The ideal of justice is a
blindfolded woman poised and still and holding slowly balancing scales.
At the Department of Justice over the last several years, the practice of justice is more like an inflatable flailing tube man. ............ For the protesters, the department has dusted off the charge of “seditious conspiracy.”
The last time the department charged
seditious conspiracy, in 2010, it went after a group of Christian
nationalists. The charge got thrown out of court. The last time the
department made the charge stick was about thirty years ago -- against
Islamic terrorists who plotted to blow up the FBI and United Nations
headquarters. In that case, seditious conspiracy was icing atop an
already well-baked cake of indisputable crime. But for the Capitol
protesters, the charge is the essential ingredient with which the
department hopes to turn a protest into Pearl Harbor.
Without seditious conspiracy, all the Department can serve its
political masters for desert are uncoordinated offenses against the
public peace, mostly misdemeanors like trespass, in a protest otherwise
well within the guarantee of the First Amendment..........To Read More...
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