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.


     
    MT15 said:
    I think they did it that way because they saw how the courts are favoring Trump’s delaying tactics. I’m kind of glad they did it that way so at least some of the people plotting to overturn the election will get tried.
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    plus they can go after trump later.
     
    GrandAdmiral said:
    Adding this here since it didn't happen, but it looks like Arizona was poised to indict Trump as well...

    www.cnn.com

    Arizona grand jurors wanted to indict Trump, prosecutors urged them not to | CNN Politics

    Members of the grand jury in Arizona that indicted 18 allies of Donald Trump earlier this year for their alleged roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election had also expressed interest in charging the former president, according to a new court filing.
    www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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    I think it's a given that if Trump doesn't somehow get control of the presidency, he's fleeing the country if he gets the chance.
     
    WASHINGTON (AP) — An attorney who represented the far-right Oath Keepers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges stemming from a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including members of the extremist group.

    Kellye SoRelle, who was general counsel for the antigovernment group and a close associate of its founder, is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 17 by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C.

    SoRelle, 45, of Granbury, Texas, answered routine questions by the judge as she pleaded guilty to two charges: a felony count of obstructing justice and a misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.

    The felony carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, but her estimated sentencing guidelines recommend a maximum of 16 months behind bars.

    SoRelle was arrested in Junction, Texas, in September 2022. Her case remained suspended for months amid questions about her mental health…….

    apnews.com

    Attorney for far-right Oath Keepers extremist group pleads guilty to Capitol riot charges

    An attorney who represented the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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    A Pennsylvania school district violated a teacher's constitutional rights by falsely suggesting he took part in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, a federal jury has concluded.

    After an 11-day trial, jurors found the Allentown School District retaliated against Jason Moorehead when it suspended him after the deadly insurrection in the nation's capital and asserted he “was involved in the electoral college protest that took place at the United States Capitol Building.”

    Although Moorehead was in Washington, D.C., to attend Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally, he said he never got closer than a mile to the Capitol and was not among the rioters who stormed the building. He has never been charged with a crime.

    Moorehead, who taught middle school social studies, said individual school board members later orchestrated a public smear campaign against him even though his teaching record was spotless, claiming they acted out of “ideological hatred.” He said the ordeal has destroyed his reputation and ended his teaching career.

    Jurors decided on Friday that the district — one of the largest in the state with more than 16,000 students — should pay Moorehead $125,000 for economic damages. The jury also found that school board member Lisa Conover and former board president Nancy Wilt acted “maliciously or wantonly,” ordering Conover to pay $6,000 in punitive damages and Wilt to pay $500.

    One of the school district's lawyers, Shorav Kaushik, said in a brief statement Thursday that “the district respects the jury’s verdict and is considering its legal options. It is looking forward to continuing its mission to serve the Allentown community and the needs of its students and families.”

    He said the district's portion of the damages will be covered by its insurance company, while Conover and Wilt will be responsible for paying punitive damages. Conover and Wilt did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday and Thursday.

    Moorehead, a Seattle native with 17 years of experience in the Allentown district, calls himself a conservative Republican and Trump supporter, but said he kept his politics to himself as a teacher in a city where Democrats predominate. Allentown, a diverse, urban district about an hour north of Philadelphia, is the only place he has ever taught.

    He has not returned to the classroom in Allentown or anywhere else, saying that would be very difficult unless the district issues an apology.

    The jury verdict "is a good start," Moorehead said in a phone interview. "But it’s still leaving me wanting more accountability from the school district to actually clear my name in the community. ... The community needs to hear from the district that I did nothing wrong and that I’m safe to return to a teaching environment.”

    Francis Malofiy, one of Moorehead's lawyers, vowed to “really put the screws to the district, put the screws to those board members, and demand that they put out a formal apology and correct this record."

    It wasn't forthcoming as of Thursday. Asked about an apology and a retraction, Kaushik, the district's lawyer, said: “As of now the district does not intend to make any further statements regarding this matter.”.................

    apnews.com

    Jury sides with Pennsylvania teacher in suit against district over Jan. 6 rally

    A federal jury says a Pennsylvania school district violated a teacher’s constitutional rights by falsely suggesting he took part in the U.S.
    apnews.com apnews.com
     
    Donald Trump has made yet another gesture of goodwill toward the Capitol riot convicts: He's planning to host an awards gala for them.

    A “J6 Awards Gala” organized by pro-Trump non-profit The America Project will be held at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey on September 5, with the former president and Rudy Giuliani among the “invited” — but not confirmed — speakers.

    The announcement poster advertises that “attendees will get a chance to win a ‘Justice for All’ Donald J Trump and J6 Prison Choir plaque.” The plaque apparently celebrates the briefly Billboard-charting jailhouse tune — featuring Trump reading the pledge of allegiance and rioters singing the national anthem — that was released earlier this year.

    The event's description says the gala will give attendees the chance to "gather to pay tribute not only to these individuals but to all J6 defendants who have shown incredible courage and sacrifice.”

    In a promotional video for the event, Trump describes the convicts as "peaceful" and "J6 hostages," and promises pardons for them if he's elected president.

    "There has never been a group of people treated so harshly or unfairly," Trump says in the video.

    The funds from the event will reportedly go toward a Capitol riot legal fund, according to the video.……

    www.independent.co.uk

    Trump will host an ‘awards gala’ for rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6

    Attendees will have the chance to win a plaque commemorating Trump and the ‘J6 Prison Choir’s’ jailhouse song ‘Jusice for All’ briefly charting at #1 on the Billboard Music Charts
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Donald Trump has made yet another gesture of goodwill toward the Capitol riot convicts: He's planning to host an awards gala for them.


    "There has never been a group of people treated so harshly or unfairly," Trump says in the video.

    The funds from the event will reportedly go toward a Capitol riot legal fund, according to the video.……
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    trump proving once again how crappy a human he is. I bet most of those funds go to Trump.
     
    I saw an opinion that the new indictment is going to be easier to prosecute and harder to appeal.

    Oh, and someone’s tiny hands are working overtime, lol.

     
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack on the building was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison.

    A police officer who tried to subdue Michael Sparks with pepper spray described him as a catalyst for the Jan. 6 insurrection. The Senate that day recessed less than one minute after Sparks jumped into the building through a broken window. Sparks then joined other rioters in chasing a police officer up flights of stairs.

    Before learning his sentencing, Sparks told the judge that he still believes the 2020 presidential election was marred by fraud and “completely taken from the American public.”

    “I am remorseful that what transpired that day didn’t help anybody,” Sparks said. “I am remorseful that our country is in the state it’s in.”

    U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who sentenced Sparks to four years and five months, told him that there was nothing patriotic about his prominent role in what was a “national disgrace.”………

    apnews.com

    First rioter to enter Capitol during Jan. 6 attack is sentenced to over 4 years in prison

    A Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack on the building has been sentenced to more than four years in prison. U.S.
    apnews.com apnews.com
     
    I haven’t read this yet - but just the thought that some MAGA attorney “accidentally” revealed the names of the grand jury that indicted the AZ fake electors makes me see red. I find it hard to believe it was an accident.

     
    Quote from the article below. It also says the attorney who filed the motion inckuding the names is representing Christina Bobb, and he could not be reached for comment. It appears that the grand jurors names were publicly available for about 10 days.

    “A day after prosecutors expressed concern in a Maricopa County courtroom that grand jury information in Arizona's fake electors case might be made public, they confirmed their fears when they told the judge overseeing the case that an attorney representing defendant Christina Bobb had publicly filed a court document that included transcripts of grand jury proceedings and grand juror names.

    Before breaking for lunch on Tuesday, Nick Klingerman, the head of the criminal division of the Arizona Attorney General's Office, alerted Superior Court Judge Bruce Cohen of an "urgent housekeeping matter."

    "As we discussed yesterday, a motion with attachments was filed, not under seal, with grand jurors' names, in violation of this court's protective order," Klingerman said. "I'd like to approach to talk about that so we could get that taken off the public docket."

    When court resumed after lunch, Cohen confirmed the document, which used grand jury transcripts to support the argument that the prosecution of Bobb was politically motivated and had been posted publicly since Aug. 19, was now sealed.”
     
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021.

    Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege.

    But as he seeks to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump continues to portray the defendants as patriots worthy of admiration, an assertion that has been undercut by the adjudicated truth in hundreds of criminal cases where judges and juries have reached the opposite conclusion about what history will remember as one of America’s darkest days.

    The cases have systematically put on record — through testimony, documents and video — the crimes committed, weapons wielded, and lives altered by physical and emotional damage.

    Trump is espousing a starkly different story, portraying the rioters as hostages and political prisoners whom he says he might pardon if he wins in November.

    “This is not normal,” U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who was nominated to the federal bench in Washington by Republican President Ronald Reagan, wrote in court papers. “This cannot become normal. We as a community, we as a society, we as a country cannot condone the normalization of the January 6 Capitol riot.”

    There are no broadcast television cameras inside the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue. But the real story of Jan. 6 is found in the reams of evidence and testimony judges and juries have seen and heard behind the doors of the courthouse where hundreds of Trump’s supporters have been convicted in the attack.

    The Associated Press has spent more than three years tracking the nearly 1,500 Capitol riot cases brought by the Justice Department. AP reporters have reviewed hours of video footage and thousands of pages of court documents.

    They have witnessed dozens of court hearings and trials for the rioters who descended on the Capitol and temporarily halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.

    It’s unclear whether Trump will ever stand trial at the same courthouse in the federal case alleging he illegally schemed to overturn his 2020 election loss in the run-up to the violence.

    The Supreme Court’s ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution means a trial won’t happen before the election. If he wins, he could appoint an attorney general who could seek dismissal of the case, or potentially order a pardon for himself.

    In Trump’s telling, the mob on Jan. 6 assembled peacefully to preserve democracy, not upend it, and the rioters were agitated but not armed.

    They were not insurrectionists but rather 1776-style “patriots.” And now they are being persecuted by the Justice Department, juries and judges for their political beliefs……..

     
    Optimus Prime said:
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021.

    Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege.

    But as he seeks to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump continues to portray the defendants as patriots worthy of admiration, an assertion that has been undercut by the adjudicated truth in hundreds of criminal cases where judges and juries have reached the opposite conclusion about what history will remember as one of America’s darkest days.

    The cases have systematically put on record — through testimony, documents and video — the crimes committed, weapons wielded, and lives altered by physical and emotional damage.

    Trump is espousing a starkly different story, portraying the rioters as hostages and political prisoners whom he says he might pardon if he wins in November.

    “This is not normal,” U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who was nominated to the federal bench in Washington by Republican President Ronald Reagan, wrote in court papers. “This cannot become normal. We as a community, we as a society, we as a country cannot condone the normalization of the January 6 Capitol riot.”

    There are no broadcast television cameras inside the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue. But the real story of Jan. 6 is found in the reams of evidence and testimony judges and juries have seen and heard behind the doors of the courthouse where hundreds of Trump’s supporters have been convicted in the attack.

    The Associated Press has spent more than three years tracking the nearly 1,500 Capitol riot cases brought by the Justice Department. AP reporters have reviewed hours of video footage and thousands of pages of court documents.

    They have witnessed dozens of court hearings and trials for the rioters who descended on the Capitol and temporarily halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.

    It’s unclear whether Trump will ever stand trial at the same courthouse in the federal case alleging he illegally schemed to overturn his 2020 election loss in the run-up to the violence.

    The Supreme Court’s ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution means a trial won’t happen before the election. If he wins, he could appoint an attorney general who could seek dismissal of the case, or potentially order a pardon for himself.

    In Trump’s telling, the mob on Jan. 6 assembled peacefully to preserve democracy, not upend it, and the rioters were agitated but not armed.

    They were not insurrectionists but rather 1776-style “patriots.” And now they are being persecuted by the Justice Department, juries and judges for their political beliefs……..

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    The destruction Trump has done to this country cannot be overstated.
     

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