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Whoops indeed: US Capitol riot defendants facing jail have all the excuses

FBI says it warned law enforcement of threat of the Capitol riot, planned in part on publicly available social media. For many accused of trying to block Congress from confirming the winner of the US presidential election on January 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.

Capitol riot defendants facing jail have regrets Judges aren t buying it

US District Judge Beryl Howell, chief federal jurist for the District of Columbia, responded incredulously to one defence attorney who said his client believed Trump requested his unlawful conduct. She said if a president could authorise overturning an election he would be no different from “a king or a dictator,” and “that is not how we operate here.” When the attorney added that the man, the accused leader of a Proud Boys group, had been “chastened rather than emboldened” by the federal charges and that his anti-government “fever has broken,” Howell clapped back. “Essentially, that’s what your argument is, saying, ‘Whoops,’ now?” Ms Howell asked. “Has he expressed any remorse or rejection of his membership in the Proud Boys, a gang of nationalist individuals? Does he reject the fantasy the election was stolen? Does he regret the positions that animated the mob on January sixth? Is there anything on the record about any of those things?”

Capitol riot defendants facing jail have regrets Judges aren t buying it

Capitol riot defendants facing jail have regrets Judges aren t buying it
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D C judge orders Olathe Proud Boy held without bond until trial in Capitol riot case

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