All posts tagged "Capitol Police"

Federal prosecutors tore apart an accused pipe bomber's bid to pin his January 5, 2021, attack on a cleared Capitol Police officer.

On Friday, the Department of Justice filed an opposition in D.C. federal court that urged the judge to reject a renewed motion by Brian Cole. The DOJ's opposition handed a fresh embarrassment to the MAGA figures who spent months pushing the debunked theory that former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff was the real bomber.

Chief among them is Ed Martin, the "Stop the Steal" organizer who until this month served as the DOJ's pardon attorney. Hours after the filing posted, Lawfare senior editor Anna Bower dared him to spread the exoneration as loudly as he once amplified the accusation. "Hey Ed, are you going to tweet this one out too?" she wrote, linking the document and quoting its finding that the FBI turned up "zero evidence connecting Kerkhoff in any way" to the bombs....

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig was stunned by the Trump administration's decision to create a $1.8 billion fund that could be used to compensate right-wing rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, and what that could mean for two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol that day and have now filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.

The former federal prosecutor told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Wednesday the lawsuit filed by Officer Harry Dunn of the U.S. Capitol Police and Officer Daniel Hodges of Washington’s Metropolitan Police was aiming to halt the Trump administration from creating a $1.8 billion slush fund, and whether their case will have legal standing.

"On the one hand, every word that the officers write in this complaint is true," Honig said. "They start off by saying, this is one of the most egregious acts of corruption in presidential history. I think the big legal obstacle, though, is going to be what we call standing, meaning the plaintiff in this case, the officers have to show that they will suffer some concrete injury and that that injury will be caused by the defendant's actions here. The establishment of the funds."...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is drawing flak online after accusing Democrats of attacking a Capitol Police officer in what he alleged was a political stunt.

One video shows Democrats marching to Johnson's office, chanting, “What is he afraid of?” “Epstein!”

The crowd chanted "swear her in," speaking of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), who was elected a few weeks ago in a special election. Her vote will be the final signature necessary to force a vote on releasing the investigation files of Jeffrey Epstein....

As Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) continued a marathon floor speech which had passed 18 hours by Tuesday afternoon — protesting President Donald Trump's agenda — news was released that one of his staffers was taken into custody by Capitol Police, according to Politico.

Authorities said they arrested the staffer, Kevin Batts, for allegedly carrying a gun without a license.

Batts reportedly told officers outside the Senate galleries Monday that he was armed. The department said Batts had been led by Booker around security screening at a congressional office building earlier that day....

Julie Farnam, who supervised intelligence gathering for the U.S. Capitol Police at the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, has received a subpoena to appear for a deposition by a Republican-controlled House subcommittee investigating security failures that day.

“We are investigating the alleged failures within USCP IICD leading up to January 6 to assess what legislative reforms, if any, are needed,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), chair of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, told Farnam in a letter that she received late Friday.

The subpoena sets up a confrontation between two pivotal — if somewhat under-the-radar — figures in the Jan. 6 attack saga, which three-and-a-half years on remains an unresolved matter for many Americans. ...

ROME, Ga. — When a man threatened in November to use a sniper rifle to assassinate Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican’s team responded by swiftly shutting down her congressional district office in Dalton, Ga.

And it wasn’t the first time that Greene shut down an official district office — her Rome, Ga. office quietly closed a year prior and remains closed.

Greene’s one remaining district office is publicly unlisted and unadvertised, her congressional spokesman confirmed. In order to visit, constituents must fill out a meeting request form on Greene’s website or set up an appointment by phone, where only then they will be given the physical address of her office, said Nick Dyer, who requested the office address not be publicized citing security concerns....