![]() ![]() McBride went to law school because his brother was serving a 15-year sentence for a crime he did not commit. Support our Independent Journalism - Donate Today! 6 protest such as Stewart Rhodes, who founded Oath Keepers, may conceivably be guilty of sedition, and even this is in doubt, the vast majority of those caught up in the incursion of the Capitol did not commit serious crimes, engage in violence or know what they would do in Washington other than protest the election results. While a few of the organizers of the Jan. Those charged and convicted of “seditious conspiracy” were accused of collaborating to oppose “the lawful transfer of presidential power by force” by preventing or delaying the Certification of the Electoral College vote. There are six convictions and four guilty pleas on charges of “seditious conspiracy.” This offense is so widely defined that it includes conspiring to levy war against the government on the one hand and delaying the execution of any law on the other. 6, approximately 220 “have been sentenced to periods of incarceration” with a further 100 defendants “sentenced to a period of home detention, including approximately 15 who also were sentenced to a period of incarceration,” according to the U.S. Of the 394 federal defendants who have had their cases adjudicated and sentenced as of Feb. ![]() The charges and sentences vary, with many receiving misdemeanor sentences such as fines, probation, a few months in prison or a combination of the three. history, according to analysis by Business Insider. 6, with 476 pleading guilty, in what has been the largest single criminal investigation in U.S. The current Supreme Court is one of the most retrograde in decades, rolling back legal protections for vulnerable groups and denying workers protection from predatory corporate abuse.Īt least 1,003 people have been arrested and charged so far for participation in events on Jan. The courts, throughout American history, have abjectly served the interests of big business and the billionaire class. The Classified Information Procedures Act, or CIPA, begun under the Reagan administration, also allows evidence in a trial to be classified and withheld from defendants. Julian Assange faces SAMs or similar conditions should he be extradited to the U.S. The solitary confinement like conditions associated with SAMs undermine any meaningful right to a fair trial according to analysis by groups like the Center for Constitutional Rights and can amount to torture according to the United Nations. They severely restrict a prisoner’s communication with the outside world prohibiting calls, letters and visits with anyone except attorneys and sharply limit contact with family members. SAMs, established by the Clinton administration, originally only applied to people who ordered murders from prison or were convicted of mass murder, but are now used to isolate all manner of detainees before and during trial. After 9/11, it relentlessly went after Muslim leaders and activists with Special Administrative Measures (SAMs). It persecuted radicals and reformers in the name of anti-communism. ![]() It was the hammer that broke the back of militant union movements. It was used to enforce segregation and legitimize the reign of terror against Black people. Once rights become privileges, none of us are safe. 6 events, a lynching that is mandating years in pretrial detention and prison for misdemeanors. But that does not mean I support the judicial lynching against many of those who participated in the Jan. Their vision for America, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, blind support for Trump and embrace of reactionary fact-free conspiracy theories leaves a very wide chasm between their beliefs and mine. ![]() There is little that unites me with those who occupied the Capitol building on Jan. ![]()
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