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Judge Tom Hogan, Reagan appointee on the DC district court, went on inactive status late last year.

After that, he reached out to none other than Mary McCord to vent about J6 and Trump. McCord hosted Hogan at Georgetown a few months ago.

What he said is stunning--and representative of the mindset of nearly all of his colleagues on the DC bench:
Hogan lied about police fatalities tied to Jan 6 and what happened to Ofc Brian Sicknick.

Keep in mind--Hogan was reversed by the appellate court for locking up under pretrial detention one of two men accused of spraying Sicknick with pepper spray. George Tanios spent 5+ months in the DC gulag before he was released on appeal.

After holding the other man, Julian Khater, behind bars for 18 months until Khater was tormented into taking a plea for assaulting officers.

Hogan allowed Sicknick's ex girlfriend to enter a "victim impact" statement then sentenced Khater to 80 month in federal prison.
Hogan is frustrated the media isn't covering the tongue-lashings given by DC judges to J6ers during struggle sessions disguised as court proceedings.

He repeatedly referenced the shifting J6 narrative, mocking the use of descriptions such as "patriots" and "hostages."
Hogan is upset political prisoners are communicating from jail and have political support. "The whole atmosphere has changed."

He also doesn't appreciate privately-paid lawyers who go to the mat for their clients against government overreach and are "true believers."

Hogan has handled at least 24 J6 cases. He sent 10 J6ers convicted of misdemeanors to jail and another 5 convicted of felonies to prison.

He might be on "inactive status" but his cases still linger on including 2 1512c2 obstruction convictions. (I will separate out those comments in a different post.)
Trump, Hogan claims, is the biggest offender of attacking judges and threatening an "independent" judiciary LOLOL.

He suggests judges are the only thing standing between Trump and the end of democracy.

Hogan again expresses alarm that J6ers and 40 million Americans still believe the 2020 election was stolen.

This now makes at least 3 DC judges--Hogan, Reggie Walton, and Beryl Howell--who have made public statements directly aimed at Donald Trump.

Another reason among many why the DC federal court system should be shut down.

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Apr 10
The latest order by Judge Cannon is another withering rebuke of Special Counsel Jack Smith.

While she grants for now his request to keep names of potential government witnesses under seal, she takes shot after shot at him.

Here is how she describes his case: Image
Important to remember Cannon has seen all the evidence including the 32 "national defense information" files. This isn't the first time she's hinted the case is garbage.

She calls BS on Smith's claims of threats/intimidation of witnesses. She'll keep names sealed for now but wants general descriptions of the individuals (NARA Official 1, etc)Image
Smith basically wants to keep the entire case under wraps until the last minute.

Cannon continues to argue for public access and court transparency. And it sounds like she will soon schedule a hearing on the defense motion to compel (which detailed collusion btw DOJ and other agencies including NARA and Biden White House to initiate the case) and selective/vindictive prosecution motion.Image
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Apr 3
Reading Jack Smith's response on jury instructions and it's clear that the gloves are off btw DOJ and Judge Cannon.

One defense attorney just told me: "The tone Smith is taking with Cannon is no longer persuasion but outright threats. Unheard of dynamic btw DOJ and the bench."
Jack Smith's response is hysterical (and not in a funny way in a desperate way) bc he knows he has little control over her decision related to final jury instructions.

And he is arguing the basis for Trump's "unauthorized possession" of national defense material rests on Obama exec order not the Presidential Records Act.

So everyone who cried for months that "DRUMPF BROKE THE PRA!" can sit down. Jack Smith says PRA now has nothing to do with the case.

Also reminder of the bait and switch here. NARA sought files based on the claims Trump was violating the PRA. He produced 15 boxes of papers. NARA then claimed they found records with "classified markings" and sent a criminal referral (1st time ever) to FBI.

FBI promptly opened investigation. FBI sent a subpoena to Trump in May 2022 seeking more records with "classified markings." They turned over 38 more files.

Then in August, FBI sought search warrant seeking "national defense information." Reminder too we have not seen full unredacted application for search warrant.

Did DOJ seek warrant under the PRA or the Espionage Act or Obama's Exec Order or....what?Image
I will separate out Smith's threats to Cannon (unusual and toothless for the most part) later but this is basically the jury instructions DOJ wants to use.

This also might be a problem for DOJ bc it appears Trump still had Q security clearance at Dept. of Energy--one that DOE retroactively rescinded after Smith indicted Trump.

Also during March 14 hearing, DOJ claimed there was no formal process for a president to either receive or lose security clearance. So this might be another area of contentionImage
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Mar 28
Add Judge Tim Kelly (Trump appointee and one of the worst on the DC bench) to list of judges threatening to add other enhancements to remaining convictions if 1512c2 is reversed.

This is his threat during a Jan 2024 sentencing for Gilbert Fonticoba, who went inside the building for 3 minutes. In a stipulated bench trial, Kelly found him guilty of 1512c2 and civil disorder.

Defense lawyer arguing against DOJs 62 month prison sentence recommendation based on SCOTUS review of 1512c2.

Here is what Judge Tim Kelly--who will be at the top of the list of any judiciary review of J6--said. "Vary upward" means add time to sentence.Image
Judge Kelly, who sentenced Enrique Tarrio to 22 years, is not just a stammering moron in court he is a moron period.

Kelly--who worked for Sen. Grassley and was Federalist Society approved--JUST SAID the impact of Jan 6 in DC is worse than criminals who rob Walgreens

IMPEACH Image
Judge Kelly sentenced Fonticoba to 48 months for the 1512c2 conviction but then claims he would sentence Fonticoba to 48 months on only the civil disorder conviction to justify his decision to send a man with no criminal record and 2 teenage children to jail for 4 years on charge that might be reversed by SCOTUS. (Max for civil disorder is 5 years.)

These are the bloodthirsty dunces J6ers must deal with every day.Image
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Mar 23
House released heavily redacted transcript of J6 committee interrogation of longtime White House employee to pry information about Trump's private phone calls, meetings, and activity on Jan 6.

This is line of questioning led by Dan George, the committee's senior inquisitor:
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Pelosi-hired thug asks White House employee--who clearly is not pleased by being forced to cooperate--about a private convo between president and vice president on Jan 6.

This is why Dems/Biden WH wanted this transcript concealed--and why is first part of answer redacted?
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UNBELIEVABLE: Dan George, J6 lawyer, asks WH employee if Trump called Pence a "p*ssy" on Jan 6.

Employee says no.

Something very wrong with these people...Image
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Mar 22
NEW: Judge Cannon issued an order related to CIPA (Classified Information Procedures Act) filings in classified documents case. Special Counsel is using CIPA guidance to conceal some materials from Trump, his co-defendants, and lawyers.

For now, Cannon says mostly ok but we'll see on other records. She overall seems inclined to make as much discovery available not just to defense but public, tooImage
As a reminder: Judge Cannon has viewed the files in the indictment--which is why her comments last week about "arbitrary enforcement" of Espionage Act should scare the sh*t out of DOJ.

It appears Smith is trying to redact correspondence in the Presidential Daily Brief---from the former president.

The cited Motion to Compel was the bombshell motion filed in January where Team Trump articulated the other members of the prosecution team--Biden WH, intelligence community, National Archives, top DOJ officials--which Cannon is still considering.Image
Her order throws plenty of lowkey shade at Jack Smith. One section she tosses entirely--at Smith's request--is "classified" material that has nothing to do with the case and (read her words here) was BS to begin with: Image
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Mar 20
In an effort to stem a flood of requests by J6ers serving time for 1512c2, the obstruction count pending before SCOTUS, DOJ and DC US Atty Matthew Graves now warn if it’s reversed and those convicted seek reduced or vacated prison sentence, the govt will ask for MORE time: Image
This is why exuberance over recent appellate court ruling overturning a sentencing enhancement for 1512c2 was unwarranted. DOJ and judges have plenty of options to extend prison time—either based on offense or “upward departures.”

Make no mistake—this is Graves’ way of threatening J6ers sentenced for DOJ unlawful use of 1512c2: if you ask for release or reduced sentence based on SCOTUS’ likely reversal of obstruction count, we’ll figure out a way to make you serve MORE time.

And most DC judges will be only too happy to comply:Image
The judge in this cited case—former chief judge Beryl Howell, the source of the rot in DC legal/judicial system—recently acknowledged the forthcoming tsunami of court motions if 1512c2 is reversed this summer.

She suggested the new enhancements also cited in the screenshot above. They will not accept defeat on 1512c2—in fact, they will instead punish those seeking justified relief.

Shut down this court and US Atty office.
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