Judge Randolph D. Moss today denied Matthew Klein's motion for bond and pretrial release, finding that his parents are unsuitable custodians.
Matthew's parents both advised his brother (on the right) that "braggers get caught." His mom said to "pull a Hillary and use a hammer."
"This was not an exercise of free speech but, to the contrary, an effort to quash the collective voice of the American electorate."
Judge called Proud Boy Klein’s decision to bring weapons to political rallies “disconcerting,” but didn’t rule out releasing him under strict conditions in the future.
"The difficulty for Klein right now,” the judge writes, is that "Klein’s parents are not suitable third-party custodians” because of their texts, including one telling his brother to “bleach” his phone or perhaps throw it in a lake. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Landon Copeland, caught on video brawling with cops at the Capitol, has been interrupting hearings for other Capitol defendants. His case has finally been called, and it’s not going well.
“I’M GOING TO TELL THE TRUUUUUTTTTHH,” he yells at the clerk.
It’s a conversation piece about the AG who faced down George Wallace, helped draft the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, and battled with Hoover over blackmailing MLK. Seems like an easy call to put him in the AG’s conference room.
Judge Amy B. Jackson, at hearing for Capitol defendant Karl Dresch, pointed out that his supporters were infantilizing a 41-year-old man, calling him a “young man” and a “very bright kid."
“Senator Josh Hawley is 41, and he’s not even the youngest senator there,” she says.
Judge Amy B. Jackson also pointed out that Washington Capitols Captain Alex Ovechkin is 35; Tom Brady was NFL MVP at 40; Bill Clinton was elected before he was 40; and that Martin Luther King was younger than 40 when he was killed.
The supporter who called Karl Dresch a “very bright kid” (and left out Dresch's criminal conduct in his 30s) is **checks notes** the sheriff of Houghton County, Michigan.
Judge wrote that Randolph had a "mostly law-abiding past” but engaged "in an egregious, injurious, and felonious assault on a federal law enforcement officer as part of a broader effort to disrupt the democratic process of the United States government.” documentcloud.org/documents/2069…
Randolph’s conduct, the judge wrote “shocks the conscious.” After Randolph knocked over the Capitol Police officer and caused her to hit her head on a metal stair handrail, he went on to assault more officers and left her an “unconscious heap on the ground.”
At a hearing for Capitol defendant Michael Foy (charged with attacking cops with a hockey stick) Judge Tanya Chutkan expressed concern about what she’s heard about the conditions of confinement in D.C. jail.
Judge Chutkan said she understands the government is "prosecuting a mass crime” but she’s particularly concerned about Foy’s pretrial detention because he’s the only Capitol defendant she has who doesn’t have a prior record but is being held pretrial.
In a filing late last night, Foy’s team said trial "is nowhere in sight” and Foy is being held "effectively in harsh solitary confinement” conditions that have been described as a "grave human rights abuse.” courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Really making some federal prosecutor’s pretrial detention memo pretty easy here. Beginning to suspect some of these Capitol defendants haven’t read the Muncel decision! (h/t @SandySkipper1)