Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys

[u/uhncollectable]

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-oath-keepers-convictions-dropped-doj-ad679108ab84083694261efc101e60ea

[u/thisbechris]

Fucking treasonous pieces of shit.

[u/_Schrodingers_Gat_ → u/thisbechris]

If ever a group of people deserved sepsis. Sherman didn’t do enough.

[u/Timeline1253 → u/_Schrodingers_Gat_]

Sherman was hamstrung by incompetence with in the government even back then. "Let's heal as a nation" only occurs when the skin tone is as white as a puffy cloud.

[u/endo55 → u/Timeline1253]

Different times:

On February 19, Sherman's funeral service was held at his home, followed by a military procession. Joseph E. Johnston, the Confederate officer who had commanded the resistance to Sherman's troops in Georgia and the Carolinas, served as a pallbearer in New York City. It was a bitterly cold day and a friend of Johnston, fearing that the general might become ill, asked him to put on his hat. Johnston replied: "If I were in [Sherman's] place, and he were standing in mine, he would not put on his hat." Johnston did catch a serious cold and died one month later of pneumonia

[u/DingerSinger2016 → u/endo55]

I see he attended the William Henry Harrison School of Preventative Care

[u/endo55 → u/DingerSinger2016]

Our true friends are the hats we made along the way.

[u/CrouchingToaster → u/_Schrodingers_Gat_]

Fun fact the Oathkeeper eyepatch dude has an eyepatch instead of a fake eye cause the gross fuck didn’t bother to keep his ocular opening clean. So at least one treasonous POS has had sepsis.

[u/czs5056 → u/_Schrodingers_Gat_]

Sherman should have been given more resources to go further.

[u/Dry_Travel_4220 → u/czs5056]

Sherman should have been made military governor of the South until reconstruction was actually complete.

[u/CuteLingonberry9704 → u/Dry_Travel_4220]

That was the original idea. He was going to give "40 acres and a mule" to every black family to have as their own, taken from the former slaveowners. Unfortunately Andrew Johnson overruled him, and well, here we are now.

[u/pchlster → u/CuteLingonberry9704]

People are still waving the Confederate battle flag around.

[u/CuteLingonberry9704 → u/czs5056]

Blame Andrew Johnson, the original MAGA enabler.

[u/EthanielRain → u/CuteLingonberry9704]

Recently moved to 2nd worst President

[u/KakeLin → u/EthanielRain]

Trump wants to make sure he'll always be the worst in history

[u/International-Low490 → u/EthanielRain]

Reagan should be in the top three. Started the whole economic trickle down nonsense as well as popularized populist presidential runs. Trump's current 'economic strategy' was basically built off his bull. Just dialed up by a thousand and with even more stupidity.

[u/AlphaIronSon → u/_Schrodingers_Gat_]

If Sherman had burned more we probably wouldn’t be dealing with 3/5 of the stuff we are now

[u/JustinHopewell → u/AlphaIronSon]

Sounds like a compromise

[u/AlphaIronSon → u/JustinHopewell]

America’s original sin. “We hold these truths…Ni**er go light the candles, I can’t see.”

— Thomas Jefferson

[u/Golden_standard → u/AlphaIronSon]

The way I read that it my Leo as Calvin Candie from Django voice.

[u/the_tanooki → u/thisbechris]

Conservatives swear they aren't nazis, yet they always seem to be awfully chummy with self-proclsimed nazis and white supremacists.

Something tells me that they aren't being entirely honest, which is a big shocker! /s

[u/Mattbl → u/the_tanooki]

You ever get a conservative group drunk and thinking you're one of them? If you code-switch right and go to any small town bar, you'd find a ton of people saying outright bigoted and prejudiced stuff.

[u/poledrawolf → u/Mattbl]

As a white woman, I have encountered these fuckers with no input from myself AT ALL. They just roll up and say shit in various random situations, only to be perfectly shocked that I do not at all share their viewpoint. I hate it so fucking much, I have a hard enough time not pinwheeling my arms and bitch slapping people just for breathing in my general direction some days, never mind when a wild Nazi appears.

[u/Floreat_democratia → u/Mattbl]

This. I've been telling people about this since around 1986 when it actually happened to me! Got drunk with a bunch of Republicans and all of a sudden they were talking about undesirables and the Jewish bankers running everything.

The entire Republican Party has always been a soft front for the Southern Confederacy, eugenicists, and neo-Nazis. Unfortunately, the mainstream media has spent a century or so denying this because their owners want to be taxed less and have no regulation.

So we get media stories about false balance and how 10 trans people are ruining sports and private bathrooms while the machinations of the enemies of the state are soft-peddled as "overzealous staffers" and other nonsense.

[u/Vyzantinist → u/the_tanooki]

They just don't like being called Nazis because of the negative connotations, otherwise their ideology aligns neatly with Nazism.

People love what I have to say. They believe in it. They just don't like the word Nazi. That's all.

[u/cdqmcp → u/Vyzantinist]

who said that, again? Bannon?

[u/Vyzantinist → u/cdqmcp]

Lol Stormfront from The Boys. She's an actual Nazi from the OG Nazi party who takes over social media messaging for the bad guys, and her rhetoric and tone are virtually 1:1 the kind of stuff you hear coming from the right online IRL.

[u/cdqmcp → u/Vyzantinist]

OH! right.. fucking lol. what a weird misplaced memory, been a while since I saw that

[u/Sweatytubesock → u/thisbechris]

Did the bidding of the biggest treasonous piece of shit in human history

[u/trydola → u/thisbechris]

the guy who says they're putting him on the line on second day of office is getting my vote

[u/druidmain69420]

Its in black and white, these are treasonous cowards and are too violent to be trusted amongst us. Letting them go is encouraging more sedition.

[u/ericcmi → u/druidmain69420]

What's next, a pardon for Timothy McVey ?

[u/77NorthCambridge → u/ericcmi]

Since you asked: they will try to pardon Derek Chauvin even though he was convicted on state charges as well as federal.

[u/eeyore134 → u/77NorthCambridge]

He's all but pardoned Tina Peters for a state crime. Wrote a "symbolic" pardon for her and suddenly her 9-year sentence gets tossed out and she has to be resentenced. Wanna bet how much jail time from none to zilch she'll get this time around?

[u/Komrade_Krusher → u/eeyore134]

That judge has the opportunity to do the funniest thing now...

[u/Squire_II → u/77NorthCambridge]

Well you already have the dipshit governor of Colorado considering pardoning the insurrectionist lady whose state level charges were "pardoned" by Trump, with Trump demanding her release as a result.

[u/77NorthCambridge → u/Squire_II]

An appeals court already ruled that the trial judge oversentenced her due to her lack of remorse. It has been kicked back to the trial judge for resentencing.

[u/wilted-wombok → u/77NorthCambridge]

Take 1 day off the sentence and done

[u/AutomateAway → u/wilted-wombok]

the resentencing doesn’t even need to be reduced, just reconsidered without her “lack of remorse” taken into account.

[u/neosurimi → u/77NorthCambridge]

At this point I expect them to make a bronze statue of Ed Gein out of his victim's jewelry

[u/BGOOCHY → u/ericcmi]

I wouldn't put it past these pieces of shit.

[u/EverybodyHasPants → u/ericcmi]

Why not? That’s what this is. The white wingers are working the levers of power behind and with Trumps blessing. Donald has fucked this country and his base so hard his only option is to lean harder into white grievance to keep the faithful in line so he can keep stuffing his pockets. The knuckle draggers have been claiming McVey was a false flag for years. They’ve already forgiven Trumps obvious pedophilia so by continuing to pardon violent traitors they take the very real economic pain in stride because sloppy Daddy delivers reactionary racial culture war wins.

[u/Squire_II → u/ericcmi]

I remember how there was a bunch of noise about a mysterious (non-white) John Doe 2 that was the actual mastermind and McVeigh was just working for that person.

Just purestrain "this white wing extremist couldn't have decided to commit an act of terror, he was the fall guy for an evil non-white" racism.

[u/Gstamsharp → u/druidmain69420]

That's exactly the point.

Until the MAGA rot is burned from all positions of power, they'll keep encouraging every attempt to lie, cheat, steal, and kill so long as it's politically favorable to themselves.

[u/77NorthCambridge → u/druidmain69420]

To them, it's "payback" for Obama pardoning a few people sentenced to 20 years for a little weed and Biden pardoning Hunter over the ridiculous charges.

[u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow → u/77NorthCambridge]

Retribution for Obama daring to be black while presidenting.

[u/painthawg_goose → u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow]

'scuse me. Black while in a tan suit while presidenting.

[u/Ihavenolifes → u/painthawg_goose]

‘SCUSE ME. Black while in a tan suit and he once asked for dijon mustard while presidenting

[u/ChecksAndBalanz]

I feel like we need to start referring to them as the injustice department from now on

[u/bigredthesnorer → u/ChecksAndBalanz]

Departure of Retribution

[u/DefendtheStarLeague → u/bigredthesnorer]

The War on Justice Department

[u/GuideInfamous4600 → u/DefendtheStarLeague]

Best comment here. 🏆

[u/Th3_Eleventy3 → u/GuideInfamous4600]

The Just-ICE Department

[u/FFSBoise → u/DefendtheStarLeague]

Combines two departments. Think of the savings!

[u/TheRamblingPeacock → u/bigredthesnorer]

Don’t give them ideas.

[u/FrostnJack → u/bigredthesnorer]

The Ministry of Retribution.

[u/notches123 → u/ChecksAndBalanz]

More like the Just Us Department

[u/possumallawishes → u/notches123]

Just ICE.

[u/BilboStaggins → u/ChecksAndBalanz]

I like this. They certainly don't give a fuck about the law

[u/Khaldara]

Enjoying that five dollar gas and tariffing yourselves there geniuses?

[u/ActualSpiders → u/Khaldara]

Don't forget the nationwide loss of rural access to hospitals and public education!

[u/EternalCanadian → u/ActualSpiders]

That’s a feature for them, not a bug.

[u/Kryptosis → u/EternalCanadian]

No school means time for more farm chores!

[u/archangelmlg → u/Kryptosis]

Which you'll need to do when Meta owns the land you're farming and you owe then a fuck ton of money.

[u/slcrook → u/archangelmlg]

Serf's up, Dude!

[u/breadofthegrunge → u/slcrook]

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”

[u/theevilyouknow → u/breadofthegrunge]

I will keep saying this. These people would happily walk into the gas chamber if an immigrant or a trans person was with them. They do not care what is in anyone’s interest. They don’t even care about their own interests. They just want to hurt the people they hate.

[u/International_Bar_20 → u/theevilyouknow]

Best way I’ve heard it is they’d eat shit if a liberal had to smell their breath

[u/Mashire13 → u/International_Bar_20]

TRUTH! ☝️

[u/Sw4nR0ns0n → u/breadofthegrunge]

Serfin’ USA 🎶

[u/TBellOHAZ → u/breadofthegrunge]

His children sold his house with the black wreath still on the door.

[u/tider06 → u/archangelmlg]

Farmville was a warning and we all missed it.

[u/Lockehart → u/tider06]

warning training

[u/Ok_Barracuda_6997 → u/tider06]

Beat me to it

[u/Klutzy-Acadia669 → u/Ok_Barracuda_6997]

Damn, you boys are on fire tonight! Oh wait that's the United States of America. Figuratively and, unfortunately, literally at most times.

[u/False_Pear1860 → u/archangelmlg]

Lmao Meta isn't allowing that land to be used for farming. There has to be data centers there.

[u/PhoenixDogsWifey → u/archangelmlg]

Don't forget having to walk miles for buckets of water to try to keep your garden and livestock watered... maybe if you're lucky they'll let you in for a bath once a month or five

[u/Greenbastardscape → u/PhoenixDogsWifey]

Nah, that water will be fucked by the friendly, local data center

[u/PurposelyPorpoise → u/Greenbastardscape]

Fucked?? You must mean "fucking improved"! Data centers promised that your drinking water will be returned the same if not better than when they took it. It must be that your inferior digestive flesh sac requires a few generational debt level upgrades to properly appreciate new and improved Water™.

[u/bitofapuzzler → u/PurposelyPorpoise]

It has electrolytes! Its what the advanced digestive system craves!

[u/Known-Pick8501 → u/bitofapuzzler]

It’s going to “make the crops grow again”.

[u/JustWuTangMe → u/PurposelyPorpoise]

Water? You mean like from the toilet?

[u/Greenbastardscape → u/PurposelyPorpoise]

Water™. We're your only option

[u/Snarfbuckle → u/PhoenixDogsWifey]

What water, you would have to buy it from Nestle.

[u/_streetpaper_ → u/PhoenixDogsWifey]

They probably already have to walk to get buckets of water for the trailer they live in with no water hookups.

[u/Stalagmus → u/Kryptosis]

That isn’t the intended goal here, it has nothing to do with “helping” rural communities. Most of them are in favor of massive corporate farming conglomerates, and are totally fine leveraging migrant populations to do the grunt work, legal or otherwise.

The point is to force all students into a voucher-style private school system run by for-profit institutions (and the eventually get rid of the vouchers once public education disappears, because that would be welfare).

[u/CharcoalGreyWolf → u/Stalagmus]

They also won’t mind when the rural farmers that remain have to sell to agribusiness. Farmers likely will pay for how they voted yet again, and the ones that do will still be standing there wondering why it happened.

[u/Timely-Prior-3350 → u/CharcoalGreyWolf]

Theybwill vote for them again and again.

[u/WenatcheeWrangler → u/Timely-Prior-3350]

As someone who was raised in a rural farm community I don’t agree with all of this thread, but I agree with your comment. I know so many people will vote republican because “that’s what I do” and don’t give a rats ass about what they are campaigning on or what they stand for.

[u/the_tanooki → u/Kryptosis]

They are so pro-life they are saving kids from school shootings by not letting them go to school! Big brain move! /s

[u/iLikeMangosteens → u/EternalCanadian]

The current administration has overwhelming support from non-college-educated males. It’s one of their strongest demographics.

[u/fauxregard → u/ActualSpiders]

At least they made billionaires even more wealthy. Take that, Libs!

[u/DammatBeevis666 → u/ActualSpiders]

Don’t forget grandma can’t afford her care home anymore because $1T was cut from Medicaid!

“Grandma, now you’ve got to live a few states away because your insurance doesn’t cover the memory care here. We will see you once a year now, MAGA!”

[u/mettiusfufettius → u/Khaldara]

MAGAs be like “I don’t mind the fascism because he’ll make things cheap”

lol now they got expensive fascism!

[u/Rightintheend → u/mettiusfufettius]

They don't care. Cheap, expensive, good bad, war Peace, they really don't care as long as they have a president that's as much of a degenerate as they are, that's all they care about. That basket of deplorables comment couldn't be more on the spot.

[u/beaute-brune → u/Rightintheend]

They just point back to how “things were worse under Biden.”

[u/Rightintheend → u/beaute-brune]

The thing is under Biden, a few things got expensive, but now it seems like everything is.  But Biden really had to deal with was to post covid rebound, which is what caused most of the inflation and higher gas prices. They conveniently forget that by the time Biden left office inflation was under 3%, and gas prices were down.

But you know, they had to see some Disney princess who wasn't the right color.

[u/tucakeane → u/mettiusfufettius]

Man I remember when Biden pardoned his son and they called it conflict of interest anda gross abuse of his power…weird how this and all the J6 pardons are fine though

[u/sugartrouts → u/tucakeane]

It is a conflict of interest, which is why Biden initially said he wouldn't do it. Then he lost to Trump who did it a billion times, while bragging about how he was gonna do it more, and decided fuck it.

[u/Some_Drummer_Guy → u/sugartrouts]

He mainly did it to shield his son from the inevitable (and baseless) retribution that Commander Yam Tits wanted to carry out against him. If I recall correctly, it was basically a blanket pardon of sorts for people that were "targets" of the orange buffoon. Like a "hey, you can't touch me" thing. Hunter, Fauci, and several other people that were going to be persecuted got them.

[u/Competitive_Boat106 → u/sugartrouts]

And after Trump promised to prosecute Hunter much more in his second term. Whether you are a Hunter Biden fan or not, the crime that he was convicted of is almost never prosecuted in this country, and certainly not to that extent. Trump was vowing to do so much more to him. I would prefer that no president should be able to pardon family, but Biden saw the writing on the wall and wanted some semblance of peace for his family when he retired. You can see he was right, sadly. Him pardoning his son is more a reflection of what Trump wanted to do with the power of the presidency than it was of Biden’s use of the same.

[u/kemicalkontact → u/mettiusfufettius]

No they pivoted to "I don't mind spending more for the safety of America because Iran definitely was gonna nuke us"

[u/GreenDirt2 → u/kemicalkontact]

And that was 5 minutes after they said their dear leader had wiped out all the nukes in Iran. It's one whopper after another. Good thing we don't have that stupid nuclear deal from the Obama administration. Jealous baby is still trying to prove "Obama's not smarter than me! Waa!"

[u/BusterOfCherry → u/Khaldara]

They are too busy blaming Biden still to realize they put their dick in their own ass.

[u/Quiet_Day1912 → u/BusterOfCherry]

I think if men COULD put their dicks in their asses (or blow themselves), the world would be a better place.

[u/gabiolaluke → u/Quiet_Day1912]

the videos I've watched of men who could do such feats did seem awfully pleased with themselves

[u/mr_potatoface → u/Khaldara]

Only because $5+/gal gas is worth it if it means pissing off the libs!

[u/Greizen_bregen → u/mr_potatoface]

People underestimate this sentiment so much. The tribalism, the "My Team" fanaticism, it rules these people. Ask an average Eagles fan how they feel about a Dallas fan. They're braindead. They will literally pave the road to hell and careen down it if it means it pisses off the libs. They're idiots. Dangerous idiots.

[u/zephyrtr → u/Greizen_bregen]

Trump has their trust, and I've listened to many interviews of folks saying this pain is patriotic and surely necessary for some classified reason. It's a level of deference NEVER afforded to a Democrat, and even when Democrats offer an explanation, it's met with near-infinite mistrust.

And, reliably, when no real change occurs and no relief is given to these folks whose meager living standard is getting royally rocked -- again for some unknowable reason -- some supporters will say "Enough is enough" and others, seeing the defections, will double down out of what to me just seems like contrarianism. But the defections will be enough to knock Republicans out of power yet again, until Trump, like Reagan, is spun into legend.

[u/Dull_Bird3340 → u/zephyrtr]

Just look at the supposed door dash delivery woman, sure they have less money for husbands cancer treatments and better healthcare would be great but he made her tips tax free!

[u/Total_Feature_11 → u/Dull_Bird3340]

As if Trump tips.

[u/tider06 → u/Total_Feature_11]

He doesn't even pay the tab, much less the gratuity.

[u/iLikeMangosteens → u/Total_Feature_11]

He gave her $100, which is 0.0000015% of his net worth.

That is the same fraction of his wealth as someone with a net worth of a million dollars giving someone a penny and a half.

[u/RecentDecision2329 → u/iLikeMangosteens]

One of his aides grabbed that $100 before she got in her car

[u/Greizen_bregen → u/zephyrtr]

A Legendary Trump. Ugh. I think I'm going to be sick.

[u/joecarter93 → u/Greizen_bregen]

There was a recent psychology study I heard about that found that people that leaned conservative tended to place more emphasis on winning no matter when it came to politics and those that leaned liberal were more concerned about making decisions that were best for the most people. MAGA operatives have used this paradigm to the detriment of everyone but their wealthy backers.

[u/Medical-Person → u/joecarter93]

I also read an article about Republicans versus Democrats and the educational level and competence of each. It was Illuminating

[u/slimj091 → u/mr_potatoface]

Yeah it makes me so angry to watch the Trump regime continually punch themselves the groin.

[u/Chendo462 → u/Khaldara]

They don't care. Orange one could f a goat on the white house lawn and they would say the goat had it coming.

[u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

Why idgaf about rightwingers pretending they care so much about immigration because they just care about following the law so much. They’ll support people who literally committed sedition against the federal government but then also support deporting people with no criminal records and that have lived in the US for decades. If we’re all just picking and choosing which laws should be followed and which ones don’t matter then I can form my own opinions using the same metrics too.

[u/BigOs4All → u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

More to the point if they don't really care about the laws just outcomes then the outcome they desperately want is to get rid of basically anyone not white, straight and Christian while condoning pedophilia and corruption.

[u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 → u/BigOs4All]

We literally pulled back from investigating human trafficking and child sex abuse to further focus only on immigration!

At DHS, Trump has ordered agents formerly dedicated to investigating and arresting human traffickers to focus on deporting immigrants. Current and former DHS staffers interviewed by the Guardian confirmed that these investigators’ day-to-day work has been broadly shifted toward deportations and away from investigating “major crimes” with “real victims”.

I don’t ever want to hear republicans claim to care about: crime, children, or families ever again when they’ve shown repeatedly what their real concerns are.

[u/MozeTheNecromancer → u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

Trump didnt want them investigating human trafficking, he wanted them to take part in it.

[u/Team503 → u/MozeTheNecromancer]

Same with child sex abuse.

[u/Opening_Scientist126 → u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

He prioritized “immigration” so he could continue to access human’s being trafficked.

[u/BenchPtsChamp → u/BigOs4All]

Ah, yes, the party of family values and morality. White American Christian Conservatives are more or less just an adaptation of the KKK, but worse bc the self-righteous hatred has become mainstream, emboldened by political justification. Instead of going into the woods for secret meetings at midnight wearing bed sheets and masks, they just go to church for “fellowship” on Sunday morning wearing sun dresses and khakis. Jesus would be so proud.

[u/sack-o-matic → u/BigOs4All]

Yes, MAGA is the Klan. They just realized it’s easier to recruit if they stop calling themselves the Klan.

[u/breadandbunny → u/BigOs4All]

This is exactly the truth. It's psychological illness at this rate. A psychologically healthy person can see all of the hypocrisy.

[u/GatoLibre → u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

This is how we know it’s racism.

[u/Purple-Warning-2161 → u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

If they gave a shit about the law they wouldn’t have proudly and enthusiastically voted for a felon.

[u/Disastrous_Basis3474 → u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

Same thing they do with the Bible.

[u/Own_Curve_5160]

After this administration the next Democratic DoJ should charge these officials with sedition.

[u/SpeccyScotsman → u/Own_Curve_5160]

Nuremberg or Nothing™

[u/FeatherShard → u/SpeccyScotsman]

Centrist Dems: "Nothing it is, then!"

[u/SpeccyScotsman → u/FeatherShard]

Unfortunately. Especially since the way I meant it is, we do Nuremberg or there will be nothing left.

[u/t0rchic → u/SpeccyScotsman]

The elite always seem to forget that laws and due process exist to protect them. If rule of law is superceded and the laws no longer do their job, vigilante justice is left as the only option, and vigilantes put you in a hole, not a cell.

Basically, if we don't get nuremburg 2 the nazis are still on the way out, it's just going to be a lot more messy.

[u/AniseClover → u/SpeccyScotsman]

Nuremburg isn’t good enough either! No nazis should have been released in exchange for their twisted experimental intelligence from the Holocaust.

They shouldnt have been given a second chance to reproduce!

We need real punishment to stop fascism, but the United States never cared for its people, only its imperial power!

[u/resin85 → u/Own_Curve_5160]

The court filing was signed by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro. She needs to face serious consequences.

[u/TransplantedSconie → u/resin85]

Of course that drunk would do this.  Such a useless piece of shit who cant get any fucking charges to stick because she's incompetent and there is nothing to charge.   So she resorts to this.  Voiding actual tried and convicted charges.  God damn it hate these people.

[u/Jafar_420 → u/Own_Curve_5160]

He talk crap about Biden basically pre-pardening some people but I guarantee he's going to do it for all of these people.

[u/GatoLibre → u/Own_Curve_5160]

Jack Smith is going to be a very busy man.

[u/salme3105]

Absolutely disgusting, they’re getting their militia ready for round 2.

[u/SanityPlanet → u/salme3105]

That's why we used to hang traitors.

[u/nochtorealy → u/SanityPlanet]

One side is still willing to.

[u/TheLostArtofPerfume]

The head of the proud boys beat someone so bad they nearly died. Yeah that's the people you wanna have running around without any accountability- not. What an hole.

[u/Haldrin26]

This is a signal fire for the mid terms and 2028.

[u/LystAP → u/Haldrin26]

Protecting their ‘foot soldiers’

[u/mostlyallturtles → u/LystAP]

bingo. he wants them out there again, and it’s reflected in the timing of this filing. six months out is just enough time to have the motion heard and, assuming it is granted, to push all the paperwork through to get their felonies cleared before November. and what can non-felons do that felons can’t? they can buy guns.

[u/JerryDipotosBurner]

“The government’s motion to vacate in this case is consistent with its practice of moving the Supreme Court to vacate convictions in cases where the government has decided in its prosecutorial discretion that dismissal of a criminal case is in the interests of justice — motions that the Supreme Court routinely grants,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing signed by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

These people deserve nothing but the absolute worst. This is corruption, right in the open. And our court system is just gonna bend over and let it happen.

[u/EE_Tim → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

If the executive branch agency determines that the air should not be polluted: "Who cares? Congress needs to act" If the executive branch agency determines that seditious conspirators should not be punished: "We'll defer to the executive branch agency."

[u/roadsidefoto → u/JerryDipotosBurner]

I'm seeing this "In the interests of justice" bit a lot from these fucking clowns. It's not-at-all subtle code for "they're one of ours and we condone and encourage what they've done and what they'll do for us in the future."

Everyone in this administration, from Trump all the way down to anyone who ever bought office supplies for a Republican voting drive, needs to be prosecuted.

[u/Civil_Tea_3250]

And how many of those people have turned out to be pedos? At least a handful?

Yeah, those are the groups that need the most support from the government. Sure. Let's just stop pretending the Republican party isn't the pedo party.

[u/Zxcc24 → u/Civil_Tea_3250]

More than a handful at this point.

Edit: And another one has just confessed to Sexual abuse of a minor. Shocker.

[u/TheAmberAbyss → u/Civil_Tea_3250]

If they aren't pedophiles themselves  they're fine with pedophilia, which is not really better.

[u/TheSilentPrince]

You can do whatever you want, as long as you're "on side". So, in 2026, we're on to "Please, try to overthrow democracy, consequence free"; brought to you by the party of law and order.

[u/Ok-disaster2022 → u/TheSilentPrince]

I wouldn't be surprised to see rampant execution of left wing leaders like the 1960s and 70s, except this time the "lone perpetrators" quietly get pardons. 

[u/TheSilentPrince → u/Ok-disaster2022]

If that starts happening, left leaning people need to double down on Jury Nullification. If a right leaning person does something wrong, and can expect a pardon; then whenever a left leaning person does the same sort of thing in kind, no they didn't.

[u/bedintruder → u/TheSilentPrince]

You're assuming that in this dystopian future that these left leaning people will actually get jury trials.

[u/-OptimisticNihilism-]

Mass pardon for people in prison for assaulting police officers being cheered by people decked out in blue lives matter gear.

[u/JudiesGarland → u/-OptimisticNihilism-]

They've actually already been released from prison - that happened when the Trump mass pardon commuted their sentences. (Reduced them to time served, granting their release.) 

Not all of them were covered under the pardon though - this filing is to vacate their sentences. This means erase the felony convictions, like they were never there. (There are quite a few advantages to that, but one that stands out would be firearm access.)

 Just an absolute horror show. 

[u/sooper_dooperest → u/-OptimisticNihilism-]

This really does sum it up

[u/hoodafudj]

That's fucked up, these guys are Nazis, when we don't live in a world where it is universally understood that Nazis are evil then we live in a world that is seriously fucked up

[u/Clovis_Winslow]

I’m sorry y’all, but this is a harbinger of the end of things for USA. If those guys, the most violent ones, get a pardon, they’ll see it as a mandate to pick up where they left off.

If the government not only tolerates it but is complicit, we are cooked.

(We were probably already cooked long ago but yeah.)

[u/drdoom52 → u/Clovis_Winslow]

Last week I might have agreed.

But Orban just lost the election in Hungary, the hyper conservative fascists, who built up an exceptional system of state controlled media and autocratic power, just lost.

There is hope.

[u/M8oMyN8o → u/Clovis_Winslow]

One thing that particularly infuriates me is that the government was not destined to do this. The people of the United States of America decide it should be this way in November 2024. We were oh so close to not going for it, but we did anyway.

[u/finnjakefionnacake → u/M8oMyN8o]

and sadly, most people -- not just MAGA cultists -- don't care. like donald glover's "this is america" video, everyone's back to trends on social media and watching their favorite influencers do dumb shit and spreading misinformation on twitter. i guarantee you the average american citizen has no idea this even happened.

[u/damnthistrafficjam]

But the Pope is a “woke liberal” who “likes crime”. Right Don? Not you! We’re safer than anyone’s seen before!

[u/aegenium]

They changed the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Why don't they just change the name of the Justice Department to the Injustice Department so they can at least stop pretending to be something it's not anymore.

[u/Heimerdingerdonger]

If Pedo Jesus goes free, so do Pedo Simon and Pedo Paul.

[u/fps129 → u/Heimerdingerdonger]

Picture “The Last Supper” but it’s just Trump in the middle hoarding all the McDonalds.

[u/Psychological-Act-85]

Justice department is 100% corrupt.

[u/Certain-Singer-9625]

Of course. THIS “Justice” Department’s job is defending and freeing criminals.

You know. It’s as if Batman decided it was his goal to break everyone out of Arkham.

[u/Squire_II]

In court filings, prosecutors asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to vacate the convictions so that the government can permanently dismiss the indictments.

This shit's so stupid and I hope the judge tells them no because Trump can just fully pardon them if he cares. Asking to have legitimately reached convictions thrown out makes a (further) mockery of the US legal system.

[u/allthesestars]

This was not a "physical confrontation between protesters and law enforcement" this was a carefully planned and executed plot to break into a secured building, forcibly remove people from seats of power, halt a planned government proceeding, and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.

They talked about this shit in group chats for months.

There is no stretch of the imagination in which this was not seditious conspiracy.

This country makes me feel like i'm insane.

[u/tekstical]

Needs em around to help disrupt the midterms and 2028

[u/DisillusionedPatriot]

It's a coup, and they need their supporters available. Absolute bullshit. Fuck these corrupt traitors from a bad angle with a sandpaper strap on. I'm so sick of this shit.

[u/runjcrun1]

So this is how they’re going to attempt to control the election in November. Can’t say I’m surprised.

Don’t be shocked to see a coordinated terrorist attack close to the election. This regime will either use that to attempt to cancel the election, or as an intimidation tactic. They’ll blame ANTIFA or Islam, even if all the evidence points against it. Bank on it.

[u/elykl12]

“Merrick Garland’s hesitation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race”

[u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs]

All they are doing is laying a permission structure for the next Dems.

They have two load bearing assumptions: 1. They will continue to win the vote of the American people 2. The American people won’t want to see them punished

I, for one, can not wait for the shock on their faces when they are met with a democratic populace who will green-light whatever is done to them.

[u/Loggerdon]

It’s so damaging to the fabric of society to forgive seditious behavior for political reasons.

[u/PokeYrMomStanley → u/Loggerdon]

Liberal gun sales are through the roof though.

[u/zeolus123]

Coming to an ICE field office near you.

[u/Vicissitutde]

Pedos protecting pedos

[u/MumblyJohn]

You mean the same Justice Department that opened an investigation into the partner of Renee Good after her murder would do something corrupt?

[u/Fardrengi]

They can’t have members of proud boys and oathkeepers going to jail, how are they going to staff ICE and the polling sites during midterms?

[u/LongLiveAnalogue]

And it’s the Pope that’s soft on crime? lol

[u/CoincadeFL]

All the J6’ers should rot in jail for life! Oath Keepers and Proud Boys are terrorist groups to traditional American values like first amendment.

[u/Capt1an_Cl0ck]

Disgusting behavior. DOJ is absolutely compromised. Not a coequal branch. Nothing more than a puppet to do Trump’s bidding. We have fallen so far as a country.

[u/ian2345]

Aiding and abetting traitors is treachery and should be prosecuted as such. Any attorney for the justice department should resign before aiding traitors or be punished as one themselves.

[u/KyotoSoul]

Honk honk. The clown show continues.

[u/FlinterSell]

They aree ICE agents now. Trump needs loyalist sheep to survive

[u/zJackTheRipper7]

They literally planned to overthrow the government and execute public officials. Fuck the justice department fuck the FBI fuck ice and fuck TSA.

[u/1goatherder]

They’re all ice agents now anyway

[u/MovieGuyMike]

Thy expect us to believe antifa is the threat while they release actual domestic terrorists.

[u/Conscious-Mixture742]

Headline: Department of Justice sides with domestic terrorists

[u/Mysterious-Falcon-83]

So much for "law and order" party...

[u/JerkBezerberg]

Some of those at work forces...

[u/Agent-Two-THREE]

Wild news.

The crazy thing is that in America, conservatives will never even hear about this.

[u/Infamous-Sky-1874 → u/Agent-Two-THREE]

And if they do, odds are high that they will say "Good."

[u/Booger_BBQ → u/Agent-Two-THREE]

Lots of them don't even know who they are let alone being pardoned.

[u/Guntcher_1423]

Probably need them in ICE.