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Jan. 6 sedition trial underway for Oath Keepers leader
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2022-09-27 at 11:06 PM UTChttps://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-donald-trump-conspiracy-government-and-politics-24efefa9f8658b8dc12b3cc079663c9d
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of the founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group and four associates charged with seditious conspiracy, one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Amid complaints by attorneys for Stewart Rhodes and the others that they can’t get a fair jury in Washington, the judge began winnowing the pool of potential jurors who will decide the fate of the first Jan. 6 defendants to stand trial on the rare Civil War-era charge.
The case against Rhodes and his Oath Keeper associates is the biggest test yet for the Justice Department in its massive Jan. 6 prosecution and is being heard in federal court not far from the Capitol. Seditious conspiracy can be difficult to prove, and the last guilty trial verdict was nearly 30 years ago.
Prosecutors have accused Rhodes of leading a weekslong plot to violently stop the transfer of presidential power from election-denier Donald Trump to Joe Biden that culminated with Oath Keepers dressed in battle gear storming the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Jury selection could take several days and the trial is expected to last at least five weeks.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Tuesday denied defense attorney’s latest bid to move the trial out of Washington. The judge acknowledged that no juries have acquitted Jan. 6 defendants so far, but said that doesn’t tell him about “bias or inherent bias of jurors in the District of Columbia.”
The court already had dismissed more than two dozen potential jurors before Tuesday, including a journalist who had covered the events of Jan. 6. and someone else who described that day “one of the single most treasonous acts in the history of this country.”
The judge disqualified several other people Tuesday based on concerns about their impartiality. One man recalled the fear and “trauma” that he experienced on Jan. 6. Mehta also disqualified a woman who said she used to work as a House staffer on Capitol Hill and still has many friends who work there.
“I was really afraid for their lives that day,” she said.
Others excused from the jury pool include an attorney who questioned why hundreds of people have been charged with Capitol riot offenses when some of them appeared to him to be “just standing around.” Another was a man who said he raised money for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign and expressed negative impressions of the Oath Keepers
Phillip Linder, an attorney for Rhodes, urged the judge to disqualify another man who said he has a close family friend who works for a House member and recalled watching livestreamed video of the Capitol attack. The judge called it a “close call” but declined to disqualify the man who said he could set aside what he has heard about the Oath Keepers.
Hundreds of people have already been convicted of joining the mob that overran police barriers, beat officers and smashed windows, sending lawmakers fleeing and halting the certification of Biden’s electoral victory.
In a different court on Tuesday, a judge handed down one of the longest sentences so far in the riot. Kyle Young of Redfield, Iowa, was ordered to serve seven years in prison after he admitted to assaulting then-Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone.
Prosecutors will try to show that an Oath Keepers’ plot to stop Biden from becoming president started well before that, in fact before all the votes in the 2020 race had even been counted.
On trial with Rhodes, of Granbury Texas, are Thomas Caldwell, of Berryville, Virginia; Kenneth Harrelson, of Titusville, Florida; Jessica Watkins of Woodstock, Ohio, and Kelly Meggs of Dunnellon, Florida.
Caldwell, a retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer and the only defendant released from jail ahead of trial, walked with a cane as he slowly entered the courthouse wearing a dark suit.
Authorities say Rhodes, a former U.S. Army paratrooper and a Yale Law School graduate, spent weeks mobilizing his followers to prepare to take up arms to defend Trump. The Oath Keepers repeatedly wrote in chats about the prospect of violence, stockpiled guns and put “quick reaction force” teams on standby outside Washington to get weapons into the city quickly if needed, authorities say.
On Jan. 6, Oath Keepers were captured on camera storming the Capitol in military-style “stack” formation. Rhodes isn’t accused of going inside the Capitol, but phone records show he was communicating with Oath Keepers who did enter around the time of the riot and he was seen with members outside afterward.
Conviction for seditious conspiracy calls for up to 20 years behind bars. The last time prosecutors secured a seditious conspiracy conviction at trial was in 1995 in the case against Islamic militants who plotted to bomb New York City landmarks.
Three of Rhodes’ Oath Keepers followers have pleaded guilty to the charge and are likely to testify against him at trial. Rhodes’ lawyers have claimed those Oath Keepers were pressured into pleading guilty and are lying to get a better sentencing deal from the government.
On Tuesday, Rhodes’ lawyers asked the judge to bar prosecutors and witnesses from using words such as “antigovernment” or “extremists” in describing the Oath Keepers to jurors, saying in court documents that it would “add nothing but prejudice into what already promises to be an emotionally charged trial.”
Rhodes’ attorneys have suggested that his defense will focus on his belief that Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act and call up a militia to support his bid to stay in power. Defense attorneys say Rhodes’ actions in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6 were in preparation for what he believed would have been lawful orders from Trump under the Insurrection Act, but never came.
The defense has said that Oath Keepers were dressed in helmets and goggles to protect themselves from possible attacks from left-wing antifa activists and that the “quick reaction force” outside Washington was meant for defensive purposes if Trump invoked the Insurrection Act.
Nearly 900 people have been charged so far in the Jan. 6 riot and more than 400 have pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial.
Sentences for the rioters so far have ranged from probation for low-level misdemeanor offenses to 10 years in prison for a retired New York City police officer who used a metal flagpole to assault an officer at the Capitol.
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Associated Press journalist Mike Pesoli contributed to this report from Washington.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the Capitol riot at https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege.
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2022-09-27 at 11:07 PM UTCAmerica is now full third world.
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2022-09-27 at 11:19 PM UTCwhy cuz u can't try to invade the government
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2022-09-27 at 11:20 PM UTC
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2022-09-27 at 11:43 PM UTC
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2022-09-27 at 11:45 PM UTChttps://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-115
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
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2022-09-27 at 11:47 PM UTChttps://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/june/blm-leader-threatens-to-burn-down-the-system-literally-calls-jesus-a-black-radical-revolutionary
Where were the charges?
Oh, you only get in trouble if you oppose jedi power. jedis like Susan Rosenberg get to literally bomb the United States government and get presidential pardons. -
2022-09-28 at 12:01 AM UTCWhere were the sedition charges for Weather Underground Organisation?
That gang of jedis literally bombed the Pentagon, didn't get in trouble, then went on to become college professors and media "experts".
All while shouting about how much they wanted to kill white babies, a level of ethnic hate that scared even the black panthers.
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/weather-underground-bombingsThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2022-09-28 at 12:06 AM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/june/blm-leader-threatens-to-burn-down-the-system-literally-calls-jesus-a-black-radical-revolutionary
Where were the charges?
Oh, you only get in trouble if you oppose jedi power. jedis like Susan Rosenberg get to literally bomb the United States government and get presidential pardons.said… believes… told… answered…
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/04/oath-keepers-leader-sought-to-contact-trump-on-jan-6-court-papers-indicate-00030219Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes tried to connect with then-President Donald Trump on the evening of Jan. 6, 2021, and urge him to ask the group to forcibly oppose the ascension of Joe Biden, according to a court filing posted on Wednesday in connection with a plea deal by one of Rhodes’ allies.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-say-oath-keepers-plot-went-jan-6-attack-capitol-rcna16474Feds say Oath Keepers plot went beyond Jan. 6 attack on Capitol
The feds said that Rhodes — who was on the grounds of the Capitol on Jan. 6 — had helped organize “quick reaction forces“ (QRFs), including at a hotel in nearby Virginia.
Prosecutors have accused Rhodes of leading a weekslong plot to violently stop the transfer of presidential power from election-denier Donald Trump to Joe Biden that culminated with Oath Keepers dressed in battle gear storming the Capitol on Jan. 6.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-say-oath-keepers-plot-went-jan-6-attack-capitol-rcna16474 -
2022-09-28 at 12:07 AM UTChttps://theconversation.com/black-lives-matter-decentralised-leadership-and-the-problems-of-online-organising-140897
Black Lives Matter: decentralized leadership and the problems of online organizing
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2022-09-28 at 12:07 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-09-28 at 12:07 AM UTChttps://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/07/22/why-the-black-lives-matter-movement-doesnt-want-a-singular-leader-1302934
Why the Black Lives Matter movement doesn't want a singular leader
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2022-09-28 at 12:09 AM UTChttps://www.npr.org/2022/07/19/1112177450/14-key-moments-from-the-jan-6-committee-hearings-so-far
14 key moments from the Jan. 6 committee hearings — so far…
. Barr tells Trump claims of election fraud were "b*******."
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3. "Intoxicated" Rudy Giuliani encouraged Trump to declare victory on election night.
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5. Arizona House speaker says Giuliani admitted he had no evidence of fraud.
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9. Top DOJ official says Trump told him to "just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen."
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10. Trump knew supporters were armed, but he welcomed them anyway.
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11. Hutchinson details that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of a presidential vehicle in protest of the Secret Service refusing to drive him to the Capitol.
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12. And that's to say nothing of the president throwing a plate of food at the wall that left ketchup dripping from it.
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13. Trump tried to call a witness. -
2022-09-28 at 12:10 AM UTC
Originally posted by Bradley dude he busted into the capital in a plot to stop them from passing the presidency to joe biden thats pretty serious
You take loonies running around believing in silly left-right kayfabe crap and looking for space force spaceships to show up seriously enough to want to lock them up with violent thugs, that pretty sad. -
2022-09-28 at 12:11 AM UTChttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/06/28/donald-trump-tried-grab-steering-wheel-beast-drive-us-capitol/
Donald Trump 'grabbed Secret Service agent by throat' on day of Capitol riots, former aide Cassidy Hutchinson testifies
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2022-09-28 at 12:11 AM UTC
According to her evidence, Mr Trump said: "I’m the f—ing president, take me up to the Capitol now."
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2022-09-28 at 12:12 AM UTChttps://reductress.com/post/how-to-ask-your-partner-to-choke-you-like-a-secret-service-agent/
How to Ask Your Partner to Choke You Like a Secret Service Agent
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2022-09-28 at 12:12 AM UTCI slapped him around and made him my bitch.
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2022-09-28 at 12:12 AM UTC
The surprise additional January 6th hearing featuring former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony had the nation shocked to hear of Donald Trump’s egregious behavior during the insurrection of The Capitol. But if you heard the story about Trump attempting to choke a Secret Service agent when he was told he couldn’t join the rioters, and you were actually a little turned on by it, then here’s how to ask your partner to choke you like your job is protecting the President next time you’re both in the mood!
Tell them they can’t go to The Capitol.
Communication is always key in the bedroom, which means that it’s super important to tell your partner, calmly but firmly, that they can’t go to the capitol because it’s extremely dangerous and will break several laws. They’ll definitely take this as a cue to get physical, especially if they’re literally insane and drunk off of their own power. Maybe they’ll even do a little dirty talk back and say “I’m the fucking president!” Hot!
Remind them what treason is.
As long as you’re both on the same page, you should keep urging your partner to listen to quite literally everyone around them who’s telling them not to help the insurrectionists because it’s illegal and morally wrong. Explaining to them what “treason” is will surely help you along even more, and it might just make them angry enough to lunge for your neck! Sexy!
Block their hand from grabbing the steering wheel.
If you’re getting freaky in the car instead of the bedroom, then make sure that you keep your eyes on the road and try to drive safely while your partner attempts to grab the steering wheel to turn the car back around to the Capitol rioters. This will surely lead them to grab for your neck next! Okay, is it getting steamy in here?
So if you’re wanted to switch things up in the bedroom, and you also have a kink for fascist tyrants getting violent so they can join in on storming The Capitol, then try out any of these ways to hint to your partner that you want to be choked like a Secret Service agent. We guarantee this will make you as wet as ketchup dripping down the walls! -
2022-09-28 at 12:13 AM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump Where were the sedition charges for Weather Underground Organisation?
That gang of jedis literally bombed the Pentagon, didn't get in trouble, then went on to become college professors and media "experts".
All while shouting about how much they wanted to kill white babies, a level of ethnic hate that scared even the black panthers.
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/weather-underground-bombings
Good post.
