1/6 noose keeps tightening

Joshua James, a co-defendant in a criminal case involving Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to charges of seditious conspiracy and obstruction related to the U.S. Capitol riot.

It marks the first person involved in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol to be convicted of the rarely used charge.

A guilty plea is potentially problematic for the 10 other co-defendants in the high-profile criminal case, who are accused of acting by force to prevent, hinder or delay laws related to the transfer of presidential power. Phoenix resident and political activist Edward Vallejo is among those charged.

As part of his plea, the 34-year-old James agreed to cooperate with law enforcement and prosecutors, including testifying before grand jury and sitting for interviews. Prosecutors asked U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta to defer sentencing to ensure James cooperates to their satisfaction.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/02/joshua-james-pleads-guilty-seditious-conspiracy-capitol-riot/9354111002/

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LeopoldBloom · M

Eventually, someone is going to implicate Giuliani or Don Jr. as being in the chain of command, and they are going to make a deal and flip on Traitor Tot.

eli1601 · 70-79, M

@LeopoldBloom 🤣

SomeMichGuy · M

@LeopoldBloom I love that phrase: "Traitor Tot"! lol

LeopoldBloom · M

@SomeMichGuy It's one of my favorites, especially since 1/6.

MistyCee

Stone's body guard flipping is indeed good news, but I'm also pleased that the Select Committee is pushing the crime fraud exception to the attorney client privilege.

Unlike criminal prosecutions of low level soldiers, which can and are going forward, the only indication that anyone's looking at the Capos and the Don is from the Committee and they need to work quickly before they get shut down in January.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@MistyCee The Committee just filed court documents saying they have evidence that Eastland and Trump colluded in putting pressure on Pence to fraudulently switch electoral votes.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@MistyCee [quote]The special House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack said for the first time that it had gathered evidence indicating that former President Donald Trump and others "engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States."

The committee alleged in Wednesday court documents that the conspiracy occurred as Trump and his associates pushed false theories of election fraud and pressured former Vice President Mike Pence to invalidate the 2020 election.

"The evidence supports an inference that President Trump and members of his campaign knew he had not won enough legitimate state electoral votes to be declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential election during the January 6 Joint Session of Congress," the committee disclosed in court documents. "But the President nevertheless sought to use the Vice President to manipulate the results in his favor."[/quote]
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/02/jan-6-panel-alleges-trump-engaged-criminal-conspiracy/9353408002/

MistyCee

@dancingtongue Pretty much, although there were 2 crimes named and more or less what the filing said was there was enough evidence to make the good faith assertion that Eastman shouldn't be able to use the attorney client privilege to hide evidence of Trump's crimes.

All that lawyer talk means really is that the Committee feels like there's enough evidence of a crime to prevent the perversion of the attorney client privilege, not that there's enough evidence to accuse (or issue a criminal referral yet) Trump of a crime. If they win, he just can't hide behind privilege.

If you can get past the paywall, Bump does a pretty good job of going through the details.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/03/understanding-criminal-allegation-jan-6-committee-is-constructing-against-trump/

SomeMichGuy · M

Good.

About time some of the right charges were being levelled & prosecuted.

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