Trump's getting indicted again today. I think for January 6th? And on my birthday too!
Thank you for the gift, Jack Smith!
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Non-striking driver Dan Sheridan watches some 4,000 Transport Workers Union members demonstrating at City Hall, January 6, 1953. Transit strikes were common up to around the 1980s.
Photo: Paul Rice for the NY Journal-American via the Harry Ransom Center, U. of Texas
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I wonder if House Republicans will commemorate the two year anniversary of a failed fascist coup by still failing to get a Speaker elected
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We have the most corrupt Supreme Court I’ve ever seen!
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The Justice Department is appealing the length of prison sentences for four Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy in the U.S. Capitol attack, challenging punishments that were significantly shorter than what prosecutors had recommended, according to court filings.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio and three lieutenants to prison terms ranging from 15 to 22 years after a jury convicted them in May of plotting to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election.
Tarrio’s 22-year sentence is the longest so far among hundreds of criminal cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, but prosecutors had sought 33 years behind bars for the Miami man.
Attorney Nayib Hassan said in an email that the defense team will review prosecutors’ reasoning for appealing the sentencing but is preparing its own appeal and believes it will “prevail on multiple grounds.”
Prosecutors, who made their court filings on Monday, also had recommended sentences of 33 years for former Proud Boys organizer Joseph Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida; 30 years for Proud Boys chapter leader Zachary Rehl, of Philadelphia; and 27 years in prison for chapter leader Ethan Nordean, of Auburn, Washington.
Kelly sentenced Nordean to 18 years, Biggs to 17 years and Rehl to 15 years.
Defense attorney Norm Pattis, who represents Biggs and Rehl, said in a text message that the government’s appeals are “ridiculous.”
“Merrick Garland needs a new hobby horse,” Pattis said of the attorney general, whose Justice Department secured the convictions.
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Roger Witthoeft, Jr., brother of slain Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt, is charged in two separate battery cases. He’s charged with attacking an SDG&E worker directing traffic, slapping the man and shouting bigoted slurs. Separately, Witthoeft is charged with attacking a man helping a disabled person.
Witthoeft‘s attorney says his client deserves leniency because he was traumatized by Babbitt’s death.
There’s an old Jewish joke about the definition of chutzpah: A man murders his mother and father and then asks the court for leniency on account of being an orphan.
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Air mail was still rather exotic in the 1940s. In this picture, postal service officials and spectators turned out to witness a Sikorsky helicopter as it landed at the 23rd Street Skyport, January 6, 1947. It was the first shuttle flight carrying air mail from La Guardia Field. Two helicopters made six trips each between the airport and the skyport.
Photo: Joe Caneva for the AP
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This is how the left, main stream media and Democrats fell about THE TRUTH.
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https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1566178439866056705
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