Posted on 09/10/2021 4:49:22 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Even in this toxic political atmosphere, will American juries consent to criminalize previously lawful political protest in the nation’s capital?
More than eight months after the worst attack on Washington since the Civil War, as Joe Biden describes it, not a single American has been charged with sedition or treason related to the alleged “insurrection” on January 6, 2021.
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But the Justice Department’s premier felony charge—obstruction of an official proceeding—is on shaky legal ground, to say the least. It’s a substitute for the sedition cases they cannot prove in court.
Prosecutors have slapped the felony count, which is punishable by up to 20 years in jail, against at least 200 defendants, including mostly misdemeanor cases, in an attempt to turn Trump-supporting trespassers into convicted felons.
Several defendants, including Jacob Chansely, the so-called QAnon Shaman, and Paul Hodgkins have pleaded guilty to the charge; both will serve prison time even though neither man has a criminal record. (Chansley has been behind bars since January. Judge Royce Lamberth refuses to release Chansley from jail, despite pleas from his attorney that he suffers from mental health issues.)
The statute, which I explained in a March column, was passed by Congress in response to the Enron scandal. It’s a clause under 18 U.S. Code section 1512, which criminalizes attempts to tamper with a witness or evidence. When George W. Bush signed the “obstruction of an official proceeding” provision in 2002, he specifically warned the law should not infringe on “the constitutional right to petition the Government for redress of grievances.”
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I hope the whole orchestration of the government to cause Jan 6 comes out, but the judge will probably not allow that to happen.
The INSURRECTION was on November 3, 2020 at 0300 when the Democrats committed TREASON in collusion with the CCP to conduct an ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL election!
Then they orchestrated an Antifa/BLM intrusion into the Capital, shot a woman and blamed ordinary Americans who followed them in.
It was even organized by Antifa over the internet!
Dem LIARS need to hang!
It’s totally bogus.
They’ve all be punished more than they should have.
It’s political persecution.
Totalitarian stuff.
An unelected political party holding the White House hostage, are so afraid of their own shadows they jump ten feet up in the air, even arrest even groundhogs. This government knows they have no
legitimate claim to several senate seats and the presidency. They know the people know and they know how fragile democracy is now that they are replacing it with socialism - will America allow the DNC to Socialize America into another EU?
Our communist masters are on a roll...
Ioseb Dzhugashvili must be laughing in his special spot in hell...
His strategies, techniques, and, even, his creation & implementation of the concept called “disinformation” are proving themselves successful even here & now in this country...
Hundreds of non-criminals held in solitary for eight months and no reaction whatsoever from the american sheeple...
What a historical moral and national disgrace...
I could go on all night.
Bkmk DC
It seems a vague charge. This would include the waves of screaming screechers at the Kavanaugh hearings.
Lamberth is a traitor to reason and the rule of law. Benedict Arnold was less treacherous.
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