Conservative SCOTUS Justices: Why isn't DOJ treating Dobbs protesters like January 6 attackers?
Conservative SCOTUS Justices: Why isn't DOJ treating Dobbs protesters like January 6 attackers?
Well, for starters, the Supreme Court protestors, as near as I can tell, aren't breaking down windows and doors trying to get in, beating people with flagpoles, carrying zip ties with which to kidnap and detain justices, setting up gallows, or chanting "Hang Clarence Thomas." (There's an uncomfortable image if I ever saw one.)
For all the people who upvoted this and clearly didn't read the article. . .let me quote the relevant part:
Alito acknowledged, “What happened on January 6 was very, very serious, and I’m not equating this with that.” But, he continued, “We need to find out what are the outer reaches of this statute under your interpretation.”
It's like 200 words into the article.
Seems like it would be pretty typical to see how wide a net prosecutors are casting with their interpretation. He's clearly not saying nor suggesting that they should be charged, only asking if they would be charged under their current interpretation.
So what I'm hearing is, we should treat SCOTUS the same way Trump supporters treated Congress on 1/6?
Is that really the argument they want to make?
Lol.. I do like your point. However, it seems like what they are saying is that you have to prove they intended harm on those conducting official proceedings. Attacking a police officer is good evidence, but it doesn't necessarily show an intent to harm those conducting the proceeding.
They were beating officers and breaking doors and windows so they could get into the chambers and shake the hands of their elected representatives!
it seems like what they are saying is that you have to prove they intended harm on those conducting official proceedings.
Uh huh.
So I guess breaking into Congress when it was closed to the public because of COVID, on the day Congress was meeting to certify the winner of an election Trump and his supporters refused to acknowledge he lost, bringing zip tie handcuffs, building a fucking gallows out front, chanting "Hang Mike Pence!", having guns on the Capitol grounds and stashed around DC, and literally beating the officers who were there to protect Congress, doesn't mean Trump supporters were there with "intention to harm?"
Yep, sounds exactly the same as being angry about America's still-extant racism which allows Black men to be murdered by cops to me!
If they stormed the Supreme Court and tried to hang a Republican justice I might see the parallel. I'd be silently wishing them godspeed, but I'd at least admit the justices had a fair point.
Damn, one of those protesters got shot after trying to go through the barricade setup because they got into the building like J6? The protesters literally just got signs out and were yelling in front of the building. May these illegitimate fucks die soon. Kavanaugh cant get cirrhosis fast enough.
I love how unflattering the pic of Alito is. While he's no looker at the best of times, this one captures his personality better than most.
Because only one of those groups were patsies led by a handful of traitors to our country in a plot to overthrow our elected government. And it wasn't the Dobbs protesters.
I'm sorry but patsies makes it sound like they were just gullible victims.
These justices can fuck all the way off but this headline is taken out of context.
From the article: Alito acknowledged, “What happened on January 6 was very, very serious, and I’m not equating this with that.” But, he continued, “We need to find out what are the outer reaches of this statute under your interpretation.”
For Real. J6 built a gallows.
They beat policemen to death and wiped their own feces on the walls of our Nation’s Capital.
(I am amazed how often this gets deleted by moderators on lemmy when I point this out)