Obstructed View
Yesterday began arguments over the very broad use of obstruction which prosecutors used to charge Jan 6 defendants. Jeffrey Greene who is representing Joseph Fischer has argued that the "obstruction law" which the DOJ used as a huge net to ensnare all the protestors and may even ensnare former President Trump.
Prosecutors have applied a 2002 law adopted in the wake of a financial scandal so broadly that even peaceful protesters could face 20 years in prison if the government's interpretation is allowed to stand, Jeffrey Green, a lawyer for Jan. 6 defendant Joseph Fischer , told the court.
Green urged the justices to interpret the law narrowly, applying it only to the destruction of documents , and to avoid turning “a catchall provision into a dragnet.”
Supreme Court grapples with limits on obstruction charge in Jan. 6 cases (yahoo.com)
The DOJ's solicitor General argued that the obstruction law's limits are clear, noting that three-quarters of the Jan. 6 defendants haven’t been charged with it.
Judge Alito asked the crucial question:
“We need to find out what are the outer reaches of this statute, under your interpretation.”
And there was another from Justice Thomas:
"Has the government applied this provision to other protests in the past, and has this been the government's position throughout the lifespan of this statute?" Justice Clarence Thomas asked.
The Court's decision on this issue would affect hundreds who were prosecuted under a law that was adopted & used for a financial scandal.
In other news:
Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial, swore in the first seven jurors in the Trump show trial. Believe it or not he was forced to dismiss several for social media posts critical of Trump. How did they get called for jury duty? Shouldn't there be vetting before assembling a pool?
Some Republicans seem ready to take on Speaker Johnson.
The House sent 2 Articles of impeachment against HSS Mayorkas, which Chuck Schumer will try to dismiss quickly.
Separate Israeli strikes killed two Hezbollah commanders in southern Lebanon.
Joe Biden is considering Trump style sanctions against Iran.
Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, urged people to take matters into your own hands if pro-Palestinian protesters block roads. Such protestors have been doing just that which is illegal. Blue city mayors are slow to respond.
NPR suspended an editor who exposed their woke bias. Donald Trump is calling for the end of taxpayer funding for the propaganda organization.
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Trump walks to NYC bodega amid cheers.
4 out of 5 New Yorkers cant stand the fool.
Still?
Nothing like a crime wave and a fucked-up justice system to change minds.
Keep dreaming.
Michael Moore must be having the same dreams:
TDS runs rampant in Democrat bastions of stupidity.
Which is why no honest or fair trial can be conducted there.
Meanwhile Biden is walking around in a highly choreographed photo session with children and taking no questions.
LOL.
The far right in America these days is out of their minds.
Only trying to keep up with the far left in America these days................Not quite there yet and may never catch up that far.
They're a lost cause. Fuck 'em.
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The DOJ overstepped and charged the protestors with this moronic "obstruction" charge. Why hasn't the DOJ charged with obstruction? Even Justice Gorsuch called out the double standard and hypocrisy.
Notice it never got applied to protests the left likes.
Btw, you were first with this story. I added some opinion, but if you want, I will take mine down.
Don't worry about it. Yours includes other items like Biden's fuck up with Iran, the lefts clown show trials, etc.
Plus, Megyn Kelly's response to Jeffrey Toobin.
She is one tough broad!
The Justices exposed what a pandora's box of civil rights nightmares this opens up. As usual, the left wing activists can't see past their own noses because they can have power today, and can use it. They never think about tomorrow.
So many left wing protesters would be in jail if the TRump DOJ exploited this statute for partisan purposes like Biden has.
They thought that anything involving Trump would be the exception to all rules & norms.
So many left wing protesters would be in jail if the TRump DOJ exploited this statute for partisan purposes like Biden has.
I would love to be Trump's AG this time around!
Her response was brutal.
I miss her on Fox.
All Traitor Joe had to do was nothing. All this is on him and the Democrats.
He decided to coddle Iran. Now Iran is causing him trouble.
The sanctions were lifted solely because of who put them in place. The same for the southern border and many other things.
On day one he signed that stack of executive orders mainly to reverse what he called "bad policy."
And that is the day everything started to fall to shit. Despite this stack of EO's the idiots still try to blame it on the previous administrations.
Radical policy, not to mention the weaponizing of government that followed and the corruption of the Biden family.
So?
Trump signed 220 in 4 years, that's an average of 55 a year. For comparison, Obama signed 275 in 8 years. President Biden is averaging 43 per year at 3.17 years in office.
Calm down.
The "prosecutor" arrives:
Ummmmm.....donuts !
Hi Toobin - fyi you waived your right to use the term “disgraced” about other lawyers when you took your dick out of your pants and jerked off in front of your colleagues.
Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) / X (twitter.com)
What a woman!
was megyn breathing heavily when she typed that ?
Nope, as Bill O'Reilly once said: that's just the way we are.
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I saw impeached homeland security secretary Mayorkas on the news saying that Congress needs to fix his and Joes fuck-ups. Weird that Congress didn't need to fix the border under trump, they just sued him to make it worse.
You would think that when democrats controlled all branches of government, they would have fixed the border.
Now that I think of it, they have the border just the way they want it!
This is a new twist:
Could Traitor Joe have greenlighted the Iranian attack on Israel?
I saw that. I believe Iran has a vested interest in that story.
IMO the story gives the impression that Iran went easy on Israel rather than their missiles & drones being easily shot down.
If this is true, Traitor Joe needs to resign immediatly.
And ignores that around half of the ballistic missiles launched failed to launch or failed and crashed in flight.
He is kind of a stubborn bastard.
We actually had someone who thought they were the equal of US forces.
There is a vast difference between stubborn and stupid.
Biden isn't stubborn.
Just soundly defeated in upcoming election
How will they get him across the wire in November?
Try to gaslight everybody.
BREAKING: Jim Jordan threatens to hold AG Garland in contempt of Congress!
Jordan never tires of making himself look bad.
won't he be busy in court this summer for his part in facilitating the OSU athletic dept child sex scandals?
No, he won't be. Try again.
He is not nearly as bad as the partisan POS Garland.
Garland needs to held accountable not just just for the DOJ going after Brandon's main political opponent; going after parents with the temerity to question what their children are being taught in school; but allowing federal prosecutors to overcharge on J6 rioters and protestors.
I would say they should impeach his ass; but Democrats have no morals or ethics and Schumer will let in die in the Senate.
17 years in congress, he's never sponsored or passed even one bill...he's one worthless POS.
why post a comment that is so easy to prove is a lie?
This stupid fuck does not seem to understand that the Jan 6th invasion of the Capitol was not a protest.
Yes it was.............but like the "protests" of 2020 Summer of Love, this got out of hand.
We miss those peaceful protests of 2020.
Per the DOJ
Protest means Democrats are being violent, attacking federal buildings, obstructing Congress or the Supreme Court, etc..,
Insurrection is when Republicans do the same thing.
You just got to love the hypocrisy of the left and Democrats.
They pissed on the floors and wiped their own shit on the walls of The People's House. They should have been tried and executed.
That can be cleaned. Looted and burned out buildings killing people’s life dreams not so fucking easy.
As if MAGAs forcing both Houses of the United States Congress to abandon their Constitutionally mandated business and to flee for their lives into underground bunkers is something we already forgot all about!
“That can be cleaned.”
What cannot be cleaned is the stain that has been smeared onto our walls of democracy.
Yes, protests, often violent protests, have happened throughout American history. Until Donald Trump no President refused to accept defeat unto violent insurrection against the US Capitol and both Houses of Congress like happened January 6th!
“…like happened January 6th!”
I think back on that day and remember sitting with my wife and the both of us left teary eyed
For anyone who witnessed it in real time and not be revolted, much less dismissive of its impact, is beyond belief.
And yet, here we are.
Yes, here we are with MAGAs still saying Jan 6th is comparable with other events in American History. Pissing on our backs and saying it's raining. As if the whole world did witness Jan 6th, what went on before and what has transpired since...
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And yet there has not been a single charge for an "insurrection". My money is she recently learned that word and was trying to make herself look smart. She failed, but she tried.
She lifted it right out of the 14th Amendment. She was looking to prosecute Trump right from the get-go.
At that point she had tried hoax after hoax to prosecute Trump. And failed. This was nothing more than another stretch that, again, failed.
Her legacy will be forcing her members to vote in total unity, despite their personal beliefs, violating all House norms in selecting a committee that was clearly biased and operated in an underhanded manor, and bringing bitter partisanship and dishonor to the House of Representatives.
Her legacy is one of temper tantrums and promoting hoaxes and false information. She's as credible as Adam Schiff.
Schiff was her favorite to run committees. It was reported that she liked the way he impeached judges.
I'm beginning to wonder about those impeachments.
That is another problem. Given they couldn't prove anything they had to do something in a pathetic attempt to save their already garbage reputation. With that we have the nonsense they pulled from their 4th point of contact.
She is the only reason Mike Pence is still alive too.
Where did he state it was a "protest"?
But then again, when you call the riots over a drug overdose a "protest" I can see where he would be justified.
There was never a plan to instigate an insurrection by Trump or his associates. A handful of the protestors decided to go rogue and start a half assed riot.
A, "handful"? Really.. LMAO!
Invasion?
Go to the southern border that is an invasion.
Jan 6th was a mostly peaceful protest where a very small portion of the protestors rioted.
Invasion.
That's correct - it was failed coup/insurrection incited by the former 'president' and ginni wears the pants thomas is complicit
Why hasn't ginni, I mean token thomas recused himself?
JR where in the statute does it address only "invasion"?
It won't happen.
NPR is as woke as a government institution can get. It even prides itself on that. Being woke, gender/racial diversity, and inclusion take precedence over journalistic ethics.
NPR cannot broadcast news or information that might offend their far leftist writers and editors.
The quicker Republicans can end tax payers paying for NPR the better.
That would be the single positive to come out of it.
They suspend an editor for pointing out that its probably a bad thing when "reporters" are openly deciding whether to cover a story based on whether it helps Trump and have hired a new CEO is basically the stereotype of the super woke progressive who's social media is consists of racialist nonsense and pro Biden talking points.
Just an amazing sense of entitlement for our tax payer dollars from an organization that is about as overtly partisan as it gets.
The Democrat Mayor of Denver has found enough money to take care of migrants:
"Denver will cut hours at recreation centers, end in-person vehicle registration renewals and eliminate spring flower beds to save $5 million this year, a response to the migrant crisis that is expected to cost the city $180 million.
Mayor Mike Johnston on Friday blasted Congress for failing this week to pass a $118.3 billion bill aimed at stopping the flow of illegal entry at the southern border and making it easier for migrants who enter legally to get work permits.
About 40,000 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, have arrived in Denver over the past year, and more than 3,500 are living in city-funded hotel rooms. Thousands took bus rides to other American cities after arriving in Denver, and an unknown number are trying to stay in the city, find jobs and send their kids to school.
Denver has received more migrants per capita than any other city in the nation, the mayor has said.
Denver set up emergency operations to welcome the new arrivals, opened city buildings as shelters and is organizing clinics to help those who are eligible apply for work authorization . Volunteers, meanwhile, mobilized to bring food, and in some cases, tents and propane heaters for those who are living outside."
Denver cuts services amid migrant crisis that's costing $180M (coloradosun.com)
Here is the asshole who did it:
And this moronic idiot thinks that all this pampering, coddling, and love will somehow reduce the number of migrants to our once fair city?
If you are residing there, you have my sympathy.
It gets worse....seems these migrants aren't happy with the freebies they are getting.
Migrants Getting 6 Months of Free Rent Blasted as 'Insufficient' (msn.com)
Joe has spoiled them.
The services that should have been cut are those supporting the illegals. Instead, in true Democrat fashion, he cuts services to the people he's supposed to be serving.
The president of Columbia University is now facing a congressional committee over antisemitism on campus.
And as expected, it's been dismissed by a party line vote in the Senate.
I stated when the House first started up with the inquiry that it was a waste of time. There was no way that the Senate would convict in this case.
That's insane.
Note that they stick together and all vote the same as Schumer decrees.
The lame brained Republicans need to learn to do that.
Right down party lines. The democrats made history again by using their majority to kill the charges without a trial and also set another dangerous precedent.
I stated when the House first started up with the inquiry that it was a waste of time.
I don't know about to that. The democrats were forced to vote on what really is one of the leading issues in the 2024 election.