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Trump can be sued for Jan 6, Justice Department says
Associated Press ^ | 03/02/2023 | Eric Tucker and Alanna Richer

Posted on 03/02/2023 12:24:37 PM PST by thegagline

Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said Thursday in a federal court case testing Trump’s legal vulnerability and the limits of executive power.

The department wrote that although a president enjoys broad legal latitude to communicate to the public on matters of concern, “no part of a President’s official responsibilities includes the incitement of imminent private violence. By definition, such conduct plainly falls outside the President’s constitutional and statutory duties.” *** The Justice Department wrote that it also takes no view on a lower court judge’s conclusion that those who sued Trump have “plausibly” alleged that his speech caused the riot. Nevertheless, the department said that an appeals court should reject Trump’s claim that he’s immune from the lawsuits.

The Justice Department cautioned that the “court must take care not to adopt rules that would unduly chill legitimate presidential communication” or saddle a president with meritless lawsuits.

“In exercising their traditional communicative functions, Presidents routinely address controversial issues that are the subject of passionate feelings. Presidents may at times use strong rhetoric. And some who hear that rhetoric may overreact, or even respond with violence,” the department wrote.

*** U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Trump’s words during a rally before the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol were likely “words of incitement not protected by the First Amendment.”

The lawsuits, filed by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby, and later joined by other House Democrats, argue that Trump and others made “false and incendiary allegations of fraud and theft, and in direct response to the Defendant’s express calls for violence at the rally, a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol.”

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To: thegagline

“The standard of proof is much lower in a tort action than a criminal one.”

No, no. Standard of proof has to go further than an accusation, and that is all they have.


41 posted on 03/02/2023 1:14:23 PM PST by odawg
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To: thegagline

It took two people to write this thing -

Can you even begin to imagine the vacuousness of their existence?

crushing


42 posted on 03/02/2023 1:14:48 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: teeman8r

“ get them investigated”

Then you should have been in Phoenix, Madison, Lansing, Harrisburg and Atlanta. Those were the only places with any authority over your issue.


43 posted on 03/02/2023 1:15:34 PM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: thegagline

If this ever goes to trial, it will be before a DC jury.

Thus, they are not worried about this precedent being used against them in the future.


44 posted on 03/02/2023 1:16:38 PM PST by Tipllub
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To: thegagline

Sued for what?


45 posted on 03/02/2023 1:20:00 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: thegagline
I was talking, online, to a Russian girl when this all went down.

She asked what happened.

I said that I wasn't sure.

She said " Why didn't you finish the job? Everyone knows your election was stolen."

46 posted on 03/02/2023 1:20:25 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: odawg
“The standard of proof is much lower in a tort action than a criminal one.”
No, no. Standard of proof has to go further than an accusation, and that is all they have.

The standard of proof for a tort is usually preponderance of evidence or under certain circumstances clear and convincing. The standard of proof for a crime case conviction is beyond a reasonable doubt.

47 posted on 03/02/2023 1:20:26 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: Ge0ffrey

sued for what..
for being trump of course!


48 posted on 03/02/2023 1:25:19 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: thegagline

“Trump can be sued for Jan 6, Justice Department says”

Trump can be sued for Jan 6, Injustice Department says

There, fixed it


49 posted on 03/02/2023 1:31:09 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Rummyfan

There’s only one Presidential election in the Constitution. It happens in December since 1936.

There are 538 voters. In 2020, 306 of them voted for Biden (and Harris), and they were elected.

You are quite correct that the correct locations for investigating and protesting were Phoenix, Madison, Lansing, Harrisburg, and Atlanta. There is no one and nothing in Washington DC that had anything to do with any of this.

After extensive debates at the Philadelphia convention, the Founders decided that the States would appoint the President (by appointing Electors), and they rejected any role for the sitting President or for Congress (except on the event of a tie or 3+ way split). The Supreme Court did not come up in the debates (and is not mentioned in the Federalist papers) because the Founders could not have imagined the States united and exercising self-government turning to courts to approve of their self-rule.


50 posted on 03/02/2023 1:31:44 PM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: Eagles6

There is no “ your election”.

There are 51 popular vote elections which are separate from each other and are carried out in each State exercising its sovereignty (and in DC regarding the 3 electors the States unwisely granted to Congress in 1960).


51 posted on 03/02/2023 1:34:42 PM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: logi_cal869
Two thoughts on this issue: Firstly, Trump's lawyers would love the opportunity Discovery would allow them to publicly release information Democrats have been suppressing. Trump's lawyers would be able to question Pelosi, the Capital police, the FBI, and others involved in the January 6th incident.

Secondly, this would open Pandora’s Box on all Public officials and their administrations. Citizens would now be able to sue city mayors and others for such issues as crimes committed by protesters and the police. Citizens could also possibly sue the FBI and CIA for crimes that were committed.
Proof of a direct correlation between public officials the said crimes would not need to exist.

52 posted on 03/02/2023 1:36:51 PM PST by RowdyRoo (There only three types of people, those that can count and those that can't.)
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To: RowdyRoo

Exactly.


53 posted on 03/02/2023 1:39:26 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: thegagline

President Trump still terrifies the left and the deep state


54 posted on 03/02/2023 1:49:53 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: thegagline

was Nancy not the one what turned town Trump’s request for more security???

she her...


55 posted on 03/02/2023 1:50:18 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: RowdyRoo
If the trial court refuses a qualified immunity defense, it is not a binding precedent. Trial court decisions are never binding precedent. If it then goes to a circuit court of appeals and that ruling is affirmed, the ruling becomes precedent only within that circuit. If it is overruled, then it isn't precedent anywhere. If it goes to the USSC and the decision is affirmed, it becomes nationwide federal court precedent. If the Supremes overrule it, it is not precedent anywhere

Until it is precedent, zero courts have to follow the decision or its reasoning.

56 posted on 03/02/2023 1:55:59 PM PST by jpp113
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To: RowdyRoo

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57 posted on 03/02/2023 1:58:24 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: thegagline

More bullsh!t!


58 posted on 03/02/2023 1:58:52 PM PST by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31 )
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To: Chode
was Nancy not the one what turned town Trump’s request for more security???

Trump’s legal team should thrid party her in the case. That would be epic.

59 posted on 03/02/2023 2:01:03 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: Fury

Oh shut up. Trump probably didn’t see you wonderful post.


60 posted on 03/02/2023 2:05:56 PM PST by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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