Judge Thinks Capitol Rioters Are Getting Off Too Easy

A federal judge is questioning whether plea deals for some of the Capitol Rioters are allowing individuals to get off too easy. The judge said that these people "Terrorized members of Congress," and isn't so certain that reducing charges down to misdemeanors with no actual prison time is enough of a lesson. Farron Cousins discusses the sentencing processes and whether we should be demanding more.

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During a plea hearing last week for somebody, uh, accused and arrested of participating in the Capitol riots, the judge in the case,

Pondered openly,

And basically even asked the prosecution, are we letting these people off too

Easy? So

Here's what happened. You had a defendant, uh, by the name of Jack Jesse Griffith, uh, was charged with being in there, parading in the Capitol, uh, did not cause any property damage didn't do any violence, just was there in the building, you know, where they're not allowed to be. And so the prosecutors dropped the charge, you know, from a felony down to a misdemeanor. And the judge openly said, here it is, I'll read the statement from the judge. I'm just curious. Does the government have any concern given the factual, uh, predicated issue here of the defendant, joining a mob, breaking into the Capitol, building through a broken door, wandering through the Capitol building and stopping a constitutionally mandated duty of the Congress and terrorizing members of Congress, the vice-president who had to be evacuated, does the government and agreeing to the petty offense in this case have any concern about deterrence? Basically the lesser charges that this individual that they're trying to work out in this plea deal are, as the judge explained it at another point, what you would typically slap somebody with, if they were in a national park after closing time, you know, misdemeanor trespassing on, uh, you know, national monument essentially. Um, it could have a six month jail time, but usually it's just, you know, probation, those types of things. But the judge has statement there that I just read.

I think it's very powerful and I think it does make a good point here. If

We want to ensure that something like this does not happen in the future with which the department of Homeland security is terrified that it could happen in the future. In fact, now that we're into the month of August, they're actually worried that it might happen in 12 days on August 13th or 11 days, I guess. Wow. But they're thinking it may happen on August 13th when as the, uh, Q folk have predicted Donald Trump has set to be reinstated as president. That's also the day that Mike Lindell's cyber symposium concludes and he has predicted Biden and Harris may resign that day. Homeland security is terrified as to what could happen when none of that actually happens. So they're worried this could happen the judges, but not just this judge. Other judges that we've talked about have expressed concern that these people haven't learned a lesson. So at what point do we go harsher with the sentencing?

Do we need to, this individual was, you know, caught up in the moment with

The mob, entered through a broken window, as they said. So, you know, that, that seems pretty intense, but at the same time, they didn't, you know, they weren't involved in violence, they didn't steal anything, they didn't break anything themselves. Do we shove them away in prison for five years? I think that's a real ethical question that we need to ask ourselves. And trust me, I have no sympathy for any of these individuals involved in the capital riot, not, not an ounce of it. They did this to themselves,

But we

As progressive serves as liberals, as Democrats, whatever we are, have always talked about the very harsh and unfair sentences coming down, um,

The judicial pipeline. So how do we reconcile that?

How do we, oh, no, we have an over sentencing problem here in the United States. And then turn around and say, no, give all these capital rioters 15, 10, 5 years in jail, whatever it is, you can't do that. You can't have it both ways. I agree with the judge that, well, these plea deals that are finally starting to happen should not be happening and people should not get offline.

But if, if

What this particular case, this one individual case is saying is true, and this individual was not imbibe involved, excuse me, and actual damage and actual violence and threats. If they don't have any social media history of saying, you know, the storm is coming or any kind of crazy thing like that, or threatening violence in their social media, then I don't think they're being led off too easy.