Christmas Disaster: Feds Ramp up J6 Prosecutions to Break Families Apart
With Donald Trump promising to pardon some, if not all, of those convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, logic would suggest that the Justice Department might slow down or halt its ongoing prosecution of J6 defendants, and that the FBI would terminate its ongoing orders to surveil, raid and apprehend new suspects who demonstrated in Washington, D.C. that fateful day.
In just a few weeks, on Jan. 20, 2025, President-elect Donald Trump will make his return to the Oval Office, something long awaited by the men and women who have been politically prosecuted by the Biden DOJ for protesting the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election results at the “Save America” rally on Jan. 6, 2021. . .
Yet the DOJ and federal prosecutors are ramping up the charges against Jan. 6 defendants, even circumventing the Supreme Court’s ruling on its misuse of federal statutes, to send protesters who trespassed in the “People’s House” to prison for years or decades, all in a scurry as the new Republican administration prepares to assume power.
The FBI continues to steadily arrest protesters who sought to “Stop the Steal,” apprehending at least two new Jan. 6 suspects every day, often in predawn SWAT team raids, four years after the event.
Criminal defense attorney Roger Roots, who has represented nearly four dozen Jan. 6 defendants over the past three-and-a-half years, is sounding the alarm on the government’s incessant attempts to destroy the lives of everyday Americans who supported Trump by exercising their First Amendment rights to speech and assembly. (Read more from “Christmas Disaster: Feds Ramp up J6 Prosecutions to Break Families Apart” HERE)
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