Fifteen people were charged Tuesday as part of the Trump admin's effort to go after its “antifa” boogeyman. Also: The "Broadview Six" aren't going away.
It's interesting reading this after reading about the federal government not fighting legal fees for the Broadview Six...supposedly because the DOJ doesn't want discovery in relation to these fees.
But until courts finally get off their butts and start sanctioning the DOJ players, this will keep happening.
Geidner accurately assesses that the government's concession that the Broadview Six are entitled to recovery of legal fees is driven by the existence of something worse. Here's my speculation.
The Chicago US Attorney, Andrew Boutros, was pushed into this prosecution by high-ranking officials at the Department of Justice. Todd Blanche is a likely suspect, because disclosure of his participation would endanger his bid to become Attorney General.
That possibility might have been replicated in the Texas case Geidner mentions, and in the indictment just handed down in Minneapolis, and in other jurisdictions. Pulling on the thread may reveal the willingness of the DoJ to do Trump's bidding, regardless of legal standards set out in DoJ prosecution policies.
The DOJ in Trump’s second term is a disgrace to the traditions of that department. The DOJ attorneys appear to be either incompetent clowns or arrant scoundrels or both. There needs to be a calling to account at the highest level of the DOJ and in the various offices where the politically motivated prosecutions have resulted in indictments and /or failed indictments. The DOJ needs to be refocused on pursuing solid indictments of persons credibly accused of criminal activity under applicable federal statutes such as those agents implicated in the deaths of protesters and the serious injuries to others.
The left’s favorite game is to demand impossible formalism for its own street networks while treating every conservative rally as a command-and-control conspiracy. Antifa is not a ghost story. It is a militant ecosystem: chats, masks, doxxing, rapid mobilization, anti-ICE actions, courthouse pressure, and organized intimidation dressed up as “resistance.” Prosecutors still must prove each defendant’s conduct, and overcharging can backfire. Fine. Due process matters. But the premise that Antifa cannot be investigated because it is decentralized is absurd. RICO was built for networks. Conspiracy law was built for coordination. If La Cosa Nostra existed - and is currently prosecuted by the DOJ - so does Antifa.
I find it incredibly telling of how brainwashed MAGA is, that the Broadview 6 are believed by them to be terrorists and deserving of prosecution for just being outside a detention center and yelling, but the January 6th are pardoned for literal crimes against the US capital and its law enforcement done ON CAMERA. There's two sixes, but they are not equal.
Thank you, Chris. I was following the discussion on BlueSky but your explanation puts it all into layman context.
It's interesting reading this after reading about the federal government not fighting legal fees for the Broadview Six...supposedly because the DOJ doesn't want discovery in relation to these fees.
But until courts finally get off their butts and start sanctioning the DOJ players, this will keep happening.
PS Good piece on pulling both cases together and filling in the gaps
Geidner accurately assesses that the government's concession that the Broadview Six are entitled to recovery of legal fees is driven by the existence of something worse. Here's my speculation.
The Chicago US Attorney, Andrew Boutros, was pushed into this prosecution by high-ranking officials at the Department of Justice. Todd Blanche is a likely suspect, because disclosure of his participation would endanger his bid to become Attorney General.
That possibility might have been replicated in the Texas case Geidner mentions, and in the indictment just handed down in Minneapolis, and in other jurisdictions. Pulling on the thread may reveal the willingness of the DoJ to do Trump's bidding, regardless of legal standards set out in DoJ prosecution policies.
The DOJ in Trump’s second term is a disgrace to the traditions of that department. The DOJ attorneys appear to be either incompetent clowns or arrant scoundrels or both. There needs to be a calling to account at the highest level of the DOJ and in the various offices where the politically motivated prosecutions have resulted in indictments and /or failed indictments. The DOJ needs to be refocused on pursuing solid indictments of persons credibly accused of criminal activity under applicable federal statutes such as those agents implicated in the deaths of protesters and the serious injuries to others.
The left’s favorite game is to demand impossible formalism for its own street networks while treating every conservative rally as a command-and-control conspiracy. Antifa is not a ghost story. It is a militant ecosystem: chats, masks, doxxing, rapid mobilization, anti-ICE actions, courthouse pressure, and organized intimidation dressed up as “resistance.” Prosecutors still must prove each defendant’s conduct, and overcharging can backfire. Fine. Due process matters. But the premise that Antifa cannot be investigated because it is decentralized is absurd. RICO was built for networks. Conspiracy law was built for coordination. If La Cosa Nostra existed - and is currently prosecuted by the DOJ - so does Antifa.
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I find it incredibly telling of how brainwashed MAGA is, that the Broadview 6 are believed by them to be terrorists and deserving of prosecution for just being outside a detention center and yelling, but the January 6th are pardoned for literal crimes against the US capital and its law enforcement done ON CAMERA. There's two sixes, but they are not equal.
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