NEW: The feds have arrested and charged two Virginia police officers who took a selfie in the U.S. Capitol during an attack that killed a Capitol Police officer. huffpost.com/entry/police-o…
Hearing underway now. Thomas Robertson has a federal public defender, Jacob Fracker has his own lawyer.
Feds are not moving for detention, but are going to request conditions of release. They plan on having the cases precede back in the District of Columbia.
Feds want the cops on GPS monitoring and an order forcing them to stay away from D.C.
Judge says they will be released on unsecured bonds. They are not allowed to have guns in their home, or travel outside the Western District of Virginia (except for D.C. court appearances).
Both are banned from public assembly, demonstrations, gatherings, and protests.
Judge cites their military and police service in denying government’s request for GPS monitoring, saying he believes they will follow his orders.
As some outlets seek to deny the broad reality of the Capitol siege and feed their audience the “Antifa” narrative they so desperately crave, @RobertMackey has this smart piece on one of the main cases they right has focused on: theintercept.com/2021/01/14/cap…
The @DailyCaller, which also didn’t indulge Trump's mass voter fraud delusions, also has a reality-based story that runs down all the Trump fans arrested and includes their reporters observations from the scene. dailycaller.com/2021/01/14/is-…
Mellissa Carone, Rudy Giuliani’s star witness, has gone down the Antifa rabbit hole, and is also talking about leaving Facebook.
More recently, a federal appeals court cited Brandenburg in striking down provisions of the Anti-Riot Act that made it illegal to "encourage" or "promote" a riot as well as speech "urging" a riot or "mere advocacy of violence."
To recap: A 1968 law pushed by a white supremacist senator with the express purpose of targeting Black activists was only curtailed more than half a century later, after it was applied to white supremacists. huffpost.com/entry/anti-rio…
.@igorbobic’s stunning image of a Trump insurrectionist in Vice President Mike Pence’s seat in the U.S. Senate makes the court docket. (h/t @joshgerstein)
Josiah Colt, the feds noted, thought he was in the House chamber.
FBI Director Chris Wray kept quiet about Donald Trump’s insane voter fraud conspiracy theories even when former Attorney General William Barr made the jump. As I reported in December: huffpost.com/entry/william-…
A bunch of Republican former federal prosecutors were warning about how dangerous these conspiracy theories were a full two months before the attack! huffpost.com/entry/trump-vo…