Jacob Fracker, an ex-cop and National Guardsman from Virginia, pleaded guilty to a felony on Friday, March 18, 2022, NBC News reported here. Fracker admitted he and a co-worker, Thomas Robertson, “stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to block the certification of Joe Biden’s presi[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
March 17th, 2022 - 5:10 pm § in Politics
GOP voter “audit” in New Mexico investigated for intimidation
A House committee is investigating a GOP “audit” of the 2020 election in a New Mexico county after receiving reports a private company is using volunteers knocking on voters’ doors to create “a list of suspects for criminal prosecution,” The Hill reported on Thursday, M[...]
Will Trump be indicted for election crimes?
That possibility is increasing, some ex-federal prosecutors believe. There are at least three separate paths to charging Trump with crimes for trying to overthrow the 2020 election: The House Jan. 6 committee’s investigation of a seditious conspiracy culminating in the Capitol riot, its invest[...]
Smoking gun email could undo a Trump lawyer
John Eastman’s sedition has already cost him his teaching gigs. Now, an email has surfaced that could cost him his license to practice law, too. In January 2021, just days after the Capitol riot, he lost his faculty position at Chapman University Law School and his University of Colorado teach[...]
March 8th, 2022 - 1:09 pm § in Law and Courts
Guilty plea to threatening senators who certified election
A Pennsylvania lawyer arrested en route to Washington D.C. to kill Democratic senators in retaliation for certifying the 2020 election pleaded guilty to making terroristic threats. Kenelm L. Shirk III (photo), 72, of Akron, Pennsylvania, also threatened to kill his wife. She called police, who issue[...]
March 8th, 2022 - 12:20 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Jury convicts Capitol rioter who threatened his own family
Either prosecutors didn’t offer Guy Reffitt a plea deal, or he didn’t take it when he should have. Reffitt is the first Capitol rioter to be convicted by a jury, found guilty on all counts on March 8, 2022 (read story here). Reffitt, 49, who belongs to a Texas militia group, traveled to [...]
March 7th, 2022 - 11:56 pm § in Law and Courts
Going after “Stop the Steal” lawyers
“First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” — Shakespeare, Henry VI Being a lawyer, I’m not in favor of that, and anyway it doesn’t mean what you think. (For what it does mean, go here.) However, I do support disciplining the “Stop the Steal” lawy[...]
March 6th, 2022 - 11:06 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The “stolen election” cult isn’t crazy, it’s dangerous
“Last summer, Idaho officials received demand after demand to investigate extraordinary claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, NBC News reports (here). “In a state where … Trump won by more than 30 points, people claimed a vast conspiracy cheated the f[...]
March 5th, 2022 - 10:39 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump lied at Jan. 6 rally about going to Capitol with supporters
At his January 6, 2021 rally, Trump told the crowd he’d march to the Capitol with them (watch video below). He didn’t, and never intended to. His schedule for that day, released by House investigators this week, reveals he planned in advance to return to the White House after the rally, [...]
How to interpret Jan. 6 committee’s “criminal conspiracy” accusation
Last week, in a court filing (here), the House committee investigating the Capitol riot argued “the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy” (see story here). The news media made it a bigger deal than it is. The committee can’t indict or prosecute anyone.[...]