Posted on 05/09/2024 7:16:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has just admitted that he and other DOJ and FBI minions manipulated documentary evidence underlying the Mar-a-Lago case against Donald Trump. Everybody from Judge Aileen Cannon on down realizes this is bad. Still, I wonder how many people have noticed that Smith has admitted to doing what J6 defendants are accused and have been convicted of doing: Violating 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2). The statutory charges against the J6 defendants are a specious abuse of the law but they perfectly fit Smith’s admitted conduct.
One of the main tools in the DOJ arsenal against anyone near the Capitol on January 6, 2021, is § 1512(c)(2), which the DOJ claims means imprisonment for a person who “corruptly...obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding...” That is what the DOJ claims happened when ordinary Americans (a) exercised their rights of free speech and (b) usually inadvertently, entered onto Capitol land after masked agitators had removed “no trespassing” signage and fencing and after the Capitol police had opened the building’s doors. The penalty is fines and/or imprisonment, with the latter potentially as long as 20 years.
The Supreme Court, though, is hearing Fischer v. United States, which sees one of the DOJ’s victims contesting the DOJ’s assertion about § 1512(c)(2)’s applicability to the J6. The argument is that § 1512(c)(2) manifestly applies to a very narrow fact set; namely, corruptly interfering with evidence in an official investigation. Heck, it’s in the statute’s title: “Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant.” Every section of the statute manifestly deals solely with efforts to destroy or otherwise manipulate evidence in a matter intended to lead to a criminal indictment.
Nevertheless, to imprison ordinary Americans, the DOJ came down hard on subsection (c)(2) of the statute because it contains the phrase “official proceeding.”
(c) Whoever corruptly—
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I’ve always said the DOJ has morphed into America’s KGB
Only far less competent.
Just like I told you the worm is turning!!
So what happened to the rep that PULLED THE FIRE ALARM INTERRUPTING A VOTE ON THE HOUSE FLOOR ?!?!?!
But he doesn’t get the same treatment.
The demonrat party uses violence as a political tool. Left wing violence is not prosecuted but at the same time they twist the law like a pretzel to go after the conservatives.
Hitler’s Brownshirts were the enforcement wing of the Nazi Party just as Antifa, BLM, are for the Demonrat party. There is no difference.
Short drop, sudden stop for this POS.
Time to revoke federal agent, prosecutorial and judicial immunity.
Prosecutors routinely violate due process via witness intimidation, evidence tampering, multiple bogus charges. All designed to impoverish defendants and force plea deals.
Do these prosecutors or judges ever face fines, loss of licenses, and criminal charges? Only rarely if ever.
Those serving on federal juries need to consider nullification as the default position for all federal non violent cases.
Even if the Feds claim they have evidence. At this point, juries must do something to stop the steamroller
What did Smith and his fellow FBI thugs plant?
It’s OK when they do it; they’re above the law.
This is an actual violation of “obstruction of an official proceeding”, in the sense directly described in the law - unlike the usage against J6 folks (good and bad).
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