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This idiot glossing over the fact that the Jan 6th traitors not only attempted to capture congress to kill them and the vice president but also shit in their hands and smeared it on the capital walls?
For Real. J6 built a gallows.
So what I'm hearing is, we should treat SCOTUS the same way Trump supporters treated Congress on 1/6?
Is that really the argument they want to make?
Lol.. I do like your point. However, it seems like what they are saying is that you have to prove they intended harm on those conducting official proceedings. Attacking a police officer is good evidence, but it doesn't necessarily show an intent to harm those conducting the proceeding.
They were beating officers and breaking doors and windows so they could get into the chambers and shake the hands of their elected representatives!
They brought pipe bombs, hand cuffs and zip ties as tokens of affection for their elected leaders!
it seems like what they are saying is that you have to prove they intended harm on those conducting official proceedings.
Uh huh.
So I guess breaking into Congress when it was closed to the public because of COVID, on the day Congress was meeting to certify the winner of an election Trump and his supporters refused to acknowledge he lost, bringing zip tie handcuffs, building a fucking gallows out front, chanting "Hang Mike Pence!", having guns on the Capitol grounds and stashed around DC, and literally beating the officers who were there to protect Congress, doesn't mean Trump supporters were there with "intention to harm?"
Yep, sounds exactly the same as being angry about America's still-extant racism which allows Black men to be murdered by cops to me!
According to your logic, during a BLM protest where people start rioting and breaking into shops that means all the protesters in the area had an intention of committing the same crimes. Do you really want cops charging everyone in a public area with the same crime? Do you want them locking up journalists and people there peacefully cause some people in their vicinity had some lighters, cloth and alcohol bottles? The whole point of trial is to prove someones guilt and for that you need evidence of what crime they were planning to commit.
Quick question there, sparky:
How many people charged for their actions on Jan 6 never entered the Capitol?
Because the only way the logic you're defending holds up, is if that was the case.
Many times it was found that those people breaking shop windows during BLM protests were actually right-wing agitators.
Whataboutism at the Supreme Court. We're screwed.
If the election goes as well as we can reasonably hope, it might be possible to fix the Supreme Court situation. The biggest obstacle is the Democrats actually taking the W and doing what people want instead of waving their arms and panicking because they've won.
Democrats must still listen to their masters, and it ain't us people
If they stormed the Supreme Court and tried to hang a Republican justice I might see the parallel. I'd be silently wishing them godspeed, but I'd at least admit the justices had a fair point.
Damn, one of those protesters got shot after trying to go through the barricade setup because they got into the building like J6? The protesters literally just got signs out and were yelling in front of the building. May these illegitimate fucks die soon. Kavanaugh cant get cirrhosis fast enough.
I think cirrhosis is afraid of getting Kavanaugh.
Holy false equivalence, Batman.
When was the last time Dobbs protestors took a dump on these asshole’s desk?
Fucker wants to know why peaceful protesters who just want their bodily rights aren’t being prosecuted just like hypocritical assholes who say they respect Blue Lives but aren’t averse to killing a cop or two while overthrowing the govt.
Much hilarity ensues.
These justices can fuck all the way off but this headline is taken out of context.
From the article: Alito acknowledged, “What happened on January 6 was very, very serious, and I’m not equating this with that.” But, he continued, “We need to find out what are the outer reaches of this statute under your interpretation.”
"I'm not equating those two things," lied the justice as he equated those two things.
Because only one of those groups were patsies led by a handful of traitors to our country in a plot to overthrow our elected government. And it wasn't the Dobbs protesters.
I'm sorry but patsies makes it sound like they were just gullible victims.
Some of them were and are. Sorry, but I don't think it's reasonable to claim they were all in on the real plot. That doesn't mean they weren't taking part in an insurrection, of course - ignorance is no excuse.
The punishment laid out in their convictions take into account how involved they were in the insurrection. The Supreme Court isn't taking that into account. Many are getting a simple fine for trespassing, but the ones that went with the intent of causing trouble are getting the actual real punishments.
I love how unflattering the pic of Alito is. While he's no looker at the best of times, this one captures his personality better than most.