“The country is watching.”
NEW: A federal judge, a former public defender, just sentenced a Capitol misdemeanor defendant to 45 days incarceration, saying a “slap on the wrist” isn’t appropriate in many Jan. 6 cases.
huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
NEW: A federal judge, a former public defender, just sentenced a Capitol misdemeanor defendant to 45 days incarceration, saying a “slap on the wrist” isn’t appropriate in many Jan. 6 cases.
huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
“The country is watching to see what the consequences are for something that has not ever happened in the history of this country before.” huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
“The sentencing before US District Judge Tanya Chutkan marked the first time that any judge presiding over the hundreds of Jan. 6 prosecutions in Washington, DC, handed down a sentence that was harsher than what the government asked for.” @ZoeTillman: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
.@joshgerstein and @kyledcheney look at the split developing between D.C. federal judges about the handling of Jan. 6 cases. politico.com/news/2021/10/0…
McFadden, a 2016 Trump donor and former Fairfax County police officer, questioned whether the U.S. Attorney’s Office was "even-handed in its concern about riots and mobs in this city.”
A couple of notes on that.
A couple of notes on that.
1) McFadden was at DOJ when prosecutors began throwing the book at protesters who were mass kettled on a public street during Trump’s inauguration. You can’t ignore that just because they feds prosecuted it in Superior Court. huffpost.com/entry/protesti…
Last year, D.C. police tried to bring forth some garbage felony rioting cases again protesters that even the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney couldn’t get behind. huffpost.com/entry/muriel-b…
Protesting on a public street: protected by the First Amendment.
Storming the U.S. Capitol: Always unlawful.
(Also a lot of these Jan. 6 cases were handed to the feds on a silver platter because the Trump-backing rioters took zero precautions.)
Storming the U.S. Capitol: Always unlawful.
(Also a lot of these Jan. 6 cases were handed to the feds on a silver platter because the Trump-backing rioters took zero precautions.)
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1403030680271994881
This might be a more viable argument (and not so apples-to-oranges) had hundreds of unmasked Black Lives Matter supporters stormed an occupied federal building in broad daylight last summer, triggering an array of applicable criminal charges while surrounded by cameras.
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