J6 News Catch-All

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I recognize that what I'm about to say requires a significantly more charitable view than they've earned over the last decade, and I don't expect anything to happen with haste, but I do think that Trump's lame-duck status, combined with what should be (if Democrats have half a pulse) a midterm repudiation in 2026, will create a different relationship dynamic between Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill, and not in a way that is good for the president.

President Trump’s sweeping pardons of more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, including individuals who assaulted police officers, stunned Republican lawmakers who witnessed firsthand the chaos on Capitol Hill four years ago.

Trump’s action, which defied assurances from his allies that he would examine convictions on a case-by-case basis and not grant clemency to people who committed violence, divided GOP senators and overshadowed talk about his first-100-days agenda.

GOP lawmakers are largely willing to overlook the hundreds of people who entered the Capitol illegally four years ago, which disrupted the certification of former President Biden’s victory by several hours, but pardoning people who assaulted Capitol Police, causing dozens of injuries, was hard to swallow.

“It is wrong to pardon individuals convicted of violent crime, especially when many of the victims of their violence were law enforcement officers,” Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) said in a statement.

Moran was expressing a view shared by many of his Senate GOP colleagues even though many of them are reluctant to criticize Trump publicly.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who’s up for reelection this election cycle, said people who assaulted police should serve out their sentences, breaking with other Republican senators who tried to avoid talking about the issue.

“It’s not right. People who assault police officers, if they do the crime, they should do the time,” he said.

Cassidy described himself as a “big ‘back the blue’ guy,” referring to his record of supporting law enforcement.

“Whether you’re in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Shreveport, Monroe, Lafayette, Alexandria, Lake Charles or Washington, D.C., it’s wrong to assault anybody,” he said.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said the blanket pardon of people convicted of Jan. 6-related crimes sends the wrong message to the police officers who protect lawmakers on a daily basis.

“I don’t think that the approach of a blanket pardon that includes those who caused harm, physical harm to our police officers, to others, that resulted in violence — I’m disappointed to see that. And I do fear the message that is sent to these great men and women who stood by us,” she said.
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Trump is scum. He has done a lot of awful things but pardoning these treasonous thugs is the worst yet. All this crap about illegals being dangerous and he goes and pardons people that attempted an insurrection. Just shows how racist he is and doesn't care about anyone but himself. And I wonder if his reason for doing this is so he can have people that will fight for him if needed.
 
Crazy but now I guess we know why she didn’t need a preemptive pardon?

 
superrific said:
What has to happen first, Mr. Rhodes, is for you to learn something about the law, which apparently you failed to do at Yale Law School. Prosecutors have absolute immunity.
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That guy is a moron. The reason he wears an eye patch is that he shot himself in the face cleaning his gun.
 
superrific said:
For real?
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Man who wears eye patch after shooting himself with his own gun convicted over Capitol riot​

Rhodes is among roughly 900 people charged so far in connection with the attack on the US Capitol, the heart of American democracy.​


news.sky.com

Man who wears eye patch after shooting himself with his own gun convicted over Capitol riot

Rhodes is among roughly 900 people charged so far in connection with the attack on the US Capitol, the heart of American democracy.
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apnews.com

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes' path: From Yale to jail

Oath Keepers militia group founder Stewart Rhodes was once a promising Yale Law School graduate. Rhodes was born in California and spent time in Nevada and once secured an Arizona Supreme Court clerkship.
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“… Rhodes accidentally dropped a gun and shot out his eye. He now wears an eye patch. …”

He also used his teen-aged wife’s college fund to put himself through school while demanding she work as a stripper to make money while he studied.
 
Zoo_View said:
Pretty certain either the committee chair and/or the committee by a majority vote issues subpoenas; the Democrats won’t be able to issue them.
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There used to be a minority witness rule since Watergate that allowed at least one day for the minority party to call witnesses in any hearing (though the majority can reject a witness they deem, by vote, to not be relevant to the topic). I haven’t seen the rules package for this Congress so not 100% if that is still the rule.

Also depends on rules of the committee and subcommittee which can be set so as to make it very difficult for the minority rule to operate.

EDIT to note that on quick search, I found this, which is not directly in point but related:

“… Another renewed provision mandates that the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sign off on document requests for the Executive Branch. Effectively, this allows the House majority to veto requests for information from Democratic committee members, and makes committee and staff research and oversight more partisan. …”

www.progressivecaucuscenter.org

House Rules to Know for the 119th Congress — Progressive Caucus Center

www.progressivecaucuscenter.org www.progressivecaucuscenter.org
 
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As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed from the Department of Justice’s website.

The searchable database served as an easily accessible repository of all January 6, 2021, cases prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

… “This is a huge victory for J6ers,” Brandon Straka, who was among those pardoned by Trump for his role in the Capitol riot, wrote on X, adding, “This site was one of countless weapons of harassment used by the federal government to make life impossible for its targets from J6.”

Straka credited the new Trump-appointed acting US attorney in Washington, DC, Ed Martin, for the site’s removal. Martin was an organizer with the “Stop the Steal” movement and was involved in the financing of the January 6, 2021, Trump rally on the Ellipse that occurred directly before the attack on the Capitol.

Straka wrote that he had campaigned for the site’s removal because “every time a potential employer, landlord, new social or business contact, etc, would search somebody targeted for J6 they would read a dossier on each person filled with FBI and FOJ accusations and narratives that were never proven, along with links to documents with even more damaging allegations.”

The vast majority of the government’s claims, however, were proved through the courts. About 1,250 people were convicted of crimes related to January 6.

Parts of the database were still accessible Sunday through the Internet Archive. …”
 

Trump-Appointed Prosecutor Opens Review of Justice Department’s Jan. 6 Cases​

Lawyers who worked on cases are asked to turn over files, notes and other records​


“A top Trump-appointed prosecutor has opened an internal review of the Justice Department’s decision to charge hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants with felony obstruction offenses in connection with the Capitol attack, according to people familiar with the matter.

Acting U.S. attorney Ed Martin in Washington, D.C., asked prosecutors in an email Monday to turn over files, documents, notes, emails and other information related to the cases, the people said, which included charges against some of the most violent rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Supreme Court last year ruled the department overstepped in relying upon an Enron-era obstruction statute, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, to charge defendants with obstructing the joint session of Congress that convened on Jan. 6 to certify Joe Biden’s election victory over President Trump.

Martin described the use of the obstruction charges as a failure and referred to his inquiry as a “special project.” The contents of his email were described to The Wall Street Journal.

Justice Department spokespeople had no immediate comment.

Department officials, both career employees and Biden appointees, have repeatedly insisted their Jan. 6 prosecutions weren’t politically motivated. Defendants accused of the obstruction offense also faced other charges, but the allegation was crucial in elevating the seriousness of cases and the amount of potential prison time.

Within the U.S. attorney’s office, some prosecutors viewed Martin’s inquiry as an opening salvo in the Trump administration’s stated aim of investigating the Jan. 6 investigators, the people familiar with the matter said. …”

 
nycfan said:


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As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed from the Department of Justice’s website.

The searchable database served as an easily accessible repository of all January 6, 2021, cases prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

… “This is a huge victory for J6ers,” Brandon Straka, who was among those pardoned by Trump for his role in the Capitol riot, wrote on X, adding, “This site was one of countless weapons of harassment used by the federal government to make life impossible for its targets from J6.”

Straka credited the new Trump-appointed acting US attorney in Washington, DC, Ed Martin, for the site’s removal. Martin was an organizer with the “Stop the Steal” movement and was involved in the financing of the January 6, 2021, Trump rally on the Ellipse that occurred directly before the attack on the Capitol.

Straka wrote that he had campaigned for the site’s removal because “every time a potential employer, landlord, new social or business contact, etc, would search somebody targeted for J6 they would read a dossier on each person filled with FBI and FOJ accusations and narratives that were never proven, along with links to documents with even more damaging allegations.”

The vast majority of the government’s claims, however, were proved through the courts. About 1,250 people were convicted of crimes related to January 6.

Parts of the database were still accessible Sunday through the Internet Archive. …”
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This is a God Damned disgrace
 
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