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#Republican #LizCheney, the fmr congresswoman, #Jan6 cmte co-chair & #Trump critic, assailed #House Speaker #MikeJohnson for his impending appearance outside the courthouse where Trump's #ElectionInterference / #HushMoney trial is taking place. “Have to admit I’m surprised that SpeakerJohnson wants to be in the ’I cheated on my wife with a porn star’club,” she wrote on X. “I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all.”
#TrumpTrial #law #Republicans #GOP
Federal Appeals Court Upholds #SteveBannon’s #Contempt #Conviction
Stephen# Bannon, a longtime ally of #Trump, had been found #guilty of defying a subpoena from the House #Jan6 committee.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/us/politics/stephen-bannon-contempt-upheld.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
👍🏻 #RFKJr.'s new hire who downplayed #Jan6 appears to have been at the Capitol during the attack
Photos and videos from outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, uncovered by online sleuths and NBC News appear to show Zach Henry, a right-wing influencer now working for Kennedy's campaign.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-staffer-zach-henry-jan-6-downplay-capitol-attack-rcna150476
RFK Jr.'s new hire who downplayed Jan. 6 appears to have been at the Capitol during the attack
Zach Henry, a right-wing social media influencer hired by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s presidential campaign, appears to have been outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.Ryan J. Reilly (NBC News)
"FBI agents on Friday arrested a Canton man accused of pushing police officers and attempting to break into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/canton-man-arrested-in-jan-6-attack-on-u-s-capitol/ar-AA1o6C5o
"Investigators identified Clay Norris, 48, through photos and video showing him on Capitol grounds before breaching police barricades and telling other rioters to 'push forward' as they neared an entrance."
#Trump Suggests #Student #Protests Are as Bad as #Jan6
He also, again, described 2017’s deadly neo-#Nazi rally in #Charlottesville, Virginia as “peanuts” compared to pro-#Palestinian student protests across the country
#VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-compares-student-protesters-to-jan-6-rioters-pardon-1235012621/
Trump Compares Student Protesters to Jan. 6 Rioters
Donald Trump compared pro-Palestinian student protesters to the violent Jan. 6 rioters he’s promised to pardon.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok debate/discuss: whether the Supreme Court will create difficulties for the Special Counsel and its DC election interference criminal case against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RlP8hAbQms #jan6 #SCOTUS
Supreme Court STEPS INTO IT AGAIN with Major Hearing
Legal AF podcast anchors Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok debate/discuss: whether the Supreme Court will create difficulties for the Special Counsel and its DC...YouTube
Via Kyle Cheney:
NEW: Judge Mehta has *denied* Donald #Trump's motion to pause the #Jan6 lawsuits against him filed by members of Congress and police officers.
Trump wanted them put on hold until his criminal case is resolved.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/18/jan-6-lawsuits-trump-00153133
3 #Jan6 defendants already had their sentences reduced. #ClarenceThomas is back after an unexplained absence from Monday’s court session.
Before arguments began Mon, Chief Justice John Roberts announced in court that Thomas would still participate in the cases, based on the briefs & transcripts.
#SCOTUS is hearing a challenge today to a federal #law prosecutors used to charge >350 people who attacked the Capitol on #Jan6.
>100 have been convicted & sentenced under the statute for obstructing or impeding an ofcl proceeding—the joint session that convened to confirm Biden’s victory.
The case could impact #Trump’s federal trial in DC for trying to remain in power, 2 charges he faces are based on the same #obstruction statute.
#ClarenceThomas was first to ask a question, asking #JosephFischer’s attorney a very specific question about his reading of the #obstruction statute. “How do we determine what these provisions have in common. Do we look after the ‘otherwise’ or before?” he asked. Critics have said Thomas should not have any role in #Jan6-related cases because his wife, #GinniThomas, was involved in efforts to undo the results of the 2020 election & attended #Trump’s rally the morning of the Capitol attack.
#law
Canada looks better every day
“The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared skeptical of the Justice Department's position during oral arguments over whether a federal obstruction law can be used to prosecute some of the rioters [sic] involved in the #Jan6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.” #SCOTUS
Live updates: Supreme Court arguments on January 6 rioters case
The Supreme Court will consider whether part of a federal obstruction law can be used to prosecute some of the rioters involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Follow here for the latest live news updates.John Fritze, Paul LeBlanc, Isabelle D'Antonio and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN)
