Yes he’s been held under pretrial detention orders (denied bail) because he protested Joe Biden’s rigged victory on January 6. No other set of political protesters, including those accused of attacking police, has been subjected to this. And I dare reporters to contradict this. https://t.co/P4kfR98puu
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) August 31, 2022
Ryan Nichols has been in pre-trial incarceration for 590 days. In most jurisdictions he would have long since been offered a plea bargain of time served with his clean record. This is at a time when in most blue urban centers violent offenders, charged with non mickey mouse felonies, are routinely released on recognizance bonds. In similar cases to that of Ryan Nichols, I have had charges reduced to misdemeanors with a sentence of usually 30-60 days with good time eligibility, which halves the time served. With an in court apology to law enforcement and the Court, and his veteran status, combined with his obvious post traumatic stress disorder, there would be a fighting chance of no jail time at all. What is happening to the January 6 Defendants is highly unusual, based upon my four decades at the bar, and is all politics.
This is something Trump can tweet on his Truth Social page about instead of asinine calls to redo the 2020 election that is almost two years in the rear view mirror.
Trump has pledged to pardon all the January 6 Defendants if he gets back in as President. He could have tried to do so with a blanket pardon of all the January 6 protesters prior to leaving office, but such a blanket group pardon without names might not have held up in the courts in this oppresive legal atmosphere.
What do this unconstitutional gulag, the gestapo raid on Mar-A-Lago, The Great Unifier’s litany [last night] of threats and blatant lies tell you?
Way to go, Greg. That’s number one in the commies’ lie manual.
They tell what I already knew. We do not have the Constitutional Republic our forefathers bequeathed to us
No respect for the DC judiciary whatsoever.
Well, unusual in America. Less so in China, North Korea, Soviet Russia…
The Left makes no qualms about wanting to be China. Bergoglio practically worships at that alter. Well, only to the extent he worships anything other than himself. As I said on another post, we are in a cold civil war. We need to act like it. At this point, these folks are simply political prisoners kept by a corrupt regime.
“Trump has pledged to pardon all the January 6 Defendants if he gets back in as President. He could have tried to do so with a blanket pardon of all the January 6 protesters prior to leaving office, but such a blanket group pardon without names might not have held up in the courts in this oppresive legal atmosphere.”
This is really a meaningless promise. One, it does nothing for them NOW. He could be helping with their legal fees by raising money and/or donating himself. He could be doing everything he could to draw attention to their plight. But he isn’t. He’s crawling down stupid rabbit holes calling for a redo of an election that occurred al ost two years ago. Like you said before, Don, Trump cares about only one person, Trump!
WTF are talking about T. Shaw?
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Greg, this is a personal request. Please do not use the F word on this site even as the letter F. I block people on social media who use it & cannot do so on this blog. I teach children. And if I allow things to be in my mind, they will start coming out my mouth.
Trump says he is financially supporting January 6 defendants.
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-says-hes-financially-supporting-january-6-defendants-2022-9
” such a blanket group pardon without names might not have held up in the courts in this oppresive legal atmosphere.”
There is a legal precedent with the soldiers of the Confederate army who were pardoned en masse without names to afford benefits to their widows.
The pardons issued by President Andrew Johnson had names attached and had nothing to do with benefits, since no benefits were paid to Confederate widows in any case. A better analogy would be Carter’s pardon of the draft dodgers in 1977. I don’;t think that was ever tested in court. I tend to think that such a blanket pardon should hold up because the President’s pardon power is absolute, but I am not certain the courts would agree with me.
Thank you, Donald R. McClarey
Perhaps it was a Congressional act that I remember. It had nothing to do with President Andrew Johnson but was much more recent; benefits to help the surviving widows of Confederate soldiers. Maybe it did not pass.
Thanks again.