“The government thus asks to absolve these Defendants of crimes against the United States itself,” Mehta wrote. “In this court’s view, that is not in the public interest.”
When you put it that way, pardoning these people almost sounds treasonous.
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Shun every single J6er to the end of their days. If the court cannot judge them, then the responsibility falls to the citizens.
The court can’t do shit and the citizens have been responsible for the horrors of that nation since they elected Trump. We’d all love to assume those people will be shunned by their communities but their communities support them. It’s the communities that need judgement and justice.
So the US justice department has motioned to stop prosecution. Is this a wink wink from Trump that they can do it all again next presidential election?
That and worse.
These THUGS better NOT do it AGAIN! OTHERWISE the Incoming Democrat President will ENSURE they do NO TIME because that would be TOO POLITICAL!
"Time to move on".
Is SLAMMED back on the menu??
“Slams”, v.: Writes a strongly worded letter to people who either don’t care or can’t read.
slams
They should all aspire to be more like successfully reformed J6er Matthew Huttle.