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Listening to a status hearing now for four Proud Boys leaders accused of conspiracy. Judge Timothy Kelly says he's considering moving Zachary Rehl from PA to DC because the PA facility can't produce him for hearings. Rehl's new attorney, Carmen Hernandez, says DC isn't better.

Hernandez says the DC Jail has been "hellish" about making clients in other cases available for hearings.

Joseph Bigg's attorney Jonathan Daniel Hull calls the D.C. Jail a "phenomenally dysfunctional place." Says it transcends any issues with COVID or anything else. Really doesn't want him moved there. He's at a facility in Seminole County, Florida, at the moment.

"This is the most unhappy place I've ever been," Jonathan Daniel Hull says. "If they can find a way to make your job harder by not doing theirs, they'll do it."

Judge Kelly says Hull is suggesting no defendant at the D.C. Jail could adequately prepare for trial at the facility.

Hull says Joseph Biggs is "much less likely to start a revolution" from home than either the Florida jail he's in now or DC. Calls it a "nerve center."

(He might not be wrong. An extremism expert told us housing J6 detainees together was a bad idea.) wusa9.com/article/news/n…

Carmen Hernandez, now representing Zachary Rehl after he dropped Jonathon Moseley, says all the J6 defendants in the DC Jail may now have tablets, but the jail doesn't provide them chargers, so they can only use them for a limited time each day.

Carmen Hernandez says a further wrinkle is that if Judge Kelly orders these defendants moved to DC they will almost certainly have to go through a 14-day quarantine in lockdown, which will further delay things.

Judge Kelly is asking the parties to get their pretrial motions in by March 16. Jury selection for Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Charles Donohoe is currently set to begin on May 18.

Carmen Hernandez says she anticipates she will request a jury questionnaire due to the publicity in the case (presumably to ask potential jurors what, if any, feelings they have about the Proud Boys).