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Federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan has stayed all proceedings in the J6 case against President Trump:
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's Jan. 6 case on Wednesday paused proceedings in the prosecution amid his appeal claiming presidential immunity.
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan issued the order, which "automatically stays any further proceedings that would move this case towards trial or impose additional burdens of litigation on Defendant," The Hill reported.
This follows the former President's appeal from her ruling that he is not protected by presidential immunity but apparently came before the enormously consequential decision of the Supreme Court later in the day to review whether or not the statute used by the bloodthirsty Special Counsel Jack Smith, obstruction of an official proceeding, should have ever been used in the President's case in the first place.
What these two developments mean, in my humble opinion, as no one can possibly predict what will happen with all these appeals and trial assignments happening at the same time, is that there is now a serious possibility that two of the major charges against the President — and, most importantly, the basis of the persecution of many of the J6 defendants — will be found inapplicable to his case and, thereby, almost certainly in all the other J6 cases where it was used.
As Julie Kelly, probably the most knowledgeable person writing about the J6 persecutions today, so pithily put it on her Twitter page:
HOLY SH*T: Supreme Court will review 1512(c)(2), obstruction of an official proceeding case. This is felony used against 300+ J6ers and represents half of Jack Smith's indictment against Trump. If SCOTUS determines DOJ has misused the statute...will be a game changer. *** This is a day so many J6ers have been waiting for. Lives destroyed, people rotting in prison. All bc Biden’s DOJ abused a post-Enron evidence tampering statute. And what will Jack Smith do now? 2 of 4 counts in his indictment in jeopardy. This is potentially more impactful than immunity issue. Will he drop the 1512c2-related counts? Will he seek a superseding indictment with other charges? Trump’s lawyers presumably will file a motion to dismiss those counts.
We have a well worn old saying which has definitely stood the test of time:"When something looks too good to be true it almost always is." I pray, both for President Trump and also, so importantly, for all those American citizens who were hounded -some to the point of suicide- by that "cadaverous apparatchik" Merrick Garland and his automatons of the Justice Department that the High Court agrees with the common sense argument that this statute was never intended for this kind of case. If that incredible, but now within the realm of real hope, outcome does come about, we all may be able to once again start believing in that bedrock principle of American justice: Equal Justice Under Law.
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BDB kinda beat you to it, but this version is also good.
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Great post! Different mix of topics and more in-depth than mine.
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Yep that was my thought as well.
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Thank you for your post; it was very much appreciated and I saw it right after I spotted the news about Judge Chutkan granting (which must have made her have to go to the ER with some kind of emotional disturbance as it was the last thing she wanted to ever do) the Trump Motion to Stay all Proceedings. While appreciate your kind words, my little post was not nearly as detailed as I would like for to have been as there is a great deal to research that needs to be done in all of this and, in my exuberance about the good news out of the Supreme Court, I just wanted to get out the news that on the same day we had even more justice!
Not to get too side tracked, but the fact that the High Court accepted this case for review is a strong indication that there are enough votes for a ruling in favor of Trump on two of these spurious counts. Not to repeat my post, but as I write this in the convenience of my home, I think, as I do many days, of the poor American citizens who were locked up for so long in the DC Gulag and have lost their homes to pay legal fees and in some cases their means of livelihood due to the blood lust of these jackboot US Attorneys and Special Counsel and I just pray that this may be a day of real hope for those targets of Biden's police state.
Thanks again, Jim
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Yes, that was my point on BDB's post as well. SCOTUS tends to only do things like this if they have some point they want to make. The remaining question is whether that's a "good" point in this case, or a bad one. Considering the current makeup of the court, a good point seems likely. Here's hoping!
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