Posted on 03/18/2024 5:58:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
In late 2023 and early 2024, the number of FBI arrests and new criminal cases opened on January 6, 2021, accelerated to the point that federal courts in the District of Columbia could no longer support the weight.
Reportedly, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged and arrested ninety-three persons in the last two months. According to one estimate, at the present pace, there might be 445 new cases on the docket in 2024—more than in 2022 and 2023. In all, the FBI had detained 1,358 persons as of March 6 and the DOJ had filed criminal charges against them for offenses connected to the Capitol breach that occurred on January 6, 2021.
According to Brigham Young University assistant professor of sociology Jacob Rugh, the total number of arrests by the time the statute of limitations on offenses committed on January 6th ends in early 2026 might reach 2,150 if the present trend continues. Since August 2022, Mr. Rugh and researcher Isabella Felin have been sharing data visualizations and information related to January 6 on the social media sites X and Instagram. Former federal prosecutor William Shipley, who has defended over 50 Jan. 6 offenders, claimed to have seen a spike in cases beginning in September 2023.
"It seems like you are seeing six, eight, or ten a week within the last two or three months," Mr. Shipley said on February 23 during an Epoch Times panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
"You see two or three more every day," Mr. Shipley said. In my opinion, it is a political ploy. Just my own viewpoint. It seems that the Biden administration and the Department of Justice are determined to maintain this narrative's prominence throughout the campaign.
According to Mr. Shipley, the backlog of cases in D.C. federal courts since January 6th resulted in a six- to eight-month suspension of arrests and prosecutions beginning in early 2023.
"There was a pause, and you do not have to arrest everyone and prosecute them in the first 18 months; you have a five-year statute of limitations," Mr. Shipley said. "It was evident that there was a period of time during which no appreciable number of arrests occurred."
Florida (129), Texas (104), Pennsylvania (93), California (90), New York (80), Ohio (71), and Virginia (67) are the states with the highest number of arrests. As a group, they make up about half of all defendants on January 6, according to Mr. Rugh's data.
According to DOJ statistics, almost 63% of criminal cases filed on January 6 have been decided, and defendants have received sentences. Roughly 58% of the offenders got jail or prison time; 19% received home detention; and the other 3.5 percent received a mix of the two.
According to the DOJ, of the 769 defendants who entered guilty pleas, 31% did so for felonies and 69% for misdemeanors. Officer-related offenses included assault, resistance, and obstruction, and there were 486 charges against 1,276 defendants for entering and staying in a prohibited structure or area.
Over 350 people faced the contentious accusation of "corruptly obstructing, influencing or impeding an official proceeding." On April 16, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about a challenge to the DOJ's use of corporate fraud laws from 2002 to prosecute defendants who interfered with the Electoral College vote counting on January 6.
Squeezing Injuns for info on the Chiefs, moving up to get the Big Chief. If you can’t find a conspiracy, conspire to make one.
FBI arrests and new criminal cases opened on January 6, 2021.
But can’t find 85.000 illegal missing kids in the U.S. because it doesn’t fit the democrats Trump agenda.
Hey, have the Demoncrats ... I mean Democrats a break. If it wasn’t for Jan 6th and abortion they wouldn’t any thing to campaign on.
“And the Biden licking “press” hasn’t written a word about it nor shown the slightest curiosity.”
They don’t want to draw attention to it for obvious reasons. It was merely a FF backup plan that they didn’t need then, but may use again at some point in the future.
Say what you want about Mitch McConnell, but at least he kept Garland from getting appointed to the Supreme Court.
“Hey, have the Demoncrats ... I mean Democrats a break. If it wasn’t for Jan 6th and abortion they wouldn’t any thing to campaign on.”
Not true. They could always fall back on the Bidenomics excellent economy and the “mostly secure” border.
but what you really need to worry about is how undemocratic Russia is./s
Meanwhile all those involved in the Jan. 20th 2017 terror attack to stop the inauguaration of Donald Trump.....
Oh yes, and thank you RINOpublican party for bringing this up which is never.
Gee, not like there aren’t tens of millions of South American gangsters being flown into the country by the DHS to worry about.
Gotta round up those political protesters and send ‘em to the DC Gulags.
But don’t worry, meek and mild little Mike Johnson will take care of all of it. Just as soon as he gets Chris Wray’s permission.
excellent points.
The DOJ/FBI - aka the official intimidation squad/KGB of the Democrat Party...
Details, details - Just hush up, put your blindfold back on and forget you saw anything...
Practically prophetic. I have ZERO doubts that, were Trump to overcome the massive fraud machine to actually “win” the 2025 election - the riots in the streets by the same demographic that rioted the Summer of 2020 will eclipse the violence we saw that year.
And lest we forget - Dems stormed the US Capital and got nothing.
It’s all a set-up.
Thats like asking congress to pass a term limit bill for themselves.
Arrested for walking through the capital building taking pictures.
They are Domestic Tourists. Domestic Tourism is a threat to Democracy.
Wow our government is totally rotten to the core!
All human governments eventually go that way. It is inevitable....................
And ray Epps, the main instigstor/infiltrator got what? A scolding?
“8 Times Left-Wing Protesters Broke Into Government Buildings And Assaulted Democracy
Left-wing demonstrators have long made a habit of attacking, infiltrating, and occupying government buildings
elf-absorbed congressional Democrats held a group therapy session on Capitol Hill on Thursday as they work tirelessly to immortalize Jan. 6 as an annual day of doom, but the rest of us are old enough to remember a few more times when riots and protests overwhelmed government buildings with no such theatrical response.
More than a few times, actually. The 2020 summer of rage was more or less “incited” by these same top Democrats, who race-baited as if their lives depended on it, and even our vice president, who helped bail violent rioters out of jail. It featured a number of these attacks on the government (which strangely weren’t called attacks on democracy at the time). “
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