"Four decades ago, the Supreme Court wrote that 'the open processes of justice' are especially important after 'a shocking crime occurs.'... There is no doubt that a shocking crime occurred on January 6, 2021."
Sam Lazar was pallin' around with Doug Mastriano at a Rudy Giuliani event when he was featured on the FBI's Capitol Violence website, having incited rioters to "TAKE [cops'] GUUUUUNNNNS" on Jan. 6.
"there is no meaningful interest in maintaining the fiction that Lazar is still awaiting trial on charges to which he has pleaded not guilty. There would be no prejudice to Lazar or to the Government in acknowledging what the public already knows."
Here’s the heavily redacted court document, jointly filed by DOJ and Sam Lazar’s team:
Sam Lazar's release date, now in the court docket, thanks to the media coalition / the Bureau of Prisons' inmate locator tool.
Let's pretend, for a moment, that Sam Lazar hasn't already pleaded guilty and been sentenced. On its face, that's a massive violation of the law. His last status conference was February 2022, and he only waived speedy trial rights until ~June 2022.
As of March 2022, we know, Sam Lazar was continuing to negotiate "a disposition of the matter short of trial."
Then, nada. For nearly a year.
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“I was a gun prosecutor — we never prosecuted addicts for lying and buying on federal forms,” Gowdy said. “So, I don’t think Hunter Biden ought to be singled out either. Go after him on taxes, go after him on corruption…
“But I’d be curious how many people were prosecuted for being an addict in possession of a firearm, and I’ll bet it’s less than 10 in the last 12 months…”
“I don’t think people ought to be singled out because of their last name. Treat him like you would ‘Hunter Smith,’ even though it’s Hunter Biden.”
NEW: Yesterday, Michael Fanone — the former police officer who was nearly killed by Trump rioters who actually believed the former president's lies about the 2020 election — called Donald Trump an "authoritarian" with "a violence fetish."
Hours later, his mom was swatted.
"This is the reality of going up against or challenging Donald Trump... These swatting calls are incredibly f---ing dangerous..."
“All I do is go out there and talk about what happened to me and so many other police officers, like I always have, and this is the recourse,” Fanone said. “This is the direct result of that.”
"In addition to harming the officer, I know that my actions also harmed the country..."
Jan. 6 rioter Joseph Fisher — the former Boston cop who assaulted a Capitol Police officer with a chair and his hands — wrote this letter ahead of his sentencing Friday.
I know what you're thinking. "Hey, wait, I thought there was a cop named Joseph Fisher who was accused of assaulting police at the Capitol who has his case tied up at SCOTUS?"
When Brent Bozell IV was in his formative teen years, his father founded a group to protect the American public from “Friends," "Dawson’s Creek" and "Spin City.”
Turns out that wasn’t the type of media that Bozell, now in his mid-40s, needed to avoid.
Back in 2020, after Donald Trump lost the presidential election, the official account of the Arizona Republican Party started getting a little... wild.
In late night tweets, they started asking followers if they were ready to die for Trump.
When another Twitter user called the person behind the account "one of the funniest posters in the state," the AZGOP's comms director posted this:
Days later, on Dec. 14, 2020, the Arizona Republican Party posted footage of the fake electors signing. That video is now a key piece of evidence in the Arizona criminal indictment of the fake electors.
L. Brent Bozell Jr. and L. Brent Bozell III shaped the conservative movement in the 20th and 21st century.
Justice Department prosecutors are seeking almost 12 yrs in federal prison (and a domestic terrorism enhancement) for L. Brent Bozell IV, who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6.
"There are few rioters on January 6 who were involved in as many pivotal breaches as Bozell."
"during his trial testimony, Bozell came up with outrageous justifications for his conduct on January 6 that were both inconsistent with the video evidence and implausible"