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noturtlesoup17 · 1 year

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With everything going on a Twitter, it seems like a good time to bring up my experience at January 6 again.

#january 6th #jan 6 capitol attack #us capitol riot #us politics #donald trump #rip twitter #fuck elon musk

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 1 year

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 9 months

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Barely a day after former President Donald Trump was indicted for the third time, some Senate Republicans are already trying to undermine the credibility of the federal judge who was randomly assigned to preside over his trial.

Here’s a detail they’re hoping you won’t notice: They unanimously voted to confirm her.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), speaking on his podcast on Wednesday, accused U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan of being “relentlessly hostile” to Trump and claimed that she has “a reputation for being far-left, even by D.C. District Court standards.”

But Cruz voted to put Chutkan into her seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June 2014. So did every other Senate Republican when she was unanimously confirmed, 95-0.

That includes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who nonsensically claimed Wednesday that “any conviction in D.C. against Donald Trump is not legitimate.”

“The judge in this case hates Trump,” Graham said in a Fox News interview. “You can convict Trump of kidnapping Lindbergh’s baby in D.C. You need to have a change of venue. We need a new judge. And we need to win in 2024 to stop this crazy crap.”

Aides to Cruz and Graham did not respond to requests for comment on how the senators square their votes to confirm Chutkan with their criticisms of her ability to be a fair judge.

Tuesday’s federal indictment of Trump accuses him of serious crimes related to the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

Chutkan, a Jamaica-born former assistant public defender and an appointee of former President Barack Obama, has already been overseeing cases related to the Jan. 6 attack. She’s handed out some of the most aggressive sentences yet to rioters who took part in the violence that day. Of the 11 cases that have come before her, she imposed tougher sentences than those sought by the Justice Department seven times and matched what the Justice Department was seeking four times, according to an Associated Press review.

In all 11 cases, Chutkan sentenced the defendants to prison time.

This is what is likely driving the GOP attacks on Chutkan: They know she’s not likely to go easy on Trump now.

Beyond trying to discredit the judge, some Republicans, like Graham, are parroting Trump’s absurd demand for a change of venue. The former president has called for moving his case to the “more diverse” and “politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia!” (Virginia and Maryland are much closer to D.C., for what it’s worth.)

Not a single Republican raised concerns about Chutkan during her nomination hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2014. In fact, only one GOP member of the committee even showed up to the hearing: Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), who was only there to rave about a separate Texas judicial nominee on the schedule. He left before Chutkan was up.

Cruz and Graham were both members of the committee at the time.

Neither attended Chutkan’s hearing.

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tomorrowusa · 3 months

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A federal judge sticks it to those who characterize January 6th defendants as "persecuted patriots" or "hostages".

Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia is a Republican who was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the federal bench in the 1980s. But Judge Lamberth has had it with defendants and others who attempt to portray January 6th criminals as martyrs.

This is an excerpt from Judge Lamberth's Notes for Resentencing (PDF) for defendant James Little dated January 25th.

The Court cannot condone the shameless attempts by Mr. Little or anyone else to misinterpret or misrepresent what happened. It cannot condone the notion that those who broke the law on January 6 did nothing wrong, or that those duly convicted with all the safeguards of the United States Constitution, including a right to trial by jury in felony cases, are political prisoners or hostages. So let me set the record straight, based on what I’ve learned presiding over many January 6 prosecutions, hearing from dozens of witnesses, watching hundreds of hours of video footage, and reading thousands of pages of evidence. On January 6, 2021, a mob of people invaded and occupied the United States Capitol, using force to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power mandated by the Constitution and our republican heritage. This was not a protest that got out of hand. It was a riot; in many respects a coordinated riot, as is clear from cases before me including Hostetter (21-cr-392) and Worrell (21-cr-292). “Protestors” would have simply shared their views on the election—as did thousands that day whon did not approach the Capitol. But those who breached and occupied the Capitol building and grounds halted the counting of the Electoral College votes required by the Twelfth Amendment. The rioters interfered with a necessary step in the constitutional process, disrupted the lawful transfer of power, and thus jeopardized the American constitutional order. Although the rioters failed in their ultimate goal, their actions nonetheless resulted in the deaths of multiple people, injury to over 140 members of law enforcement, and lasting trauma for our entire nation. This was not patriotism; it was the antithesis of patriotism. And the rioters achieved this result through force. Not everyone present that day was violent, but violence is what let them into the Capitol. At first, a police line protected the Capitol, but eventually law enforcement was subjected to such force by such a mass of people that the rioters pushed through. Upon entering the Capitol, many rioters vandalized and looted, some hunted for members of Congress.

This was a federal judge calling January 6th a "coordinated riot". We all know who was the mastermind of that riot.

#assault on the us capitol by pro-trump terrorists #january 6th #attempted coup #donald trump #lock him up #instigating a riot #the rule of law #royce c. lamberth #us district court for the district of columbia #james little #election 2024

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newsrepertoire · 1 year

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I wonder if House Republicans will commemorate the two year anniversary of a failed fascist coup by still failing to get a Speaker elected

#us news #u.s. news #us politics #u.s. politics #us house of representatives #u.s. house of representatives #house speaker #speaker of the house #kevin mccarthy #january 6 #jan. 6 #jan. 6 insurrection #january 6 insurrection #capitol riot

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nando161mando · 7 months

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Well that's not very alpha.

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contemplatingoutlander · 2 years

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IT’S BEEN A SURREAL TIME: The January 6th insurrection in Escher’s hand

Recently, it feels to me like we in the U.S. are living in a Kafka novel. I’m watching as a large number of my fellow Americans seem to be ready to tear down our democratic republic to install the racist, sexist, lying, bullying, traitorous Trump as a dictator for life.🤦🏻‍♀️

As outlined by the January 6th committee, the Capitol riot was the logical conclusion of a slow moving coup attempted by Trump and certain members of the GOP in the hopes of overturning the 2020 election. All based on Trump’s false claims that the election was “rigged.”

And yet a large number of Americans don’t seem to care and Fox News’ main cable outlet actually not only refused to broadcast the January 6th committee’s first prime-time session on the Capitol riot, they reportedly used it’s prime time lineup to offer a “commercial-free rebuttal” of the committee’s findings.

Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow must be turning in their graves!

Consequently, when I saw a segment of the video (taken from the USCH01 Crypt South CAM) that the January 6th committee played during their June 9th prime-time session ...

I couldn’t resist pairing it with this surrealist, colorized print of M.C. Escher’s January 1935 lithograph of “Hand with reflecting sphere” (”Self-portrait in spherical mirror”):

After all, surreal times call for surreal images.

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Manipulated gif/print sources (before edits): 01 + 02 Walter Cronkite photo from CBS Photo Archive / Getty via The New Yorker Edward R. Murrow photo via The Standard

#jan 6th #insurrection #trump #us politics #jan 6th committee's first prime-time session on the capitol riot #m c escher #hand with reflecting sphere #self-portrait in spherical mirror #surrealistic times #walter cronkite #edward r murrow #fox news #my gifs #my manips #my edits

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jonostroveart · 1 year

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#political satire #editorial cartoons #politics #political cartoon #mike pence #pence #house flies #jack smith #subpoenas #subpoena #jan 6 capitol riot investigation #jan 6 2021 #us politics #insurrection

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quotesfromall · 8 months

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Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any Court, or place out of Congress, and the members of congress shall be protected in their persons from arrests and imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from, and attendance on congress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace.

John Dickinson, Articles of Confederation

#trump #impeachment #january 6 #capitol riot #john dickinson #dickinson #1776 #dickinson 1776 #articles of confederation #us history

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msfangirlgonewild · 2 years

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HA! I can’t wait and watch what happens…

#january 6 committee #trump is the enemy of the people #washington dc #us capitol riots #post january 6 #incitement of insurrection

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noturtlesoup17 · 1 year

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Guess I should do an introduction over here. My name is Amanda and I went undercover in the far right for a year. I have released some writing and audio, and I've got a big article coming out soon. Ask me anything!

#fuck maga #2022 midterms #fuck qanon #trumplicans #vote blue #antifascism #mike lindell #mypillow #democracy #prodemocracy #us politics #us capitol riot

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 2 years

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 9 months

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By Josh Marshall

I want to return to this revelatory interview with coconspirator John Eastman, the last portion of which was published Thursday by Tom Klingenstein, the Chairman of the Trumpite Claremont Institute and then highlighted by our Josh Kovensky. There’s a lot of atmospherics in this interview, a lot of bookshelf-lined tweedy gentility mixed with complaints about OSHA regulations and Drag Queen story hours. But the central bit comes just over half way through the interview when Eastman gets into the core justification and purpose for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election and overthrow the constitutional order itself. He invokes the Declaration of Independence and says quite clearly that yes, we were trying to overthrow the government and argues that they were justified because of the sheer existential threat America was under because of the election of Joe Biden.

Jan 6th conspirators have spent more than two years claiming either that nothing really happened at all in the weeks leading up to January 6th or that it was just a peaceful protest that got a bit out of hand or that they were just making a good faith effort to follow the legal process. Eastman cuts through all of this and makes clear they were trying to overthrow (“abolish”) the government; they were justified in doing so; and the warrant for their actions is none other than the Declaration of Independence itself.

“Our Founders lay this case out,” says Eastman. “There’s actually a provision in the Declaration of Independence that a people will suffer abuses while they remain sufferable, tolerable while they remain tolerable. At some point abuses become so intolerable that it becomes not only their right but their duty to alter or abolish the existing government.”

“So that’s the question,” he tells Klingenstein. “Have the abuses or the threat of abuses become so intolerable that we have to be willing to push back?”

The answer for Eastman is clearly yes and that’s his justification for his and his associates extraordinary actions.

Let’s dig in for a moment to what this means because it’s a framework of thought or discourse that was central to many controversies in the first decades of the American Republic. The Declaration of Independence has no legal force under American law. It’s not a legal document. It’s a public explanation of a political decision: to break the colonies’ allegiance to Great Britain and form a new country. But it contains a number of claims and principles that became and remain central to American political life.

The one Eastman invokes here is the right to overthrow governments. The claim is that governments have no legitimacy or authority beyond their ability to serve the governed. Governments shouldn’t be overthrown over minor or transitory concerns. But when they become truly oppressive people have a right to get rid of them and start over. This may seem commonsensical to us. But that’s because we live a couple centuries downstream of these events and ideas. Governments at least in theory are justified by how they serve their populations rather than countries being essentially owned by the kings or nobilities which rule them.

But this is a highly protean idea. Who gets to decide? Indeed this question came up again and again over the next century each time the young republic faced a major political crisis, whether it was in the late 1790s, toward the end of the War of 1812, in 1832-33 or finally during the American Civil War. If one side didn’t get its way and wanted out what better authority to cite than the Declaration of Independence? There is an obvious difference but American political leaders needed a language to describe it. What they came up with is straightforward. It’s the difference between a constitutional or legal right and a revolutionary one. Abraham Lincoln was doing no more than stating a commonplace when he said this on the eve of the Civil War in his first inaugural address (emphasis added): “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”

In other words, yes, you have a revolutionary right to overthrow the government if you really think its abuses have gotten that intractable and grave. But the government has an equal right to stop you, to defend itself or, as we see today, put you on trial if you fail. The American revolutionaries of 1776 knew full well that they were committing treason against the British monarchy. If they lost they would all hang. They accepted that. They didn’t claim that George III had no choice but to let them go.

From the beginning the Trump/Eastman coup plotters have tried to wrap their efforts in legal processes and procedures. It was their dissimulating shield to hide the reality of their coup plot and if needed give them legal immunity from the consequences. The leaders of the secession movement tried the same thing in 1861.

In a way I admire Eastman for coming clean. I don’t know whether he sees the writing on the wall and figures he might as well lay his argument out there or whether his grad school political theory pretensions and pride got the better of him and led him to state openly this indefensible truth. Either way he’s done it and not in any way that’s retrievable as a slip of the tongue. They knew it was a coup and they justified it to themselves in those terms. He just told us. They believed they were justified in trying to overthrow the government, whether because of OSHA chair size regulations or drag queens or, more broadly, because the common herd of us don’t understand the country’s “founding principles” the way Eastman and his weirdo clique do. But they did it. He just admitted it. And now they’re going to face the consequences.

#us politics #news #talking points memo #2023 #op eds #Tom Klingenstein #Claremont Institute #john eastman #Josh Kovensky #Josh Marshall #jan 6 investigation #jan 6 insurrection #domestic terrorism #treason #traitors #donald trump #capitol riot investigation #Declaration of Independence

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corporationsarepeople · 2 years

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#john eastman #jan 6 capitol riot investigation #trump #us politics #republicans

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allthebrazilianpolitics · 2 years

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Eduardo Bolsonaro may be included in investigations into the attack on the Capitol

Federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) can be included in the investigations carried out by the special committee of the United States House on the invasion of the Capitol, on January 6, 2021, by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, which left people dead and injured.

US deputy Jamie Raskin spoke of the inclusion of the Brazilian parliamentarian, the 3rd son of President Jair Bolsonaro, to a Brazilian delegation that is in Washington, the US capital, where the Capitol, the seat of the US Congress, is located.

According to the report of participants at the meeting, Raskin was surprised to learn that Eduardo Bolsonaro was in the American capital days before the invasion of Congress and met with people close to Trump.

Raskin told the Brazilian group that one of the lines of investigation carried out by Congress into the invasion should now involve the international connections of the American extreme right. Thus, Eduardo’s case may be included among the topics to be analyzed shortly by the committee.

#brazil #democracy #politics #us capitol riots 2021 #brazilian politics #united states #us politics #international politics #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

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cosmo-naute · 1 year

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@ my Brazilian followers, stay safe!

#Bolsonaro supporters are storming the government buildings #guess one of US’s exports is alt-right capitol riots now☹️#Brazil #bolsonaro

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