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Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 Profile picture
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Oct 12, 2022 • 24 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Sentencing hearing now for three members of the Munn family who pleaded guilty to "parading" in the Capitol.

DOJ wants 30 days in jail for the parents and 21 days in jail for their young adult children.

Presiding judge is Chief Judge Beryl Howell. This is part of DOJs evidence: Image
DOJ explaining to judge that the Munns were on social media after Jan 6 to express they were "excited" about what happened. "January 6 was not something people should be excited about," prosecutor says.

Judge interrupts - "proud of?"

Howell asking why adult children...
shouldn't get same jail time as parents.

LOL: Prosecutor wants 3 years probation IN ADDITION to jail so government can make sure the children "get on the straight and narrow" after being misled by their parents by going into the Capitol.

DOJ wants probation into 2024 election.
Howell: Kristi Munn "perpetuated" false information on social media about what happened on January 6. She saw police "bleeding" and using flash grenades.

Howell asking why she deleted social media accounts.

Howell now asking about a photo of Kristi using a 3%er sign, calling...
it a "right wing militia group." Howell demanding to know how Kristi Munn didn't know what it was.

THIS IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA.

Howell is of course an open partisan, hates Trump, and was appointed by Obama. She refers to J6ers as "rioters" even tho no one charged with "riot."
Joshua Munn has now separated himself from his family, his attorney explains.
Howell explains long probation is necessary for the "safety of our democracy, country generally, that they are no longer tempted by politicians to engage in political violence that interrupts the...
the peaceful transition of power or our elections."

No one in the Munn family is accused of attacking police, vandalizing property. In fact, there's evidence they tried to get out, help police, and pick up debris.

Howell also was chief judge overseeing Mueller probe.
Lawyer up now for Kayli Munn. She was 18 at the time, a high school senior. DOJ wants her in jail for 21 days. I can only imagine what her life has been like since this cruel DOJ took aim at her family.

Howell: "Did she follow her father's social media postings before the trip?"
Howell: He was "open" that his plan was to "march" on the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6.

Apparently that's not 1A protected in Howell's courtroom.

Howell now accusing Kayli of lying to FBI. "She claims to have seen antifa? But couldn't explain what antifa looked like? What am I...
supposed to make of that? Seems like she was making stuff up? How seriously was she taking the FBI if she was making stuff up?"

Kayli not charged with lying to the FBI but that isn't stopping Howell from making accusations from the bench.

Howell's comments are purely political.
"There are still a lot of conspiracy theories floating on social media by responsible media" related to Jan 6. People are susceptible to believing "weird stuff."

Public defender agrees, says it's a struggle with his other Jan 6 clients---what's coming from "rational media." LOL
Last year, Howell noted the "parading" charge is a class B misdemeanor, a petty offense, that the DC District Court never before dealt with. But now it consumes the time of the DC court while allowing vile partisans like Howell to berate Trump supporters for their beliefs.
Kristi Munn apologizing to court and the "country" for what she did. "We were not thinking."

Joshua Munn doesn't make a statement. (He submitted a letter to court.)

Kayli Munn: "I want to apologize for my actions that day. My parents raised me to be a good person."
Howell: "What were you trying to do?"

Kayli: Have our voices heard, if the election was "truthful." We wanted to right our wrongs. We had in our heads we were fighting a "monster."

Howell: "Who is the monster? You understand everyone is an American, right?"

Kayli: Yes.
Howell about to sentence. "This is a serious offense even though it's a petty offense. This was a shocking event" that had consequences "around the world."

Howell: What happened on January 6 was NOT first amendment protected speech, it was not legitimate protest, it was a...
CATASTROPHIC security breach of our Capitol with thousands of people with no screening."

Howell raises a DM message by Kayli joking about not getting arrested. Father posted about marching to the US Capitol.

"But it was gonna be wild," Howell says, citing Trump.
Howell erroneously claims police were using "non lethal" weapons to stop the riot. She obviously forgot about Ashli Babbitt. (Her voice just drips with condescension and arrogance.)

"They made themselves at home." Howell walking thru all the Munns' behavior inside the bldg Image
"They were exacerbating a really terrible security breach." Berating Munns for entering and exiting thru a broken window.

Accuses Munns of making "false statements" about what they saw inside the Capitol, discussing FB messages. "These were fighting words after Jan 6...
that has led to misinformation about that day."

LOL, unbelievable.

Howell mocking posts that police started the violence that day. Of course, that's true.

"Joining the mob was not helping the police. They exacerbated a terrible situation for police."
"These 3 defendants had the wrong models to follow on January 6," Howell says, referring to their parents.

Destroy families--that's the Democrats' goal.

"She threw up the bogeymen of Antifa," Howell says of Kayli, the then-18 year old.

Howell disputes that court can...
impose jail time and probation. (This is an issue before other judges.)

Howell: Kristi walked thru the Capitol carrying a "Trump 2020 flag like a super hero cape." She should know better, Howell says?

Howell sentences Kristi Munn to 90 days home confinement, 36 months probation
Howell "appreciates" that Joshua Howell said he didn't want to go to the Trump rally. Here's is his letter. Howell also appreciates that he has distanced himself from his family and their "negative influences."

Joshua gets 36 months probation, $10 fine. Image
Up now Kayli Munn, the high school senior at the time.

Howell notes her speech/debate involvement requires "using common sense and reason. These were not skills I saw demonstrated in evidence on January 6. Those weren't skills during what she said during her FBI interview."
Howell lectures Kayli to use her analytic skills "in her daily life" to make sure she never finds herself before a FEDERAL JUDGE for misdemeanor. Howell laughs at parents' influence.

Howell sentences Kayli to 36 months probation.

Parents will be sentenced later today.

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Nov 19
Hearing about to start in Jeb Boasberg courtroom as the embattled judge resumes contempt proceedings against the Trump DOJ related to Alien Enemies Act
declassified.live/p/the-contempt…
Boasberg says appellate court gave him permission to "go forward" with another contempt inquiry.

Authorized to pursue a criminal contempt factual finding against the Trump DOJ, which he is "preparing" to do as he did "seven months ago." (His April 2025 probable cause finding was vacated but the appellate court kicked the matter back to him to start over.

Boasberg says there are "new developments" since his first determination and raises allegations by Erez Reuvini, the so called DOJ "whistleblower" who accused former acting DAG Emil Bove of saying the DOJ might have to say "fuck you" to the courts. Boasberg says Reuvini might be called as a witness as the judge plans to require testimony from various parties.

"I believe justice requires me to move promptly on this."
Lee Gelernt, ACLU attorney representing illegal Venezuelans covered by AEA.

DOJ prosecutor - "the government objects to criminal contempt proceedings." Boasberg immediately grills prosecutor as to whether he believes the full DC appellate court gave him permission to restart contempt inquiry.

"I will be going forward with it," Boasberg.

Boasberg says he will seek testimony from those who "defied" his order to return planes carrying AEA subjects on the evening of March 15. The problem for Boasberg is the directive represented an "oral order" that was not reflected in his later written order.

He wants proposals from both sides by Monday on how to proceed including a list of witnesses in his fact finding exercise including Reuvini and Drew Ensign, the DOJ who represented the government during early stage of litigation.

"I certainly intend to find out what happened that day."
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Nov 10
On his radio show today, Glenn Beck appears to walk back The Blaze’s audacious outing of the alleged J5/6 pipe bomber.

He refused to mention the individual’s name on air and said “a match is not guilt, comparison is not proof.”

There’s more…
After recklessly putting this individual’s name out in the public last week and endangering her safety, Beck now insists that she must be protected and claims she was low man on the totem pole in any inside operation. Not what was being said last week when story was pitched:
“If the story is true.”

Now I’ve been told for days that no one can raise questions about the veracity of the piece or express doubt over the identification of this individual.

🤷🏼‍♀️

(Btw this individual works campus security for CIA. She’s not exactly a top tier official.)
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Oct 31
Here’s the nondisclosure order signed by Jeb Boasberg in May 2023 prohibiting Verizon from notifying several US senators and one House member that Jack Smith had subpoenaed their phone records. Verizon complied with the subpoenas and NDOs with the exception of Ted Cruz.

Important to note what Boasberg claims here. In order to authorize an NDO in a tech related subpoena, a judge must determine one of five factors according to Stored Communications Act.

What Boasberg alleged is that sitting Republican lawmakers might break the law if notified of the subpoenas.

He is a lunatic and must be removed from the bench. This is the CHIEF JUDGE of the DC district court.Image
Subpoena: Image
Pathetic response by Verizon Image
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Oct 19
Jim Comey just added Michael Dreeben to his criminal defense team.

Dreeben most recently represented Jack Smith in the SCOTUS immunity case. (Safe to say Dreeben lost.)

But Dreeben's dirty hands are all over Robert Mueller's investigation, too. He is clearly conflicted 🧵
Dreeben played a key role not just on Team Mueller but he also is directly tied to Comey's involvement in developing the obstruction case against the president--recall Comey admitted the reason he leaked the content of his secret Flynn memo was to prompt the appointment of a special counsel, which happened the day after the NYT leak...
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In 2023, Dreeben bragged about his lead role in the Mueller witch hunt; the "speed" at which the investigation proceeded; and how he was responsible for overseeing the production of Vol II of Mueller report, which addressed potential obstruction charges against the president.

If I were the DOJ, this guy would be toward the top of a government witness list. So how can he represent Comey when he likely will be questioned as part of the obstruction/false statements case against him?

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So in 48 hours, Judge Karin Immergut (Trump) determined the president acted unconstitutionally in federalizing and deploying Natl Guard troops to protest Portland ICE facility; claimed the move violated Oregon's 10th Amend rights; and concluded there was no "rebellion" taking place to justify the president's order.

If you read carefully how Immergut described illegal immigrants, you might pick up a slight bias...as well as her claims of "mostly peaceful" protests:Image
The way federal judges so casually downplay examples of criminal behavior represents another part of the escalating crisis in the judicial branch. Even if you take the word of local law enforcement--Immergut's pooh-poohing of sustained violence to any degree is stunning: Image
Immergut--relying heavily on determinations made by Judge Charles Breyer in a similar lawsuit in California--decides on her own that no "rebellion" is underway.

I mean, surely Immergut is aware of attacks on ICE agents and facilities in other cities including Los Angeles and Chicago...right?

Her arrogance here reminds me of the words of Judge Andrew Oldham of the 5th Circuit in his dissent in an Alien Enemies Act opinion. Oldham repeatedly warned of judicial overreach in matters exclusive to the executive branch:

Oldham: "It transmogrifies the least-dangerous branch into robed crusaders who get to playact as multitudinous Commanders in Chief."

Immergut LARPing:Image
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Sep 8
It's hard to know where to start--or end-- in covering the batsh*t meltdown last week by DC Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui. (I made the full transcript available to my paid subscribers on Substack)

Faruqui was presiding over a hearing in the case of Edward Dana, a career criminal with 9 prior convictions and 23 arrests who was on probation and arrested by DC police for vandalizing property in a drunken rage on August 17.

During his arrest, Dana said he wanted to kill the president (among other crazy statements.) DC US attorney Jeanine Pirro sought to indict Dana on a federal felony of making threats to the president.

But once again--in a rarity now commonplace in DC--a grand jury made up of DC voters (93% for Kamala in 2024) refused to indict him. So prosecutors had to drop the charge.

This enraged Faruqui, who not only misrepresented Dana's case (making him a victim rather than the longtime perp he is) and he berated the prosecutor for about 20 minutes or so.

But Faruqui's tirade had less to do with Dana and more to do with President Trump. Time and again, Faruqui--who was appointed in 2020 but not confirmed by the Senate--blasted the president's policies related to using federal law enforcement agencies and the National Guard in DC and warnings to do the same in other cities to combat crime.

Faruqui:

"How do we reestablish faith in people in DC that they're not going to be wrongly arrested, when the hobby, or whatever, the interest of the moment, if we move to Chicago or whatever city, Baltimore, or whatever next thing it is that catches the administration's interest, what are we, the people left here in Washington, DC, who have actually lived here, had to suffer through whatever is happening, how am I supposed to reestablish confidence in every defense lawyer and defendant that they are being treated fairly and rightly?"

Have to "suffer," the judge says.
As I have noted repeatedly, Faruqui signed hundreds of arrest warrants for J6ers including the unlawful 1512c2 felony. In one case, Faruqui found a woman in criminal contempt after she refused to answer his questions and willingly submit to conditions of release on her nonviolent misdemeanors charges.

He raised no such objections (to my knowledge) about the treatment of J6ers or berated Biden's DOJ for bringing near-daily cases to the DC courthouse.

Faruqui:

"I'm absolutely just beyond words as to what is happening and that we are just acting like this is normal. This is not only abnormal, it is now we are at past the question of constitutional crisis and academic thinking.

This is not hypothetical. What is being done? It is implausible, illegal, immoral for one person in our country to be treated like this, and now we are getting into double digits. What is being done?"

Faruqui misrepresents why these cases are being dismissed--he refuses to aknowledge the partisan bias at work by DC grand juries who are protesting the Trump administration by refusing to bring criminal indictments sought by Trump's DOJ. (I believe there are six such known cases as of now.)

Faruqui: "There seems to be just a complete disregard for the impact this is having on the people who are getting arrested and then released or dismissed. They are our fellow citizens.

This is not how we treat criminals, we don't treat them that way. We certainly do not treat presumed innocent people this way, let alone people who are our fellow Americans."

Keep in mind--Dana has a rap sheet a mile long:

Faruqui: "There seems to be a complete disregard for the traumatic effect that's having not just on the city, its citizens, the court, the AUSAs who are working all night and day to satisfy some sort of, you know, whatever this fantasy is or idea that there's going to be some great showing.

There are consequences. And right now, Mr. Dana is suffering those consequences."
Faruqui lauds the idea of a "deep state" of career prosecutors internally protesting the president's approach and the authority of AG Pam Bondi.

This is truly WILD:

"So if the United States Attorney [Pirro] wants to take this as a new tactic to just arrest people and detain them, she will find the court will hold a line." (Dana was not held by the feds but by local DC police. The prosecutor tried to raise that important fact with Faruqui but he did not care.)

"And I know that the U.S. Attorney's Office is full of U.S. attorneys who are continuing to hold the line and fight to hold the line. And I give great credit to the courage of the AUSAs who stay there, because the court can't do it on its own. We need dedicated -- what other people call the deep state, I would call that principled AUSAs, principled Department of Justice employees, the ones who didn't get fired for no reason apparently. (No reason--another lie.)

The ones who stay there, I am deeply grateful that you had the courage to come here today, stand in front of me and listen to me be appalled by what is happening in your office. That takes true courage."
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