January 6th legal proceedings and investigations megathread

[John Dule]

You can no longer call yourself a Republican without endorsing terrorism and political violence, it seems.

[John Dule]

Can't wait for the Jan 6 committee to be disbanded. Maybe we get a Hunter Biden one as a replacement?

You might be excited to learn that we basically had two already! Both the Senate Homeland Security Committee and the Senate Finance Committee conducted investigations into Hunter Biden's dealings and found no evidence of wrongdoing. Now we can put this all behind us, right?

[John Dule]

An Ex-FBI agent who feds say urged Jan. 6 rioters to kill police, worked terrorism task force.

An ex-FBI official who allegedly urged rioters to "kill" officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was previously the supervisory special agent in charge of Homegrown Violent Extremism for the FBI New York Field Office's Joint Terrorism Task Force, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News.

Jared Wise was arrested in Oregon this week ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ex-fbi-agent-feds-say-urged-jan-6-rioters-kill-police-worked-terrorism-rcna82775

How does someone like this go from a special agent in charge of, and working against "homegrown violent extremism" in our nation, to the urging for murder of police officers by screaming “Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!” to trump supporting cultists, during the Jan 6th Insurrection?

I just don't see how this person passed the necessary (psychological) tests, to be in such a special department of the agency. There should have been something there (even in the past) that I would think would have been "detected."

Encouraging radicalized people to commit acts of violence is kind of the FBI's job.

[John Dule]

When Supreme Court justices ask questions, they are often doing so in order to get a handle on where the attorney draws the line regarding the legal rule they're proposing. I have my problems with Alito and Thomas, but the posts in this thread demonstrate an insane lack of understanding of how oral arguments work. If the actual opinion they render is worth criticizing, we can talk about it when the time comes. But for now just stop the demented pearl-clutching and fearmongering.