The Capitol rioters are a mixed bag, but none are patriots, and at least a few may be sociopaths. Edward Kelley, 33, of Maryville, Tennessee, was already awaiting trial on charges he assaulted a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. A Knoxville TV station says (here) that, according [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Insurrection’
December 17th, 2022 - 12:09 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Capitol rioter faces new charges for plotting LEO deaths
Trump can rage all he wants, but he doesn’t get to decide if he’s prosecuted
Today’s news the Jan. 6 committee will recommend prosecuting Trump is a big deal, because everyone needs to be together on it. It’s unmistakably moving in that direction. Months ago Merrick Garland, attorney general, pointedly said no one is beyond the reach of the law. Then he hired a s[...]
Capitol riot mob leader gets 5 years
Capitol rioter Douglas Jensen, a construction worker from Des Moines, Iowa, spent over 2 years in jail awaiting trial before being convicted by a jury on September 23, 2022 (see story here). He was sentenced on December 16, 2022 (story here). His lawyer told the judge, “He wants to return to his n[...]
Why Congress shouldn’t ban Trump under the 14th Amendment
Dozens of House Democrats introduced a bill that would disqualify Donald Trump from future public office under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause (see story here). It probably won’t make it through the House, and if it does, it’ll surely die in the Senate, although for wrong [...]
A tale of two prison sentences
Ronald Sandlin, 35, a Capitol rioter, traveled from Tennessee to Washington D.C. with two other men “in a rental car packed with two pistols, two magazines of ammunition, cans of bear mace, gas masks, body armor, several knives and other gear, according to prosecutors.” On Jan. 6, 2021, [...]
Rep. David Joyce is a moral midget
Rep. David Joyce (R-OH), appearing on a Sunday TV show, “repeatedly refused” to criticize Trump for saying the Constitution should be “terminated” to return him to power. Instead, he said he’ll “fall in behind” whoever the GOP nominates in 2024, and added that “he[...]
December 4th, 2022 - 9:34 pm § in Law and Courts
Capitol rioter with zipties convicted
Larry Rendell Brock, 55, of Grapevine, Texas, was convicted in a bench trial on November 15, 2022, of a single felony count of obstructing an official proceeding and five misdemeanor counts of trespassing and disorderly conduct (read story here). Brock, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, is the[...]
Mr. Pence, do you wish to revise those statements again?
Mike Pence can’t out-prevaricate Trump, nobody can, but he’s sure trying to lower the bar on politician double-talk. On Thursday, December 1, 2022, “Pence told PBS … that soon after the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, he approached … Trump to suggest that ‘[...]
December 1st, 2022 - 2:33 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Capitol rioter faces 5-7 years for pummeling cop with baton
Another violent Trump supporter who tried to overthrow our government on Jan. 6, 2021, will spend years in prison for beating a police officer with a baton, which he kept as a souvenir. Mason Joel Courson (photo, left), 27, of Tamarac, Florida, pled guilty to felony assault of a law enforcement offi[...]
Pence blames lawyers, not Trump
“First, we’ll kill all the lawyers,” Cado’s rebel henchman, anarchist Dick the Butcher, says in Shakespeare’s “King Henry VI,” in Part 2, Act 4. Anarchist rebel Donald Trump doesn’t kill lawyers, but he doesn’t pay them, and throws them under the[...]