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Judge slams the Justice Department as he 'reluctantly' dismisses final January 6 riot case
CNN via MSN ^ | Aug. 4, 2026 | Holmes Lybrand

Posted on 08/05/2026 8:26:34 AM PDT by libstripper

A federal judge slammed the Justice Department as he “reluctantly” dismissed the seditious conspiracy case against leaders and members of the Oath Keepers in the final January 6 US Capitol riot case.

“This is the last of the prosecutions seeking to hold accountable those responsible for the events of January 6,” Judge Amit Mehta wrote in his order dismissing cases against nine people in which he recounted the events of that day. “That book is now closed.”

“Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power – to buckle,” Mehta wrote. “The court cannot write a different ending.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dismissal; j6; mehta; trump

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I weep with my smallest violin for this evil judge and the Biden horror that perperated this frightful injustice.
1 posted on 08/05/2026 8:26:34 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

You mean the judge is mad because we have to follow the law? That’s like a preacher being mad because the Bible commands things he doesn’t want to do.

Oh wait a minute, there’s a lot of those too


2 posted on 08/05/2026 8:28:54 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: libstripper

Foreign judge who hates America and Americans. The injustice is it is a life appointment.


3 posted on 08/05/2026 8:29:17 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: libstripper

No bias there huh judge.

Sure sounds like you already prejudged those defendants and had them guilty in your mind without the bother of a trial.

This just reinforces that fact the DOJ pursued dismissal as the morally and ethically right thing to do. It is obvious you already had them convicted before any trial.


4 posted on 08/05/2026 8:36:52 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: libstripper
"Judge" Amit Mehta

In America? Really? What the flock happened? Did American run out of American "judges"? The refugee freeloaders have taken America's Congress and "courts" without firing a shot. They are using their retarded eyebrow likers like Luigi to do their bidding for them.

5 posted on 08/05/2026 8:37:40 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Gen Zers are the same mental midgets who ate Tide pods as toddlers.)
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Another judge self-identiifes as ripe for impeachment and removal from the bench, asap.


6 posted on 08/05/2026 8:41:38 AM PDT by curious7
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To: libstripper
January 6th is now just a footnote and an brain aneurysm for those with TDS.
7 posted on 08/05/2026 8:44:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: libstripper
A federal judge slammed the Justice Department as he “reluctantly” dismissed the seditious conspiracy case

A judge who doesn't like following the law should be removed from the bench.

8 posted on 08/05/2026 8:56:27 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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To: libstripper

How many of the antifa/occupy people went to prison?


9 posted on 08/05/2026 8:59:28 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: libstripper

Still waiting for the new J-6 Committee that we were told would try the original J-6 Committee.


10 posted on 08/05/2026 9:08:27 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (It's around here somewhere...)
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To: libstripper

Constitutional Amendment XXXVVVIII all judges must have been born in the USA.


11 posted on 08/05/2026 9:10:09 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Elaine Luria, part of the original J6 Kangaroo Court is running for her old seat again.

The problem is the R she is running against, Jen Kiggans , is a Deep State can do no wrong R.

These two are identical in thoughts and deeds.


12 posted on 08/05/2026 9:12:07 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: libstripper
Amit Mehta

Call ICE and demand deportation of this foreign communist scumbag...

13 posted on 08/05/2026 9:17:35 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: 1Old Pro

You forgot “fine people”.


14 posted on 08/05/2026 9:18:48 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

15 posted on 08/05/2026 9:20:06 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: libstripper

Everything I have read today that involves a court decision seems to involve a judge with a suspiciously foreign sounding name.


16 posted on 08/05/2026 9:25:01 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: libstripper

the same judge would release leftists rioters that were burning downtowns with a slap on a wrist so fast they could rejoin the riots still in progress!


17 posted on 08/05/2026 9:51:54 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: libstripper

Guy needs to go to Saturday school.

We are a Republic


18 posted on 08/05/2026 9:53:45 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: libstripper

A judge forced to follow the law. 😭


19 posted on 08/05/2026 10:16:05 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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