philperth2010 wrote on Jan 23
rd, 2025 at 5:51pm:
He has also gone around the Judges again by pardoning two police officers who were convicted for killing a man in a police chase that was unauthorised, two police officers who were found guilty by a jury of their peers. But apparently this isn't good enough for Trump, so he has pardoned them.
Judge Beryl Howell, who was the chief of the DC District Court at the time of the riot said, “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. No ‘national injustice’ occurred here, just as no outcome-determinative election fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election. That merely raises the dangerous specter of future lawless conduct by other poor losers and undermines the rule of law,” Howell added.
Howell, like several of the other judges in DC’s federal court this week, agreed to dismiss pending Capitol riot cases because Trump’s Justice Department no longer wants to prosecute them.
But Chutkan and Howell refused to grant the Justice Department its request for dismissal “with prejudice” for three Capitol riot defendants, including one who was a Proud Boys extremist group chapter leader. Instead, the two judges simply dismissed three rioters’ cases, leaving open the possiblity charges could be brought again later.
“In hundreds of cases like this one over the past four years, judges in this district have administered justice without fear or favor,” Chutkan also wrote. “The historical record established by those proceedings must stand, unmoved by political winds, as a testament and as a warning.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/22/politics/federal-judges-speak-out-january-6-p...
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