Posted on 11/29/2020 12:51:08 PM PST by ransomnote
WASHINGTON – Since May 2020, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has charged more than 156 individuals for protest-related violence, marking the highest number of people charged in any federal district in the United States.
These cases include Brennan Sermon, who was charged with assaulting a police officer who was responding to assist officers protecting Senator Rand Paul on August 28, 2020; six people who were charged for their role in inciting violence and destroying federal monuments in Lafayette Square on June 22, 2020; and 20 people who have been charged with assaults on civilians and police officers. Additionally, an individual who defaced the Lincoln Monument on May 30, 2020, was criminally charged with Destruction of Government Property.
“Freedom of expression and the ability to openly voice dissent remains the bedrock of our democracy. As we have unfortunately witnessed in the District of Columbia over the past several months, scores of individuals have committed criminal acts upon innocent people and property under the guise of free expression. This will not be condoned,” stated Michael R. Sherwin, the Acting United Stated Attorney for the District of Columbia.
“Nevertheless, this office will only prosecute individuals or groups of individuals when enough evidence exists to both identify and criminally charge bad actors and it will never waiver in meeting that burden as the law requires.”
Investigations are on-going and robust. The Metropolitan Police Department, in conjunction with federal law enforcement partners, continue to analyze and investigate these criminal actors to ensure we understand if there is an organized architecture among suspected actors that enable such criminal behavior. Their tireless efforts on this front will not end.
“”in any federal district in the United States.””
And how many of those do we have in the US?
“”in any federal district in the United States.””
And how many of those do we have in the US?
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I think there are around 98. Each district accommodates a certain max population so CA has 4 districts while CO has 1.
What comprises a “federal district?” I’ve never heard of such a description and I’ve been around a long, long time.
This explains squat....I take it to mean “judicial” - relating to courts but there has to be a simpler definition of what a federal district is; “control of “A” federal government means what? My inclination is to “skip it” and move on....
“”A federal district is a type of administrative division of a federation, usually under the direct control of a federal government and organized sometimes with a single municipal body. Federal districts often include capital districts, and they exist in various federations worldwide.””
WAVER. sheesh. Another Freudian slip?
OK - I’m moving on now..still don’t know and don’t care. As I thought “judicial” in nature and only one federal district...
https://wiki2.org/en/Federal_district
United States
The seat of the U.S. federal government in Washington is located in a federal district called the District of Columbia. Other federally administered areas that are within one of the 50 states, but not under its jurisdiction, are called federal enclaves.
Additionally, the U.S. federal court system divides each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico into one or more federal judicial districts. A United States district court and a bankruptcy court are located in each. There are also regional federal judicial circuits, each consisting of a group of states (except for the District of Columbia Circuit, which consists of the federal district, and the Federal Circuit, whose jurisdiction is based on specific subject matter instead of geography); Puerto Rico and the United States territorial courts are also assigned to circuits. Each circuit has a United States court of appeals.
That link is to US Attorneys - and doesn’t speak of “federal district” - I guess that’s up to interpretation by the individual. I was just curious when I read it as I’d never heard anything referred to that way before but it did reinforce my thinking that it’s all judicial related..-not anything the federal government regulates.
As to US Attorneys, in my book they are about as useless as Inspectors General in all the agencies in DC...They always remind me of the old TV commercials - don’t see them anymore - where a bank guard or pest control salesman says in effect “I don’t actually do anything. I’m just here to observe.”
That’s what US Attorneys are. They investigate, write reports and disappear from the scene until they’re needed the next time to investigate and write a report. NOTHING ever happens to correct what they were investigating. But they get a paycheck for investigating and writing that report...Horowitz was the IG for what agency (?) - and did we ever get any resolution after his work - I think it was regarding the FBI and the Russian flap? Nope - got the report tho’....
I remember the US Attorney who prosecuted Scooter Libby falsely; in that case something WAS done even if it was wrong, and the one in Sacramento (Walpin) who actually did do his job and got fired as it involved a friend of obozo and that flake with the funny sounding name in the Southern District of NY..the one Trump fired - rightly so...
That’s it - just curiosity that prompted my question.
Shocked!!!
Still time for the Department Of Declined Prosecutions to plea it all out to jaywalking, though.
Shocked!!!
Still time for the Department Of Declined Prosecutions to plea it all out to jaywalking, though.
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Not likely you’ll get your wish. I think that enough house cleaning has happened in recent months for us to start seeing more successful prosecutions and sentences.
Sentences themselves were watered down by the deep state but I saw that President Trump had recently made 5 appointments to the panel that determines sentencing so those should improve too. MAGA.
That link is to US Attorneys - and doesn’t speak of “federal district” - I guess that’s up to interpretation by the individual. I was just curious when I read it as I’d never heard anything referred to that way before but it did reinforce my thinking that it’s all judicial related..-not anything the federal government regulates.
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The link for “federal attorneys” does speak to districts so it’s not open to interpretation.
The first line of text on that page follows. “Below is a listing of current United States Attorneys for all 94 districts.”
The link itself is housed on the DOJ website and the attorney’s listed are appointed to office by the sitting president.
As to US Attorneys, in my book they are about as useless as Inspectors General in all the agencies in DC...They always remind me of the old TV commercials - don’t see them anymore - where a bank guard or pest control salesman says in effect “I don’t actually do anything. I’m just here to observe.”
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That’s still true for Bush, Obama and Clinton holdovers. President Trump has been making appointments since he took office and DC appears to be improving since May 2020 when he made an “Acting Attorney General” there. I’ve seen appointments to lawless areas and am seeing more reasonable arrests/indictments of criminals there. Still more to go though.
Horowitz was the IG for what agency (?) - and did we ever get any resolution after his work - I think it was regarding the FBI and the Russian flap? Nope - got the report tho’....
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PResident Trump’s strategy involves waiting while they expose themselves to the public and then winning election before handling the disruption planned for when Horowitz, Durham etc. surface their investigations/grand jury indictments.
I remember the US Attorney who prosecuted Scooter Libby falsely; in that case something WAS done even if it was wrong, and the one in Sacramento (Walpin) who actually did do his job and got fired as it involved a friend of obozo and that flake with the funny sounding name in the Southern District of NY..the one Trump fired - rightly so...
That’s it - just curiosity that prompted my question.
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And possibly Blagovitch. And certainly Flynn. There are corrupt hold overs and the public is witnessing their antics in real time. That way the MSM won’t succeed in convincing the public that Trump’s admin was just going after those traitors in the Justice department as a means of protecting himself from arrest (yes -t hey really talk that way in swamps like DU).
Definitely Blago - same US Attorney, wasn’t it? I read a book about him and he was persecuted and went to prison for things he THOUGHT about doing. He may have been a weird duck but if that’s a crime, why are there so many others walking around free - namely - in DC?
IL is really a corrupt state - how did it happen that voter fraud didn’t pop up there this time? It definitely did in 1960 but Nixon didn’t contest it. I remember it well - ashamed to say I voted dimocrat then!!!
Look WHAT that state gave us - the obozos!!! UGH!
Oh! I dislike so being skeptical and cynical but I sure hope you’re right...
Thanks - remember when all US Attorneys were fired by Clinton at the beginning of his term and then GWB fired a handful and got flak...Hey - it was a long time ago and so much has taken place since then and I may not remember accurately the circumstances but it was SOP to let them all go at the beginning of a new president’s term in office. I don’t recall if they were all let go with obozo’s term or Trump’s but I don’t believe so. I don’t remember controversy about it or the MSM getting it so wrong!
Yes. And it has occurred to me that we are watching as a bunch of crooked judges are being allowed to expose their treason, the violation of their oath, right out in front of God and everybody.
Those state and federal judges, along with the crooked governors, secretaries of state, election officials, and other such, elected or appointed, had to take that same oath to “protect and defend the US Constitution”.
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It does seem to be part of Trump’s continuing strategy.
If he didn’t draw traitors out (judges, congressmen, military) out into the open first, then the screams for patriots to rise and fight president trump, along with Pelosi’s screams for UN troops to activate in the US would be sincere when Trump moved against American traitors.
Otherwise, all the public would hear from the MSM, international heads of state, and American officials was that Trump abruptly arrested judges, lawyers, congressmen, charitable organization heads, CEO’s, Bankers, entertainers etc. to protect himself in a standard overthrow of a nation into dictatorship. Oh, and he couldn’t tell us the reasons for that series of actions because it would be a threat to national security.
Since his strategy has been to drive them to expose themselves while at the same time maximize public safety, I believe they are draining as much as possible now before it becomes “necessary” to arrest certain strategic groups at once. Lots of arrests of gangs in DOJ right now; the DS milias.
I got curious and comparisons links. Apparently there are such things as “federal enclaves”, with people residing in them, and they are not subject to the state they may be located in. For the most part they are things like military bases and such, but I came across one interesting case:
Evans v. Cornman
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/398/419/
It involved land purchased by the National Institutes of Health, where the NIH constructed housing for staff. While the staff is subject to state payroll tax, the housing is not subject to real estate or school taxes.
I’m thinking there may be a number of such enclaves.
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