Posted on 03/28/2021 5:16:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Two weeks ago, I wrote of the Department of Justice’s overreach respecting some of the hundreds of January 6 defendants. On Friday the D.C. Circuit clipped the department’s wings. I expect more such losses as time goes on and the Department must actually present evidence in contested trials.
The ploy of keeping in D.C. jails without bail some of the protestors who engaged in no specific violent acts at the Capitol until their cases can be heard was very obviously designed to compel them to plea bargain so they could return home to their families and jobs, and the three-judge panel wasn’t buying it. If you think that there is a partisan tinge to their decision, you’d be wrong, Judge Robert Wilkins was confirmed under Barack Obama; Judge Judith Rogers under Bill Clinton, and Judge George Katsas under Donald Trump. It was bipartisan.
The case made it to the Circuit Court upon appeal from a detention order by Judge Royce Lamberth (a senior judge first appointed to the bench by then-president Ronald Reagan). I mention the judicial appointment history of these judges as an antidote to the all-too-common implications that judges are always using the law to cover their personal political beliefs. Sometimes it appears they do. Other times -- like this one -- they are honestly applying the Constitution and law to the facts.
And they do so here in what was clearly the Department of Justice’s political effort to paint with a broad brush anyone who supported Trump on January 6 and to place unreasonable and unlawful burdens on those protestors in order to bolster overcharged crimes.
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Remember, democrat party voters demand that government harass, tax extra, threaten, jail, and even murder the democrat voter’s enemies. Keep in mind that the jailing of protesters for not committing a crime is exactly what democrat voters want and demand from government.
The Justice department is full of nasty, lying, hateful lawyers. God help anyone who gets in their cross hairs.
Munchel lawfully possessed several firearms in his home, but he took none into the Capitol. Munchel Mag. Tr. at 179,
182. Indeed, before entering the Capitol, Munchel and Eisenhart stashed a knife inside a backpack that they left outside, precisely for fear of ending up in “federal prison.” See Munchel, 2021 WL 620236, at *2.
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But, but, but... wasn’t this an ‘insurrection’? An insurrection where guns were left at home?
Some people are learning now what various people ranging from Nigel Farage to Ammon Bundy have told us.
The Justice Department tactic to maintain a 98 percent conviction rate is to overcharge people forcing them to plea bargain and be found guilty of something and do some time.
The other option hire expensive lawyers to fight the charges in court.
Similar to the same BS Reyna did to those at the Twin Peaks debacle.
The Justice Department tactic to maintain a 98 percent conviction rate is to overcharge people forcing them to plea bargain and be found guilty of something and do some time.
The other option hire expensive lawyers to fight the charges in court.
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The corrupt FBI has been employing this tactic for a long time. Keep the person in jail without bail. Pyscologically torture and threaten them to confess to a crime they didn’t commit.
The FBI is nothing more than a thug gang enforcement arm of the Dems, meting out beatdowns to political opponents. They’ll fabricate evidence, torture, and destroy anyone who gets in their way. Meanwhile, they’re oblivious to actual crimes even when warned prior to the event (Parkland, Boston Marathon bombing, Pulse Nightclub, San Bernardino).
So are the prosecutors on the hook for violating these people’s Civil rights?
Now just maybe these judges understand the horror that awaits if the government continues on this path unchecked. I truly hope that is the case.
In other words, the district court judge was too stupid and lazy to search for facts.
These people don't stand a chance with a DC jury.Their only hopes are a bench trial or the appeals courts.
Reyna mention, activate “IB4TG”.
How well I remember the Lois Learner (led) campaign against the surging Tea Party movement in Obama's Administration! She sleeps happy at night to this day as she was never hurt more than a scolding for the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt) attack on conservative-oriented 501.3 applications! Truly a swamp victory!
What goes around comes around. We will use actual laws and the Constitution however. And penalties.
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