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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Insurrection’
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[...]
November 18th, 2022 - 12:05 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Judge compares Capitol rioter to Hitler’s followers
A federal judge compared a Capitol rioter to Hitler’s followers on Friday, November 18, 2022 (see story here). Judge Reggie Walton held nothing back when he sentenced Dustin Thompson, 38, an Ohio exterminator, to 3 years in prison for invading the Capitol and stealing a coatrack and bottle of [...]
Fanone attacker gets 7.5 years
Officer Michael Fanone’s near-death experience on Jan. 6, 2021, came to a denouement of sorts in court today. When Fanone and other cops were defending a building entry point against a mob attacking them with “chemical spray, poles, bats, and officers’ own batons and shields,” a [...]
Who attacked America’s democracy?
And what should we do about them? At the center, of course, was Donald Trump. Most visible were the Capitol rioters, with the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys gangs the most visible of them. But they weren’t alone. The attempted coup also involved numerous “Republican officials, right-wing pa[...]