Posted on 12/29/2021 11:13:50 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Judge rules against Proud Boys using First Amendment defense in Jan. 6 case
A federal judge emphatically rejected the claim by four members of the white nationalist Proud Boys that they were only exercising their First Amendment rights by attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said on Tuesday that the extremists are facing felony charges because they allegedly led a violent effort to overturn the presidential election not for speaking out against supposed election fraud as they claimed.
“Defendants are not, as they argue, charged with anything like burning flags, wearing black armbands, or participating in mere sit-ins or protests,” Kelly wrote in a 43-page opinion.
“Quite obviously, there were many avenues for Defendants to express their opinions about the 2020 presidential election, or their views about how Congress should perform its constitutional duties on January 6, without resorting to the conduct with which they have been charged,” added Kelly, who was appointed by President Trump.
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$bm/pantyfuh? crickets................................
But when BLM riots, it’s peaceful protest.
“Timothy James Kelly is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated to the court by President Donald Trump (R) on June 7, 2017”
The real crime is supporting Trump, but that doesn’t look good in print.
This is the McConnell stooge who restored Jim “Accoster Jimmy” Acosta’s press access to the White Hospice.
He's one of McConnell's Federalist Society stooges. Confirmed 94 to 2.
The First Amendment ONLY applies to leftist Communists, dontcha know????
We are not a nation of laws.
We are a nation of lawyers.
Lawyers work for whoever they think is paying them.
What actual violence did they do?
Well, they beat up that woman wearing a MAGA in the tunnel, and shot an unarmed young woman.
Oh, wait - that was Nanzi's jackboots who did those things...
to the conduct with which they have been charged,”
trespassing
maybe they can claim it was ‘performance art’
Yes or no -
WERE they charged with insurrection?
This was the group organised by a black guy who later turned out to be an FBI informant?
And the FBI’s attack maker Ray Epps?????
“U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said on Tuesday that the extremists are facing felony charges because they allegedly led a violent effort to overturn the presidential election not for speaking out against supposed election fraud as they claimed.”
Guilty without it even being proved.
The people actually leading the violence turned out to be Government officials. All caught on video. Yet they are not even charged.
These precedents will come in handy one day, when its leftists standing in the docket. And they will be.
No bias in this reporting. Nope, none at all.
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