The Press Not Over 6 January

For John, BLUF:  I am just assuming that my view of the situatoin and that of the Reporters below are different in some details.  That is much better than assuming they are just trying to gaslight me.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Justice Dept. under pressure to resolve some lesser cases

From The [Lowell] Sun, by Reporters Alanna Durkin Richer and Colleen Long, of the Associated Press, 2 May 2021.

Here is the lede plus three:

More than 400 people have been charged with federal crimes in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

But prison time may be another story.

With new defendants still flooding into Washington’s federal court, the Justice Department is under pressure to quickly resolve the least serious of cases.

While defendants charged with crimes such as conspiracy and assaulting officers during the insurrection could be looking at hefty sentences, some members of the mob who weren’t caught joining in the violence or destruction could see little to no time behind bars.

The article still uses the now discredited term "Insurrection".♠♥

Then there is this paragraph:

After Trump’s impeachment by the House resulted in an acquittal by the Senate, these criminal cases are one possible route for justice.

Your reading may differ, but to me the Reporters are trying to tie the Senate trial and acquittal of President Donald J Trump (February 9, 2021 – February 13, 2021) to criminal action against the 6 January rioters.  At one level that seems backwards.  At a second level it seems that the Reporters are saying that President Trump was guilty as charged by the House and that the Corrupt Republican Senators wrongly voted to acquit him and that the only justice for the American People is to try some of those who supported him and to ensure punishment for them.♦

This was not a good piece of journalism.

Hat tip to The [Lowell] Sun.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  There is a Wikipedia entry for Insurrection, but it isn't very clarifying.
♥  If the Occupty Capitol Hill movement was an insurrection, then we need a better taxonomy of this kind of activity.  There was only one incident of gunfire.  No one tried to torch the Capitol building.  Aside from one protestor shot (Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt) no one else was shot and few were beaten up.  Most exited the Czpitol Building soon after entering it.  There was no occupation of offices and no calls for like activities elsewhere, in support of the Occupy Czapitol Hill action.  In fact, it was much different from its like action in Seattlem which results in CHAZ.
♦  My take on the Second Impeachment is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has never been able to forgive Mr Donald J Trump for running for President and that she has felt all along a need to strike back at him and punish and humiliate him.  From Impeachment I to ripping up his State of the Union Speech to Impeachment II.  It seems to me that for Speaker Pelosi President Trump represented the worst side of America and the fact that the People in the hinterlands, the deplorables and irredeamables, are just not able to appreciate what she (Ms Pelosi) and the Democratic Party are doing for them.  In her view, it seems, those people should just sit down and color.