A series of skeptical questions
I remember when Republicans were the Law n Order party. Seems like forever ago.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical of a charge federal prosecutors have lodged against hundreds of people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
While the court’s three-justice liberal wing signaled support for the charge, the conservative majority raised a series of skeptical questions about its potential scope and whether it would criminalize other conduct, such as protests.
A decision against the government could reopen some 350 cases in which defendants have been charged with “obstructing” an official proceeding by pushing their way into the Capitol in 2021. The charge can tack up to 20 years onto a prison sentence.
I mean honestly. If people physically violently bashing their way into the Capitol is okie doke then what would be obstructing an official proceeding? Dropping nukes?
Doing it to help Democrats.
I don’t believe for one second they’d have the same opinion if a violent mob of thousands physically bashed their way into the Supreme Court Building at Trump’s behest in order to overturn a Supreme Court decision he disfavoured.
Hypocrites.
I think “law and order” only applied to hippies and druggies when Nixon talked about it on the campaign trail. During the Iran-Contra trials of SuperPatriots, conservatives were excusing Oliver North and the Reagan/Bush Sr officials, who had sold weapons to Iranian terrorits to fund Somosista terrorists, as doing the wrong things for the right reasons.
If these Jan 6 SuperPatriots were sacrificing their sacred honor to stop a stolen election from being ratified, is it really wrong? I mean, really really wrong? They’re just some good ol’ boys who love their country.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 –1865) who steered the US through its greatest crisis to date: its one and only civil war, was a Republican. F.D Roosevelt (1882-1945) who managed the US response to the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, was a Democrat.
And Donald Trump’s Republicans are a complete new breed. So Charles Darwin was right.
It seems relevant that a nontrivial amount of the “mostly peaceful” vandalism and arson during the 2020 summer of love was aimed at government buildings from municipal to federal. Democrats and non-conservative media shielded much of this by putting it in the category of protest.
I know that seems like a tu quoque, and it sort of is, but the point is not to say that the conservative justices are right. Rather, it’s to be careful to avoid hypocrisy.