington, DC.

'70M came to arms': Prosecutors claim first rioter inside Capitol ranted about civil war - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/jan-6-2667391367/

'70M came to arms': Prosecutors claim first rioter inside Capitol ranted about civil war
The first person to breach the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, is being accused by federal prosecutors of regurgitating false claims and conspiracy theories about Donald Trump and other politicians in the wake of the former President's 2020 election loss. Michael Sparks has been charged with ...

“Unlike the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, those who do not vote or refrain from voting do not threaten violence. Nor do they obstruct the functioning of a governmental institution.
Yet through their inaction, they too impair the political freedom of America that arises from the democratic character of its government and thus violate their elemental duty of citizenship.
We vote to preserve democracy and thus our own freedom.”

Professor Owen M. Fiss on the Importance of Voting
In Why We Vote, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law Owen M. Fiss stresses the importance of voting and examines Supreme Court cases that sought to enlarge the freedom that democracy generates, emphasizing that it's the Court's responsibility to uphold the democratic ideal of the Constitution.

Isabella DeLuca, former intern to GOP representatives #LeeZeldin and #PaulGosar, has been arrested for her participation in the #January6th

Social media influencer is charged with joining the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol
A conservative social media influencer has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and passing a stolen table out of a broken window, allowing other rioters to use it as a weapon against police. Court records unsealed on Monday show that Isabella Maria DeLuca is charged with misdemeanors, including theft of government property, disorderly conduct and entering a restricted area. She was arrested last Friday in Irvine, California. DeLuca has more than 333,000 followers on the platform formerl…

The underlings and stooges continue to be imprisoned while the crime boss roams free.
https://apnews.com/article/taylor-johnatakis-capitol-riot-sentencing-f97acd68b8860d36b212e408ac80abd4

Man who used megaphone to lead attack on police during Capitol riot gets more than 7 years in prison
A Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob’s attack on police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth on Wednesday said videos captured Taylor James Johnatakis playing a leadership role during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. The judge sentenced him to seven years and three months behind bars. Johnatakis represented himself with an attorney on standby. He has repeatedly expressed rhetoric that …

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he stands by comments he made in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol that former presidents, including Donald Trump, are
"not immune" from criminal prosecution. 
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Nobody in the USA will be able to say "wir haben es nicht gewußt".
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-jan-6-pardons-2024-campaign-2401ead35cb1402a7b289c2c99761373

Trump makes Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of White House bid
Donald Trump is making the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House. Trump opened his first rally as the presumed Republican Party presidential nominee standing in salute with a recorded chorus of Jan. 6 prisoners singing the national anthem. It's not just rewriting the violent siege of the Capitol and the effort to overturn the 2020 election. It's an attempt to normalize their behavior — and his — as the indicted Trump faces charges stemming…

Trump is not immune from prosecution in his 2020 election interference case, US appeals court says (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-capitol-riot-presidential-immunity-appeal-46c2d7fc7807cd3262764d35e47f…

Trump denied immunity in 2020 election interference case, US appeals court says
A federal appeals court panel has ruled Donald Trump can face trial on charges he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The court on Tuesday rejected the Republican ex-president’s claims that he’s immune from prosecution. It’s the second time in as many months judges have spurned Trump’s immunity arguments and said he can be prosecuted for actions undertaken while in the White House and in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The court’s decision sets the stag…

At this point Europe is caught between Putin on one side and Trump on the other side.
If Trump wins it will likely mean the end of democracy in the fledgling country after only a few short centuries of freedom.
From: @…

This story should be leading the New York Times right now, and every other US newspaper. It’s not, because they think, well, Trump’s crazy, that’s not news.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/12/trump-january-6-pardons

Some reporting.
Finally.
From: @…
https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/112123264180557895

Man caught in militia group chat arrested in #Jan6 Capitol breach compares acts to ‘1776, all over again’
https://…

Man caught in militia group chat arrested for Jan. 6 riot, called it '1776, all over again'
A man who filmed himself boasting, "We've done it! We are here!" as he entered the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was arrested.

"Supreme Court appears unlikely to allow Colorado to kick Trump off the ballot."
The central problem appears to be that section 3 of the 14th amendment would cause a "cascading" problem for the country to enforce.
Which begs the question why we continue to honor any tricky ones, like say the 2nd amendment. 🙃

Reporter Sarah D. Wire’s first-person account of the U.S. Capitol riot had me reliving the terror, disbelief and disgust that many Americans experienced on Jan. 6, 2021.
I say “many” because — impossible as it sounds — a large number of this country’s citizens do not believe what took place was an actual coup-driven attack on the seat of our nation’s democracy.
Meanwhile, a few pages away in a photo appearing in the same day’s newspaper, there he sits, the man responsible, as i…

Inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection
Three years ago, Times reporter Sarah D. Wire wrote about her experience inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now, with the aid of surveillance footage recently made available by the House and additional firsthand accounts, Wire provides a more expansive view of that day.

Nobody in the USA will be able to say "wir haben es nicht gewußt".
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-jan-6-pardons-2024-campaign-2401ead35cb1402a7b289c2c99761373

Trump makes Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of White House bid
Donald Trump is making the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House. Trump opened his first rally as the presumed Republican Party presidential nominee standing in salute with a recorded chorus of Jan. 6 prisoners singing the national anthem. It's not just rewriting the violent siege of the Capitol and the effort to overturn the 2020 election. It's an attempt to normalize their behavior — and his — as the indicted Trump faces charges stemming…

Trump calls for critic to be jailed for investigating him over Capitol attack
Trump has renewed calls for #Liz #Cheney
– his most prominent Republican critic
– to be ♦️jailed ♦️for her role in investigating his actions during the January 6 Capitol attack launched by his supporters in 2021,
a move that…

Couple who bragged they 'fought cops' on #Jan6 convicted
https://lawandc…

Jury convicts couple who bragged they 'were the first group to storm the capitol'
A couple who bragged online they "were the first group to storm the capitol" and "fought cops" during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack were convicted this week for their roles in the insurrection.

Man who bragged he 'stormed the Capitol' on Jan. 6 convicted
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/we-want-our-country-back-jan-6-rioter-who-br…

Jan. 6 rioter who bragged he'd 'be cleared' for storming Capitol is convicted
A former President Donald Trump supporter who posted to Facebook, "We want our country back," and admitted in an MSNBC interview he entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted.

On Wednesday, lawyers from the conservative group True the Vote admitted to a state judge in Georgia that they did not have evidence to back up their allegation about illegal “ballot trafficking” in the state during the 2020 election and the 2021 Senate runoffs.
And earlier this month, James O’Keefe, the former leader of Project Veritas, issued a statement after one of its sources recanted his story about fraud in Erie, Pa. “I am aware of no evidence or other allegation that election fr…

"2020 Election Lies Keep Unraveling as Courts Push for Evidence" #ELB
NYT: More than three years after a swirl of conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the originators of many of the false allegations are now being forced to … Continue reading “2020 Election Lies Keep Unraveling as Courts Push for Evidence” →

Joint opinion filed by Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson reads:
“...the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President.”
#supremecourt

Trump supporter sentenced for blindsiding Capitol officer and tossing him over a ledge
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/cowardly-a…

Judge has harsh words for Trump supporter sentenced for blindsiding U.S. Capitol officer
A Donald Trump supporter who "blind-sided" a U.S. Capitol police officer in a "football-type tackle" on Jan. 6, 2021, knocking him off a ledge learned his fate this week.

Trump supporter sentenced for blindsiding Capitol officer and tossing him over a ledge
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/cowardly-a…

Judge has harsh words for Trump supporter sentenced for blindsiding U.S. Capitol officer
A Donald Trump supporter who "blind-sided" a U.S. Capitol police officer in a "football-type tackle" on Jan. 6, 2021, knocking him off a ledge learned his fate this week.

Accused Jan. 6 rioter charged with firing gun during U.S. Capitol attack: report
John Emanuel #Banuelos was the subject of the NBC News investigation that began two years ago when photos and video surfaced of a
👉 man with a gun tucked in waistband during the riots, according to reporter Ryan Reilly.
"Last month, Jan. 6 rioter

Accused Jan. 6 rioter charged with firing gun during U.S. Capitol attack: report
An accused Jan. 6 rioter who appears to have twice fired a gun during the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol was charged Friday, according to reports and court records.John Emanuel Banuelos was the subject of the NBC News investigation that began two years ago when photos and video surfaced of a man wi...

Proud Boys appear at Trump rally, drawing condemnation from Biden
At least 10 men wearing the uniform of the Proud Boys,
a violent extremist group,
appeared outside the entrance of a rally here for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump,
prompting condemnation from President Biden’s campaign.

The men
— wearing black and yellow shirts, hats and masks identifying them as Proud Boys
— were seen walking along the line of vendors selling Trump appa…

Proud Boys appear at Trump rally, drawing condemnation from Biden
Members of the violent extremist group were calling for the release of everyone charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Trump has pledged to pardon rioters.

👍 Man who posted TikTok video on Jan. 6 is going to prison
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/petekrilldontgiveaf-man-in-trump-2020-sweatshirt-who-posted-tiktok-video-…

Man in 'Trump 2020' sweatshirt who posted TikTok video on Jan. 6 is going to prison
A man wearing a "Trump 2020" sweatshirt, a helmet, and goggles, who posted a video of himself on a scaffold at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on TikTok is going to prison.

Supreme Court to weigh if Jan. 6 rioters can be charged with obstruction
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors had to decide what charges to bring against hundreds of participants in the pro-Trump mob that disrupted the certification of a presidential election for the first time in U.S. history.

In more than 350 cases, they included a federal charge that carries a hefty 🔸20-year maximum penalty 🔸and is part of a law enacted after the exp…

Supreme Court to weigh if Jan. 6 rioters can be charged with obstruction
The justices on Tuesday will hear argument on whether prosecutors improperly stretched the law by charging hundreds with obstruction of an official proceeding.

Clarence Thomas Faces Backlash Over Jan. 6 Case Comments: 'What a Disgrace'
https://www.newsweek.com/clarence-thomas-faces-backlash-over-jan-6-case-comments-what-disgrace-1890966

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 th…

"That means at least three lawsuits brought against him in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol can advance to the next phase — a period of limited evidence-gathering related to Trump’s activities on Jan. 6, 2021 and whether they were official or political in nature."
Trump permits Jan. 6-related lawsuits against him to advance — for now - POLITICO

“It can’t happen here”
—that’s the stock phrase used by Sinclair Lewis to warn about European-style fascism creeping into U.S. politics in the 1930s,
—by Frank Zappa to mock Eisenhower-era squares panicking about counterculture freaks in the 1960s,
—and by many Americans to reassure themselves of their country’s stability ever since the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Animosity between political camps in the United States feels more vicious than at any ti…

'Civil War' Movie Review: A Nightmare Scenario of American Mayhem
The nightmare scenario is extra terrifying because of its dreamy lack of logic.

Don't dig too deep, #GOP; you might not like what you find...might be one of your own
WATCH: House GOP launches new probe of #Jan6, starting with police response to pipe bombs | PBS NewsHour

WATCH: House GOP launches new probe of Jan. 6, starting with police response to pipe bombs
House Republicans are launching a vast reinvestigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, seeking to push the blame away from Donald Trump, who has been indicted over his actions or his supporters in the mob siege trying to overturn the 2020 election.

Very soon, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., is expected to issue a ruling that could expose key pieces of discovery that some lawyers say prove Donald Trump acted in his “private” capacity on Jan. 6, 2021
— not in his official role
— when whipping up a mob of his supporters at the Ellipse and urging them to descend on the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify the 2020 election.

The Trump Docket: A window into Trump's 'private' acts on Jan. 6 may soon be opened by judge
It was a rocky week featuring significant losses for Donald Trump's many bids to dismiss his indictments or waylay longrunning civil litigation around Jan. 6.

Did Trump commit insurrection on Jan. 6?
As the Supreme Court weighs whether Donald Trump is eligible to again serve as president, the justices will confront a politically fraught and fractious question:
Did he engage in insurrection before and during the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?

The issue looms over both the case they will hear this month and the 2024 campaign.
President Biden and other critics of the Republican presidential front-runner say tha…

Did Trump commit insurrection on Jan. 6? The Supreme Court could decide.
The Supreme Court could decide if Donald Trump committed insurrection, but even experts aren’t aligned on the 14th Amendment case.

Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously sided with Donald Trump, allowing the former president to remain on the election ballot and reversing a Colorado ruling that disqualified him from returning to office because of his conduct around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge
The unanimous decision to keep Donald Trump on the ballot leaves him as the leading candidate for the GOP nomination, even as the court weighs other Trump cases.

A Washington state man who used a #megaphone to #orchestrate a mob’s #attack on #police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wedn…

Man who used megaphone to lead attack on police during Capitol riot gets more than 7 years in prison
A Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob’s attack on police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth on Wednesday said videos captured Taylor James Johnatakis playing a leadership role during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. The judge sentenced him to seven years and three months behind bars. Johnatakis represented himself with an attorney on standby. He has repeatedly expressed rhetoric that …