The all-male, domestic terrorist group known as The Proud Boys is “rebuilding” after being degraded by January 6th prosecutions for crimes they committed. Come on guys, tick tock: you’ve only five months until your next coup attempt. Chop chop.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., orders former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 for defying Jan. 6 subpoenas.
CBS News reports: "A jury found Bannon guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack."
Judge rules #SteveBannon must go to #prison by July 1 while appealing #contempt case
The former #Trump adviser is challenging a 4-month prison term for contempt of Congress after failing to appear before a House panel investigating the #Jan6, 2021, riot.
U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols agreed after a nearly hour-long hearing. “I don’t believe that the original basis for my stay of Mr. #Bannon’s sentence exists any longer. I no longer consider that his appeal raises substantial questions of #law of a kind likely to reverse his #conviction,” Nichols said, citing that panel’s ruling.
Judge rules #Bannon must go to prison by July 1 while appealing contempt case
The former #Trump adviser is challenging a four-month prison term for contempt of Congress after failing to appear before a House panel investigating #Jan6 #legal
Federal prosecutors made the request last month, arguing that no substantial #legal questions remain over #Bannon’s 2-count #conviction for refusing to provide docs or testimony to a #House cmte probing the #Jan6, 2021, attack after a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected Bannon’s appeal….
“Under these circumstances, the Court ‘shall order’ defendant ‘be detained,’ so the stay of sentence must be lifted,” Asst US Atty wrote to US Dist Judge Nichols….
#SCOTUS Justice Samuel A. #Alito Jr. has offered multiple accounts of how politically charged flags [#insurrectionist flags] came to fly outside his homes in VA & NJ — the type of display that is generally off-limits for judges, who must remain #impartial & avoid even the appearance of #bias as they handle cases.
The most pivotal question about the #UpsideDown American #flag has yet to be fully answered: #MarthaAnnAlito’s motivation for flying it.
…The Alitos have not explicitly addressed whether the upside-down flag had a connection to #Jan6 or “Stop the Steal,” & Justice #Alito’s comments about his wife’s motivation for flying it have shifted.
…#MarthaAnnAlito, in her only known public comments about the flag, shouted at a WaPo reporter, “It’s an international sign of distress!”
…#Alito repeated his contention that a neighborhood dispute sparked the flag flying in a statement….
In letters Alito sent to Congress saying he would not recuse himself from the #Jan6 cases, however, the justice’s explanation subtly changed.…writing, “my wife’s reasons for flying the flag are not relevant for present purposes.”
I love this story about how this woman got this guy, Andrew Taake, to admit what he did on Jan 6th via the Bumble app.
"The woman's strategy was to say, 'Wow, crazy, tell me more,' on repeat until she had enough to send to the FBI.
A Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted law enforcement officers with bear spray & a metal whip — & who was arrested thanks to a woman's sting operation on the dating app Bumble — has been sentenced to just over six years in prison. #JAN6#Convicted
Pete Buttigieg PERFECTLY explains how Republicans ignore real problems to push bigoted laws, fascist, christian nationalist agendas. This Pride Month, let's remember we must push back harder than ever and fight for true equality. It's time to hold them accountable and vote them out this November!
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg PERFECTLY explains how Republicans ignore real problems to push bigoted laws, hatful fascist, christian nationalist agendas. This Pride Month, let's remember we must push back harder than ever and fight for true equality. It's time to hold them accountable and vote them out this November! #vote
WI’s AG filed charges against an aide & 2 attys who advised Trump over a meeting of #Republicans who claimed to be the state’s 2020 presidential electors even though Trump had lost the state.
The charges are the first in WI related to the meeting of electors. Prosecutors have separately charged Republicans who were involved in similar efforts in #Arizona, #Michigan, #Nevada & #Georgia.
The latest #doxxing attempt fits a pattern of #threats against people who speak out against Trump.
The addresses & phone numbers of fmr Trump lawyer Cohen's family members were posted to a doxxing website after Trump was #convicted of 34 #felony counts in connection w/a scheme to illegally #influence the #2016election.
#Trump supporters tried to #dox#jurors last week after his #conviction, & they also targeted #prosecutors & the #judge, Justice #Merchan, in the case w/ #threats. During the trial, the mother of a fmr police officer, #MichaelFanone, who was nearly killed on #Jan6, 2021, by rioters who believed Trump's lies about the #2020election was "#swatted" after her son called Trump "an authoritarian" w/ "a violence fetish."
#SCOTUS is expected to rule soon on another case that could affect the scope & timing of the election interference prosecution. That case concerns the viability of a federal #obstruction#law that prosecutors have used to accuse #Trump of encouraging a mob of his supporters to disrupt the certification of the election that took place at the Capitol on #Jan6, 2021.
If Trump is elected, he could have his #DOJ dismiss the charges. Even w/o that step, policy forbids prosecuting a sitting president
All of these prominent #Republicans linked Donald Trump’s rhetoric to the potential for #PoliticalViolence. Then we saw such #violence on #Jan6, 2021.
Despite the predictability of it — & indeed, the fact that it was predicted — #Trump has wrangled control of the #RepublicanParty again, & he continues & not-at-all-subtly raise the specter of unrest & violence as a political bargaining chip.
Trump calls on the Supreme Court to annul his guilty verdict in election interference hush-money case
In a worrying sign for Trump,
a new ABC/IPSOS poll showed ⭐️50% of voters thought the verdict was correct,
nearly double the 27% proportion who believed it was wrong.
⭐️Nearly half of those polled, 49%, thought he should end his campaign – a step he is highly unlikely to take.
The figures were even starker among “double haters”
– voters who equally dislike Trump and president Joe Biden
– 🌟65% of whom supported the verdict, with two-thirds saying the former president should end his campaign.
Pollsters predict the cohort could be a critical component of the swing voter constituency they believe will determine the outcome in November.
By appealing to the supreme court to intervene in a case he insists is nakedly political,
Trump is reprising the legal strategy deployed in his defense against special counsel Jack Smith’s charges
relating to the 6 January 2021 mob attack on the US Capitol
in a bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election result in his favor.
The #Jan6 case is currently on hold while the nine justices consider claims by Trump’s lawyers that he had complete #immunity from prosecution for decisions taken while he was president.
But Trump's invocation of the court
– which has a six-to-three conservative majority after Trump’s judicial appointments while he was in the White House
– also comes as 💥 questions over the court's political #impartiality are at a peak💥... following revelations that a US flag was flown upside down at the home of Justice Samuel #Alito at the time of the January 6 riot.
The gesture is identical to that used by many participants in the attack as a symbol of protest against Biden’s victory.
Any GOP politicians who don’t want the #Trump chaos to continue should take the DC criminal convictions as an opportunity to make a clean break with #MAGA.
They could have done this after #Jan6 but they probably didn’t realize how bad it would get.
They now have an ideal opportunity to break away. Don’t squander it or you will be dragged into the pit with Trump.
Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.
Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.
Fmr DC Metropolitan PD Officer #MichaelFanone’s 78-year-old mother was the victim of a #swatting call hours after he spoke outside the criminal #TrumpTrial in #NewYork.
During the #insurrection on #Jan6, Fanone was nearly killed by #Trump supporters while protecting congresspeople & staff inside the Capitol building.
#Trump has posted a photo on his social media w/o comment — the photo of the #UpsideDown American #flag that was hung outside the home of #SCOTUS justice Samuel #Alito after the Capitol riot in 2021. The upside down flag was a symbol of distress but is now a #RightWing symbol of #Jan6, Stop the Steal & support for Trump. It was posted by several other #Republicans as well.
“The clash between the wife of a conservative #SCOTUS justice & a couple…in their 30s & liberal…played out over months….the…shouting match…at the height of tensions over the #2020election…might have happened in any mixed political community in America.”
There are some differences: For instance, Justice #Alito told Fox News that his wife hoisted the flag in response to Ms. Baden’s vulgar insult. However, a text message & the police call — corroborated by Fairfax County authorities — indicate that the name-calling took place on Feb. 15, weeks AFTER the inverted #flag was taken down.
Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. announced Wed that he will not recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases at #SCOTUS after Democratic lawmakers questioned whether he could be impartial following reports that an upside-down #flag flew at his home in the weeks after the… [#insurrection].