Dale Shalvey, the farmer who mistakenly thought that @tedcruz was going to sell Trump supporters out because he didn’t understand how the Senate / the electoral college process works, is in court along with his wife, Tara Stottlemyer.
Judge Timothy J. Kelly says he is “very skeptical” of Tara Stottlemyer’s request to possess a gun to kill raccoons going after her chickens.
Pre-trial services does not want conditions changed.
Judge Timothy Kelly has denied the motion without prejudice, meaning they could try again if they come forward with a “more concrete” proposal. Kelly still not completely convinced a gun is "truly necessary."
Judge Kelly: It’s not totally clear to me whether she’s fully tried these other methods… She’s left one job and tried to pivot to another, and is basing this motion on bad things that might happen.
Judge Kelly: She made the decision to quit the other job and to try to make this other means of earning a living work, and she’s going to have to establish more of a track record that’s it’s really not going to work without a firearm.
DOJ: There may be another superseding indictment to add another defendant.
Jan. 6 defendant John Lolos is going off on a rant about voter fraud during his sentencing.
John Lolos: “I see a window, it’s broken, people are going inside, yeah, I went inside, your honor.”
Lolos is going on a pretty batty rant, now claiming that “the smallest police officer I’ve ever seen in my whole life” was encouraging him to come into the Capitol.
He dismisses his agreed upon statement of offense: “We can stick to that version if we want to, your honor."
NEW: Feds say Indiana’s Mark Mazza brought a gun to the Capitol on Jan. 6, lost it while he was battling cops, and then falsely reported his gun was stolen.
Seeing a claim out there that the DOJ “designated Jacob Chansley a domestic terrorist.” Big, if true. It’s not. While DOJ accurately referred to Jan. 6 as an act of domestic terrorism (using boilerplate language), they did not seek a terrorism sentencing enhancement.
Here’s the language in the government’s memo in the Paul Hodgkins case from July versus their memo in the Jacob Chansley case this month:
“The department is very judicious about deploying the term [domestic terrorism] in the first instance, and typically will only do so in the backend of litigation when the facts and circumstances are going to be clear.” huffpost.com/entry/white-te…
Judge Nichols seemed to want to keep Mish under supervision for a longer period of time given Mish’s background, but was concerned that locked Mish up for 30 days would preclude him from giving probation as well.
Former CEO Brad Rukstales is objecting to the release of videos of what he did inside the Capitol building, with his lawyer arguing "further publication of media, video, and images related to his case could deleteriously impact his well-being.” huffpost.com/entry/bradley-…
"The publication of the video clips only serve to harm Mr. Rukstales’ interests as a private citizen who has already taken responsibility and been held accountable for his conduct.”
"Mr. Rukstales accepted responsibility for his actions, and the public record in this case is replete with detailed descriptions from both parties describing the contents of the video clips as it relates to Mr. Rukstales…” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
“If the defendant had been peaceful on that day, your honor, we would not be here,” a federal prosecutor told Judge Royce Lamberth. huffpost.com/entry/qanon-sh…