Trump loyalists in Congress to challenge Electoral College results in Jan. 6 joint session (Update: Insurrectionists storm Congress)(And now what?) (1 Viewer)

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    I guess it's time to start a thread for this. We know that at least 140 members of Congress have pledged to join the objection. Under federal law, if at least one member of each house (HOR and Senate) objects, each house will adjourn the joint session for their own session (limited at two hours) to take up the objection. If both houses pass a resolution objecting to the EC result, further action can take place. If both houses do not (i.e. if one or neither passes a resolution), the objection is powerless and the college result is certified.

    Clearly this is political theater as we know such a resolution will not pass the House, and there's good reason to think it wouldn't pass the Senate either (with or without the two senators from Georgia). The January 6 joint session is traditionally a ceremonial one. This one will not be.

    Many traditional pillars of Republican support have condemned the plan as futile and damaging. Certainly the Trump loyalists don't care - and many are likely doing it for fundraising purposes or to carry weight with the fraction of their constituencies that think this is a good idea.


     
    GrandAdmiral said:
    Nope. He wants to protect the rioters from the mean Justice Department...

    www.cnn.com

    House Speaker Johnson wants to blur January 6 footage to protect Capitol rioters | CNN Politics

    House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that before publicly releasing footage of the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, the faces of the mob will be blurred to protect them from the Justice Department.
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    So, now we have reached the point to where the SotH is publicly announcing that he and the Republican Congress will break Federal Law and blur/OBSTRUCT faces in these videos in order to CONCEAL their identities from Department of JUSTICE OFFICIALS.
     
    DJ1BigTymer said:
    So, now we have reached the point to where the SotH is publicly announcing that he and the Republican Congress will break Federal Law and blur/OBSTRUCT faces in these videos in order to CONCEAL their identities from Department of JUSTICE OFFICIALS.
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    How is it even going to do anything? Doesn't the DOJ have the whole, unredacted thing already?
     
    brandon said:
    Why would he hide their images and say it was to ensure they wouldn’t be prosecuted if they already had access to all the January 6th videos?
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    The FBI and DOJ had access to all the January 6th videos. The speaker aiding insurrectionists talk is nonsensical.
     
    SaintForLife said:
    How could he aid insurrectionists if the DOJ/FBI already had access to all the January 6th videos?
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    Because the sedition hunters do not have access and they are all over the US. There are still a lot who hasnt been identified but who could/would be if/when people who knows them, see them and notify the FBI
     
    Former New York mayor and presidential attorney Rudy Giuliani does not have $148 million.

    We know this because Giuliani has for some time been scrambling to manage his escalating debts, debts that include the rapidly increasing costs of the attorneys that he’s had to retain to defend him in court.

    One of his former attorneys is suing him for more than $1 million, but, given the events of the past 24 hours, that’s a relatively minor item among Giuliani’s problems.

    On Friday afternoon — as you almost certainly already know — a jury determined that Giuliani should pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers who he’d repeatedly claimed had helped undermine the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden over President Donald Trump.

    That amount is 100 times what he owes his attorney, all because Giuliani, in service to Trump’s efforts to retain power despite losing that election, insisted on disparaging Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss.

    Freeman and Moss sought $48 million. The jury thought they were owed far more than that.

    This massive penalty was modest compared to the settlement Fox News reached with Dominion Voting Systems because the channel’s hosts and guests repeatedly alleged that Dominion machines had facilitated election fraud. You’ll recall that in April, Fox agreed to pay more than $787 million, more than five times what Giuliani owes Freeman and Moss.


    Others also have paid for backing Trump’s false claims of having won the 2020 election. Earlier this year, the Guardian tallied the fines and restitution amounts levied against those who participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. At that point, nearly $900,000 was demanded from riot defendants.

    Combine those penalties, and the cost of Trump’s effort to retain power has cost his allies more than $936 million — without including attorney costs and other incidentals.

    Without including, too, the costs of the attorneys for the hundreds of other defendants in riot prosecutions, fake-elector cases or the indictments targeting Trump.

    Even without that, it’s an enormous amount of money, a sum that is hard for a normal person to grasp…….

     

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