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The federal Department of Justice (DOJ) has dismissed cases for 31 ANTIFA thugs who were charged with crimes related to rioting in Portland, Ore.Four defendants who were charged with felony assault of a federal officer had those charges dropped. More than half of the charges were “dropped with prejudice,” meaning that those cases cannot under any circumstances be brought up again in court.Billy Williams, the U.S. Attorney for Oregon, claimed at the time there would be severe consequences against ANTIFA terrorists who committed wanton acts of destruction outside of the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse throughout the summer of...

Oregon's U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams told The Oregonian over the weekend that Portland officials were engaged in "nonsensical, political theater" by banning city police from working with federal law enforcement and swore that the federal government would not be abandoning any of the federal buildings in the city. "Anyone who thinks we’re just going to give up the courthouse, Hatfield, Pioneer (Courthouse) or any other federal facility downtown, that’s not going to happen," Williams said in the interview, according to the paper. "We’re not leaving." For two full months, protesters have demonstrated nightly outside Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse,...

Welcome and lets start with what happened 50 years ago this month when there was warning from a Western American Bozeman, Montana's Chet Huntley about a big government bureaucracy in our country. Huntley was leaving the anchor desk at NBC News seeing a divided America where he didn't wish to choose sides but wished to stand on principle.... "these labels that get thrown around they're unfortunate because I look at myself and I don't know where I an in terms of conservative and liberal....my attitudes towards the federal government, the federal structure, I'm disenchanted like so many other Americans with...

U.S. Attorney Billy Williams said Friday he wants an investigation into actions of federal officers who have pulled Portland protesters off the street and into unmarked vehicles. Federal officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection have come under significant scrutiny after OPB first reported Thursday that they were involved in constitutionally questionable arrests in Portland. The officers, along with employees of the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Protective Service, have had an increased presence in the city as protests over police brutality have continued for more than six weeks. "Based on news accounts circulating that allege federal law enforcement...

"Prosecutors are seeking extra time for Patrick's leadership role and his possession of a gun on the refuge and a terrorism enhancement for the conspiracy conviction." Maxine Bernstein "Oregon Live" Story 2/14/2018 Sentencing for Jason Patrick is set before US District Judge Anna J. Brown in Portland this morning at 9 am. Jason Patrick was convicted in the second rigged Oregon Standoff trial last year of conspiracy to impede federal workers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. US District Judge Anna J. Brown limited defense lawyers ability to present a case to the jury on felony charges and held a...

A jury returned guilty verdicts Friday on at least one felony charge against each of the four defendants...... Defense lawyers immediately decried the convictions of the more minor players as a miscarriage of justice when the ringleaders got off last fall..... "So who's getting Tased?" blurted Matthew Schindler, adefense lawyer from the first trial who sat in the back of the courtroom, referencing the bizzare end to last fall's trial when marshals tackled and used a Taser stun gun on Ammon Bundy's lawyer.,,,, Oregon's U.S. Attorney Billy Williams declared "justice has been served"....... "Just about everybody would agree if you...