WAPO: Capitol riot defendants facing jail have reg
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Posted On: 02/26/2021 5:43:55 PM
WAPO: Capitol riot defendants facing jail have regrets. Judges aren't buying it.
What a surprise, it's not going well for the Treasonous Assholes Brigade members.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.p...&w=540
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is...story.html
By Rachel Weiner and Spencer S. Hsu Feb. 26, 2021 at 12:04 p.m. EST
For many accused of attempting to obstruct the confirmation of electoral college votes in the U.S. presidential election on Jan. 6, arrest was a reality check. Now they are getting another.
As defendants charged in the Capitol siege have been coming through court, some have been shifting blame onto former president Donald Trump, downplaying their actions or expressing remorse. But federal judges — particularly those who work a few blocks from the Capitol — aren’t buying it.
One judge called a defendant’s claim of civil disobedience “detached from reality.”
Another verbally smacked down an attorney who tried to use QAnon — the sprawling set of false claims that have coalesced into an extremist ideology — to explain his client shouting “Kill them all!” Other judges have been giving defendants civics lessons on how democracy works.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, the chief federal jurist for the District of Columbia, responded incredulously to one defense attorney who said his client believed Trump requested his unlawful conduct. She said if a president could authorize overturning an election he would be no different from “a king or a dictator,” and “that is not how we operate here.”
What a surprise, it's not going well for the Treasonous Assholes Brigade members.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.p...&w=540
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is...story.html
By Rachel Weiner and Spencer S. Hsu Feb. 26, 2021 at 12:04 p.m. EST
For many accused of attempting to obstruct the confirmation of electoral college votes in the U.S. presidential election on Jan. 6, arrest was a reality check. Now they are getting another.
As defendants charged in the Capitol siege have been coming through court, some have been shifting blame onto former president Donald Trump, downplaying their actions or expressing remorse. But federal judges — particularly those who work a few blocks from the Capitol — aren’t buying it.
One judge called a defendant’s claim of civil disobedience “detached from reality.”
Another verbally smacked down an attorney who tried to use QAnon — the sprawling set of false claims that have coalesced into an extremist ideology — to explain his client shouting “Kill them all!” Other judges have been giving defendants civics lessons on how democracy works.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, the chief federal jurist for the District of Columbia, responded incredulously to one defense attorney who said his client believed Trump requested his unlawful conduct. She said if a president could authorize overturning an election he would be no different from “a king or a dictator,” and “that is not how we operate here.”
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