Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s curious that the MAGA Republicans controlling the House bombarded FBI director Chris Wray with criticisms on Wednesday about his role in investigating former President Donald Trump, considering that Wray is a Republican himself who was appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation by Trump himself. Committee Republicans,…
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Maryland Think Tank Director Who Republicans Used to Lodge Charges Against Hunter Biden Has Been Indicted for Acting as an Unregistered Foreign Agent
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The director of a think tank in Maryland who claimed to have damaging information about President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has been charged with arms trafficking, violating sanctions against Iran and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for China, according to a federal indictment unsealed this week by…
Conservative Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Legal Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With another stroke of their blood-soaked computer keyboards, the activist judges on the Trump-Bush conservative Supreme Court might as well have taken an axe to the Constitutional separation of powers and splintered the power of the Executive branch to make policy on matters it is…
Conservative Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action
Legal Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is great to find out on Thursday, June 29, 2023 — thanks to a conservative majority on the Supreme Court — that on the eve of American Independence Day, the United States has finally reached the zenith of its founding, self-evident pledge, “that all…
Two More Trump Supporters Face Consequences for Violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two more radical, right-wing domestic terrorists who supported Donald Trump’s insurrection and attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, face consequences for their violent actions on that infamous day in American history. Colorado Man Sentenced For Assault on Law Enforcement During Capitol Breach A Colorado man…
Trump Supporter Who Tased DC Cop Michael Fanone in Capitol Attack Sentenced to 12 Years
Fanone Calls for the Indictment of Trump – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A radical, right-wing militia member and avid Trump supporter from California who tased Metro Police officer Michael Fanone during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in federal prison this week…
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With Republican Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski – ProPublica – In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska. The Supreme Court justice was on vacation at a luxury fishing lodge that charged more than $1,000 a day, and after catching a king salmon nearly the size of…
DC Top Cop Indicted for Obstruction in Colluding With Proud Boys Leader
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a rare, one of a kind case proving that there was indeed law enforcement involvement in the seditious conspiracy leading up to the violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a Metropolitan Police Lieutenant was arrested last week after being indicted by a grand jury and…
Oath Keepers Leader Stewart Rhodes Sentenced to 18 Years for Seditious Conspiracy
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Stewart Rhodes, 58, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was sentenced by a federal judge on Thursday to 18 years in prison for his conviction on seditious conspiracy charges and the role he played in leading the mobilization of the pro-Trump insurrection and attack on the Capitol…
Famous Jan. 6 Rioter Seen Reclining in Pelosi’s Office Sentenced to 4.5 Years in Federal Prison
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Arkansas man who became famous for being pictured reclining with his feet on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office desk in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the Trump insurrection and Capitol Breach, with the government arguing that…
National Terrorism Bulletin Issued by U.S. Homeland Security Department
Lone Offenders and Small Groups Continue to Pose a Persistent Threat – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Be on the lookout for violent threats from domestic and foreign terrorists, according to a new National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin issued Wednesday. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas issued the National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin…
Texas Man Who Tried to Breach the House Speaker’s Lobby on Jan. 6 Gets 7 Years in Federal Prison
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Texas Trump supporter who joined rioters in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and tried to break into the Speaker’s Lobby and shut the power off in the Capitol was sentenced by a federal judge on Tuesday to nearly seven years in prison. Christopher…
Jury Convicts Four Leaders of the Proud Boys of Seditious Conspiracy for Planning Revolution and Leading the Attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A jury returned guilty verdicts on multiple felonies against five members of the Proud Boys, finding four of the defendants guilty of seditious conspiracy for their actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. According to the evidence at trial, in the months…
Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School: Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition
By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and…
Trump’s Domestic Terrorist Followers Continue to be Arrested, Convicted and Sent to Prison
Editor’s Note: This is a weekly roundup of results from cases related to the seditious conspiracy that led to the insurrection and attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021 when Trump refused to concede his loss in the 2020 election and incited followers to violence in Washington to try to keep him in power. We are…
Seven More Trump Supporters Sentenced to Federal Prison for Roles in Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to track down, arrest and seek convictions against radicalized supporters of former President Donald Trump who heeded his call for insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and came to the nation’s capital to try to halt the peaceful transfer of power and overturn the…
Illinois and Massachusetts Men Charged With Felonies For Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is continuing to hunt down Trump supporters and arrest those who took an active role in the seditious conspiracy and insurrection by breaching the United States Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. This past week the United States Department of Justice announced an arrest…
Pennsylvania Man Arrested on Felony Charge For Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is continuing to hunt down and arrest Trump supporters who took part in the seditious conspiracy and insurrection by breaching the United States Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. A Pennsylvania man has been arrested this week on felony and misdemeanor charges for his…
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and A Cozy Friendship With Billionaire Harlan Crow
By Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski – ProPublica – In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago…
New York Woman Found Guilty of For Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A New York woman has been found guilty on felony charges this week for her actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, for disrupting a joint session of Congress convened to certify the electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election. Maryann Mooney-Rondon, 56, of…