Posted on 04/09/2024 4:37:59 PM PDT by rod5591
Federal prosecutors who opted not to pursue charges against “Antifa” members cannot prosecute a Huntington Beach man accused of helping establish a Southern California-based militant, white supremacist group whose members attacked rivals at Southern California political rallies, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Criminal charges against Robert Paul Rundo for allegedly recruiting and training others to commit violence at rallies in Huntington Beach, San Bernardino and Berkeley were dismissed by U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney, who accused the U.S. Attorney’s Office of selective prosecution for pursuing suspected “far-right, white supremacist nationalists” but not “Antifa and other extremist, far-left groups.”
Carney wrote in his ruling that the government chose not to prosecute members of far-left extremist groups who “went to the same protests and rallies and engaged in the same violent acts as alleged against the defendant in this case.” The judge added that “by many accounts,” members of “Antifa and related far-left groups engaged in worse conduct and in fact instigated much of the violence that broke out at these otherwise constitutionally protected rallies to silence the protected speech of supporters of President Trump.”
With the charges dismissed, Judge Carney ordered Rundo released from federal custody. That order comes months after Rundo was extradited back to the United States from Romania to face the federal charges.
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This is the way.
A divided house when funded by its own means is a perfect circle jerk ...... lock n load and walk over the insurgents . May God be with you and act according to his Law. Our Republic is under attack.
A *militant, white supremacist group*????
Considering how the left labels anyone to the right of them with pejoratives, color me skeptical.
G W Bush
pigs fly.
For later.
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Cormac is all over the place, and has been overturned by the 9th Circuit on cases just like this one before. He independently decided that the death penalty in California was unconstitutional, among other things.
He’s a kook.
Does this article ever get around to mentioning which group he belongs to?
He fled to Romania, is his group funded by old Soviets?
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