This is outrageous: One of the Trump-hating judges who gleefully sentenced J6ers to prison for "parading in a public place" is now refusing to honor Trump's pardons of J6ers."
Julie Kelly
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DC JUDGES ACTING REALLY BADLY:
Hoy sh*t. This gem from former chief judge Beryl Howell, an unabashed Trump hater, who denied part of new DC US atty motion to dismiss J6 indictment following Pres Trump's pardon. She calls the president's pardon proclamation "flatly wrong."
When you see someone claiming these proceedings were fair and impartial, present this tirade to them.
Long past time to impeach this desperate, bitter hag.
"The only reason provided for this instruction, as set out in the [President's] Proclamation's introduction, is the assertion that this action 'ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years and begins a process of national reconciliation.
No 'national injustice' occurred here, just as no outcome-determinative election fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election. No "process of national reconciliation" can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding in Congress and doing so with impunity. That merely raises the dangerous specter of future lawless conduct by other poor losers and undermines the rule of law.
Yet, this presidential pronouncement of a 'national injustice' is the sole justification provided in the government's motion to dismiss the pending indictment.
Having presided over scores of criminal cases charging defendants for their criminal conduct both outside and inside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, which charges were fully supported by evidence in the form of extensive videotapes and photographs, admissions by defendants in the course of plea hearings and in testimony at trials, and the testimony of law enforcement officers and congressional staff present at the Capitol on that day, this Court cannot let stand the revisionist myth relayed in this presidential pronouncement.
The prosecutions in this case and others charging defendants for their criminal conduct at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, present no injustice, but instead reflect the diligent work of conscientious public servants, including prosecutors and law enforcement officials, and dedicated defense attorneys, to defend our democracy and rights and preserve our long tradition of peaceful transfers of power--which, until January 6, 2021, served as a model to the world--all while affording those charged every protection guaranteed by our Constitution and the criminal justice system.
As to these two defendants specifically, both admitted their criminal conduct under oath, after consultation with their attorneys, and pursuant to plea agreements to which they agreed. Bluntly put, the assertion offered in the presidential pronouncement for the pending motion to dismiss is flatly wrong."
She dismissed without prejudice instead of with prejudice as DOJ asked.
That means that a later DOJ can revive the charges. She's simply blowing off the pardon.
This is insurrection.
Put this rancid insurrecting leftist in the cell that used to hold a J6er.
Howell was one of the judges rubber-stamping every motion by illegal prosecutor Jack Smith.
So was Tanya Chutkin, who is also ranting about the pardons.
Politico reports on the judicial insurrection:
Howell, who presided over several secret proceedings in special counsel Jack Smith's criminal cases against Trump -- issuing key rulings that required some of his top aides to testify to a grand jury -- was not the only judge Wednesday to defend the Jan. 6 prosecutions.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan -- who was slated to preside over Trump's own criminal prosecution for seeking to subvert the 2020 election before his 2024 victory ended the case -- said Trump's mass pardons "cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake."
"It cannot repair the jagged breach in America's sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power," Chutkan wrote in an order connected to a Jan. 6 felony case. "In hundreds of cases like this one over the past four years, judges in this district have administered justice without fear or favor. The historical record established by those proceedings must stand, unmoved by political winds, as a testament and as a warning."
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said Trump's action could never change the "immutable" record of violence and heroism of law enforcement, which will remain enshrined in court records.
"Dismissal of charges, pardons after convictions, and commutations of sentences will not change the truth of what happened on January 6, 2021," Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a six-page order dismissing charges against Dominic Box, whom she had previously convicted of two felony counts for his role in the riot.
"What occurred that day is preserved for the future through thousands of contemporaneous videos, transcripts of trials, jury verdicts, and judicial opinions analyzing and recounting the evidence through a neutral lens," Kollar-Kotelly wrote. "Those records are immutable and represent the truth, no matter how the events of January 6 are described by those charged or their allies."
Impeach.