The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Thursday morning as to whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution on charges related to alleged election misconduct. The justices’ decision will likely set a new precedent on the boundaries of presidential power and could significantly impact the pace of the 2024 presidential election campaign.
Reports claim that most legal analysts do not believe that the justices will decide that Trump has absolute immunity, but they may decide that he has partial immunity. This could require Joe Biden‘s Justice Department and special prosecutor Jack Smith to revisit some aspects of their prosecution. The justices could also refer elements of the case back to the lower courts so they can rule on the extent of any partial immunity.
If the Supreme Court takes a month to arrive at its decision, a possible trial date for the former president would be pushed to around autumn, deep into the presidential race. A later ruling, towards the end of June, could mean it has to be delayed until after the election in November.
This could deny Biden’s Justice Department the opportunity to brand Trump a felon before voters head to the polls or even imprison him. Trump could also direct the Justice Department to drop the charges or possibly issue himself a pardon if he wins.
PANDORA’S BOX.
Regarding the merits of Trump’s case, his lawyer, D. John Sauer, argues that authorizing “the prosecution of a president for official acts would open a Pandora’s box from which this nation may never recover.”
“If a president has to look over his shoulder or her shoulder every time he or she has to make a controversial decision and wonder if ‘after I leave office, am I going to jail for this when my political opponents take power?’ that inevitably dampens the ability of the president,” he explained.
While Trump’s prosecutors and political enemies have characterized this as an argument that presidents are “above the law,” Trump’s lawyers say the constitutionally proper way for presidents to be held to account for official acts is via Congress, through impeachment and a Senate trial.
Trump was acquitted of inciting an insurrection by the Senate in 2021. His lawyers also argue that attempting to try him for further offenses related to January 6 violates the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Thursday morning as to whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution on charges related to alleged election misconduct. The justices' decision will likely set a new precedent on the boundaries of presidential power and could significantly impact the pace of the 2024 presidential election campaign.
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Constitutional law professor John Eastman, a former legal advisor to Donald Trump, says his bank accounts with two major U.S. financial institutions were abruptly closed in the course of two months in late 2023. This phenomenon, known as “de-banking,” has targeted conservatives in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In June of 2023, Brexit leader Nigel Farage was informed that several of his UK bank accounts would be closed without explanation.
According to Eastman, Bank of America informed him in September 2023 that it would be closing his banking and other financial accounts. The second-largest banking institution in the U.S. offered the former Trump legal advisor no indication of why his account was being closed.
Following the notice from Bank of America, Eastman says he moved his accounts to USAA, a financial services and banking institution that serves military members, veterans, and their families. After just two months with USAA, the legal scholar received a notice that it would also close his accounts in November 2023. The bank cited its “Depository Agreement” as grounds for severing its business relationship with Eastman. Eastman was found preliminarily culpable on 11 charges related to advice he gave former President Trump on the 2020 election just several weeks prior to his de-banking by both institutions.
Bank of America has received tens of billions of taxpayer dollars through federal bailouts. The financial institution received an initial $15 billion in 2008 after the financial crisis. An additional $20 billion — along with a federal guarantee of $100 billion to help cover potential toxic asset losses from its absorption of Merrill Lynch & Co. — was awarded to Bank of America in early 2009. Both Bank of America and USAA also benefit from federal insurance programs.
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Constitutional law professor John Eastman, a former legal advisor to Donald Trump, says his bank accounts with two major U.S. financial institutions were abruptly closed in the course of two months in late 2023. This phenomenon, known as "de-banking," has targeted conservatives in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In June of 2023, Brexit leader Nigel Farage was informed that several of his UK bank accounts would be closed without explanation.
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Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) likened vocal parents who have expressed their anger with left-wingpolicies at local school board meetings to the protestors who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Kaine — who served as Hillary Clinton‘s running mate during the 2016 presidential election — made the remarks during a community event in Dumfries, Virginia, last Friday.
“I realized when I was barricaded in the Capitol on January 6 when it was under attack that the tension right now in this country, and in this world, is between those who will stand up for others and those who want to tear us down or tear us apart,” Kaine told the few supporters in attendance. He continued: “You see it at school board meetings when people come and raise hell at these school board members who are just trying to do the very best they can. There is a loud energy around tear-us-down and tear-us-apart.”
Hillary Clinton’s former running mate went on to accuse former President Donald Trump of being “the greatest tear down artist in the history of American politics.”
The comments come three years after the parental rights issue catapulted Republican Glenn Youngkin into the Virginia governor’s mansion. Youngkin rode a wave of voter anger over Virginia schools embracing transgender and DEI ideologies to victory over former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe in 2021. Analysis of election data shows that educational policy was, for many voters, a determining factor in Youngkin’s election win.
School boards in Virginia continue to face criticism over their management of transgender policies and the teaching of critical race theory. This controversy spilled over in Loudoun County last year, resulting in an entirely new school board being elected in November 2022.
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Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) likened vocal parents who have expressed their anger with left-wingpolicies at local school board meetings to the protestors who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Kaine — who served as Hillary Clinton's running mate during the 2016 presidential election — made the remarks during a community event in Dumfries, Virginia, last Friday.
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The three January 6 defendants challenging their convictions under the broad application of The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002’s “obstruction of an official proceeding” provision have been granted early release pending their appeal. In June, the United States Supreme Court is set to decide whether President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice overreached when broadly applying the 2002 financial regulatory law’s enhanced felonies to rioters at the U.S. Capitol.
Established in the wake of the Enron scandal, Sarbanes-Oxley ostensibly addresses crimes committed by individuals in the accounting and financial industries. The “obstruction of an official proceeding” provision was meant to apply to actions taken to cover up financial crimes — such as document destruction — in the course of a federal investigation. However, the vague language of the provision has allowed Biden’s DOJ to use it as a tool in prosecuting the January 6 defendants.
The Biden government’s use of Sarbanes-Oxley in the Capitol riot cases has thus far been upheld by 14 out of 15 federal trial judges overseeing the prosecutions. However, Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed to the bench by former President Donald Trump, has challenged the law’s application. Judge Nichols’s dissent from his colleagues could potentially sway the high court’s decision on the January 6 prosecutions.
The Supreme Court ruling could have a far-reaching effect beyond the three defendants who requested the appeal. More than 100 of the January 6 prosecutions are at least partially reliant on provisions in Sarbanes-Oxley, and any ruling by the high court narrowing the law’s scope could see most of these defendants released early. Additionally, DOJ special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump over his alleged role in the January 6 riots is – in part – built off of the 2002 financial crime law’s “obstruction of an official proceeding” provision.
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The three January 6 defendants challenging their convictions under the broad application of The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002's "obstruction of an official proceeding" provision have been granted early release pending their appeal. In June, the United States Supreme Court is set to decide whether President Joe Biden's Department of Justice overreached when broadly applying the 2002 financial regulatory law's enhanced felonies to rioters at the U.S. Capitol.
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Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA), who sits on the Congressional Subcommittee for Homeland Security, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) embedded itself into online veteran communities months ahead of the January 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The explosive details came out during an appearance on the Louisiana-based Implicit Biaspodcast.
JAN 6 WAS PRE-PLANNED.
“The FBI started embedding themselves in those groups — by the time you were four, five, six months into 2020, the FBI was monitoring and embedded into hundreds of online discussion groups,” Higgins asserted. According to Congressman, the evidence of the FBI’s pre-riot operations has been hidden from the public by court orders — though some Members of Congress have been able to view the details.
He continued: “The original seeds of riotous or illegal or occupation-type behavior amongst these groups were planted by the FBI agents embedded in those groups.”
FBI SHOWED “NEFARIOUS INTENT.”
In another segment, Rep. Higgins says he believes the FBI’s actions constitute illegal entrapment — arguing the agents embedded among online groups in the lead-up to the Capitol riots had “nefarious intent.”
He contends that because the agency appears to have set out to instigate violence, the federal government’s January 6 investigations are “the fruit of that poisonous tree.”
AGENTS WERE IN THE CAPITOL.
Higgins goes on to reveal that federal law enforcement also had undercover agents placed inside the Capitol, disguised as Trump supporters. According to the Louisiana Republican, these agents directed the January 6 protestors once the U.S. Capitol Police had allowed them access to the building’s interior.
The Congressman said it is unlikely average Americans would be able to navigate the building easily: “For a group of Americans to just come in a random door and be able to get specifically to the House floor or somebody’s office… no way. They had to be guided.”
‘GHOST BUSES’.
The Congressman also addressed the lingering questions regarding the presence of several unmarked buses that were seen transporting individuals — alleged to have been government-backed agents provocateurs — to the protest. According to witnesses, these busses lacked identifying markings and placards that would have allowed them access to government parking facilities.
“What was revealed to me through a whistleblower was that two buses… had been digitally documented, and we had access to that initial digital evidence,” Higgins said before continuing: “It showed two buses that were brought into the bus parking basement of [Union Station].”
The Congressman said the evidence showed the two buses in question were the first to arrive at the parking facility and “had been painted over white” to hide any identifying details, including the bus company’s telephone number. He noted that the vehicles are legally required to display identifying information.
Higgins went on to state that evidence suggests there were at least 30 to 40 occupants on each of the buses. “They were all dressed as Trump supporters. They were all military-age young men… [and] were all geared similarly in that they were wearing tactical gear,” the Congressman said.
WHO OWNED THE BUSES?
The Congressman said his office could identify a segment of the buses’ ID numbers and a telephone number using forensic analysis.”We got a hit on the bus… we were able to identify the owner that belonged to that telephone number that we positively identified,” Higgins said, revealing the buses had, at least at one point, been owned by a charter service based in New York.
According to the Congressman, however, the buses were subsequently abandoned at Union Station after the riots and have since disappeared.
When asked why federal law enforcement has attempted to hide evidence surrounding the January 6 riots — including the origin of the two ghost buses at Union Station — Higgins bluntly said, “It’s because it won’t be a good reflection on their involvement.”
Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA), who sits on the Congressional Subcommittee for Homeland Security, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) embedded itself into online veteran communities months ahead of the January 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The explosive details came out during an appearance on the Louisiana-based Implicit Biaspodcast.show more
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A former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employee and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor was captured in a series of undercover videos admitting to the presence of FBI agents among the crowd outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The footage, captured by Sound Investigations, shows Gavin O’Blennis — who worked for both the FBI and CIA — claiming that there were upwards of 20 FBI agents embedded among the protestors.
O’Blennis, who appears to now work with President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), suggested this is a common practice during protests in the nation’s capital. The former FBI employee’s claims echo an admission made last year by former U.S. Capitol Police chief Steven Sund that “There was a fair amount of law enforcement in the crowd.”
When asked about the limits of the agency’s power, O’Blennis insinuated there are few constraints. “You can kind of put anyone in jail if you know what to do,” he said before continuing: “You set them up. You create the situation where they have no choice but to act on their impulse.” O’Blennis admitted the agency’s actions come close to “entrapment.”
Sound Investigations says the recordings were made during three conversations with O’Blennis on March 15, 22, and 28th. He also disclosed that the FBI quietly influenced the Sandy Hook families’ lawsuit against Alex Jones to deplete his finances. The lawsuit resulted in a $85 million payout to the families over ten years after Jones voiced conspiracy theories regarding the Sandy Hook shooting, which he later retracted and apologized for.
WATCH:
BREAKING: CIA Officer/Former FBI Boasts “Can Put Anyone in Jail…Set ’Em Up!” “We Call It a Nudge”
FBI “Did What We Wanted” with Alex Jones @RealAlexJones “Took His Money Away” “Chop His Legs Off”
Estimates 20 Undercover FBI Agents at J6, Works with Some of Them Now at CIA
— Sound Investigations (@SoundInvestig) April 9, 2024
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A former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employee and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor was captured in a series of undercover videos admitting to the presence of FBI agents among the crowd outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The footage, captured by Sound Investigations, shows Gavin O'Blennis — who worked for both the FBI and CIA — claiming that there were upwards of 20 FBI agents embedded among the protestors.
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Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who chairs the Homeland Security Committee’s border subcommittee, is claiming Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents entrapped the U.S. Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. The four-term Louisana Republican, speaking with the Implicit Bias podcast, said he reached his conclusion after conducting his own investigation into the matter.
According to Higgins, the protestors were incited to violence by “ghost buses” filled with FBI agent provocateurs. He added that when the House of Representatives finishes with the process of releasing the security tapes from that day, the federal prosecution of the January 6 rioters will fall apart.
“The whole thing was a nefarious agenda to entrap MAGA Americans,” the Congressman said. He added: “The original seeds of riotous or illegal or occupation behavior amongst these groups were planted by the FBI-embedded agents in those groups.”
While there has been no conclusive evidence that the FBI instigated the January 6 riot, several law enforcement officials have admitted that federal agents were among the crowd on that day. The National Pulse reported in August of last year that former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund had told Tucker Carlson in an unaired Fox News interview that “there was a fair amount of law enforcement” in the January 6 crowd. Sund said in the days after the riot, he discovered that the FBI had at least 18 undercover agents in the crowd.
In May of last year, an FBI whistleblower told the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government that the bureau withheld further CCTV footage from the riot over fears of outing “undercover” agents present in the crowd. In January 2022, FBI Executive Assistant Director Jill Sanborn refused to deny the FBI’s involvement in the January 6 violence.
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Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who chairs the Homeland Security Committee's border subcommittee, is claiming Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents entrapped the U.S. Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. The four-term Louisana Republican, speaking with the Implicit Bias podcast, said he reached his conclusion after conducting his own investigation into the matter.
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. saysa fundraising email from a third-party vendor on behalf of his campaign referencing participants in the January 6 Capitol riot as “activists” was an error.
The email, titled “We Must Free Assange!”, stated, “This is the reality that every American Citizen faces — from Ed Snowden, to Julian Assange to the J6 activists sitting in a Washington DC jail cell stripped of their Constitutional liberties.”
Following a corporatemediabacklash, the campaign blamed the issue on an external marketing contractor whose contract it terminated. The email’s statement “does not reflect Mr. Kennedy’s views,” clarified Stefanie Spear, Kennedy’s spokesperson. The campaign has not disclosed the identity of the vendor responsible for this newswire misstep.
TRUMP BLASTS BIDEN DOJ.
On Thursday, the former president blasted the Biden government on his Truth Social account over the case of 71-year-old grandmother and great-grandmother Rebecca Lavrenz. A jury found Lavrenz guilty on four counts after praying inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Lavrenz faces three years in jail and up to $250,000 in fines.
SCOTUS TO THE RESCUE?
The Capitol riot defendants face charges under the novel legal application of The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002. The act overhauled regulatory provisions dealing with financial record keeping and reporting for corporations. The DOJ contends that the “corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding” felony provision found in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) — and enacted under Sarbanes-Oxley — permits the prosecution of crimes besides those of a financial nature.
The Supreme Court is currently considering whether the “official proceeding” provision can be applied to crimes outside the scope of Sarbanes-Oxley. It is expected to rule by the end of June.
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a fundraising email from a third-party vendor on behalf of his campaign referencing participants in the January 6 Capitol riot as "activists" was an error.
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Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has given a withering assessment of the Joe Biden regime’s conviction of Rebecca Lavrenz, a 71-year-old great-grandmother who briefly prayed inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
“This is really one of the most critical, most pertinent, and most poignant examples you can give of the Biden regime’s persecution of ordinary Americans,” Kassam told former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on War Room, describing the details of Lavrenz’s case as “harrowing.”
“The federal agents turn up at her house, they put her in chains… the stomach chains, and the ankle chains. She’s 71 years old, poses no threat to anyone,” he said, accusing the authorities of “making an unnecessary example of her.”
“You know who doesn’t want to make an example of her? It’s the mainstream media; it’s the corporate media. They understand in their hearts that this is a jumping of the shark moment,” he continued.
Kassam also had harsh words for Karl Rove, a donor class RINO who has cheered the prosecutions of January 6protestors.
“Look at what Karl Rove is saying out there… how [the protestors] should be in jail. Karl Rove should be in jail, frankly, for the war crimes he helped facilitate,” Kassam said, referring to Rove’s role in George W. Bush’s Iraq war.
Kassam concluded by stressing that the U.S. Capitol is, ultimately, a public building, with broad public access much of the time – yet on January 6 “they decided hey, we’re going to trick these people into walking in here, and the Biden regime’s going to prosecute them on the way out.”
“It’s disgusting… and I think there is a righteous indignation to be had here like no other before,” he concluded.
Speaking out against the conviction of the 'J6 Praying Grandma,' @RaheemKassam says it is war hawks like Karl Rove who belong in prison, not patriots like Rebecca Lavrenz. pic.twitter.com/lCYS4zNX05
Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has given a withering assessment of the Joe Biden regime's conviction of Rebecca Lavrenz, a 71-year-old great-grandmother who briefly prayed inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
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U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth handed down a sentence of over seven years in prison to Taylor James Johnatakis for his role in leading an ‘attack’ on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Videos provided as evidence showed Johnatakis using a megaphone to direct a crowd against a line of police.
Johnatakis allegedly led other rioters on a charge against a police line. Lamberth asserted Johnatakis “barked commands” over his megaphone and gave step-by-step instructions for overpowering law enforcement officers.
“In any angry mob, there are leaders and there are followers. Mr. Johnatakis was a leader. He knew what he was doing that day,” the judge said before sentencing Johnatakis to seven years and three months. The prosecution was seeking a nine-year prison sentence.
Johnatakis was arrested in February 2021 and has been jailed since November 2023, when jurors convicted him of seven counts, including obstruction of the January 6, 2021, joint session of Congress certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. The jury also convicted him of assault and civil disorder charges.
To date, the Biden government has charged approximately 1,350 people with federal crimes related to January 6, including Hollywood actor Nolan Freeman and conservative influencer Isabella DeLuca — who faces charges for touching a table. Over 800 people have been sentenced. One January 6 defendant, Kevin Seefried, was recently released by order of the Supreme Court.
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U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth handed down a sentence of over seven years in prison to Taylor James Johnatakis for his role in leading an 'attack' on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Videos provided as evidence showed Johnatakis using a megaphone to direct a crowd against a line of police.
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