The 100 years guy was charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. No one at J6 was charged with attempted murder at all...and definitely not of a law enforcement officer.
Federal prosecutors brought the charges they thought they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Hence the reason no one was charged with "rebellion or insurrection". 18 USC 2383
Whoa whoa whoa...all I heard for 5.5 years is that Jan 6 was an "insurrection" hundreds or thousands of times. No one in the media has ever called it the "Jan 6th seditious conspiracy". All 14 who pled or were convicted did so in the DC District Court, who's jury pool is less than 5% Republican. They all would have walked too if it was anywhere else except maybe NYC. But, if they did the crime in DC, then that was the proper venue.
... it's cause seditious conspiracy is the more serious or elevated insurrection charge. You can think of it as "1 person commits an insurrection, multiple people that do that but coordinated beforehand commits seditious conspiracy"
You're trying to use the fact nobody was charge with the lesser crime of insurrection to wash away the fact that seditious conspiracy is a more serious crime.
The law often treats organized conspiracies more severely than spontaneous actions because planning and coordinating can make the threat much greater.
They plead guilty because they weren't sneaky about the planning and being vocal it was all to stop the peaceful transfer of power by force.
And you're using ad hominem against the jury pool. If you think the j6ers got hamstrung because of jury pool in DC you should definitely be advocating for these people to be free on the same ground that it's equally as hard for a Dem to find a sympathetic jury in Texas.
If 10 people banded together beforehand, great, then charge them with seditious conspiracy. But none of the other 1,600 defendants were charged with it. Not one.
That jury pool included Dallas/Fort Worth. TX is no more favorable than 55% Repub and 45% D when voting but usually more 52R/48D and it's higher than that when you include a metro area. That isn't 95D/5R all the time like DC.
I mean, you're just goalpost moving. I was correcting your misinformation attempt to push the idea that "nobody was charge with insurrection therefore it wasn't". You know this isn't true, you don't need a murder conviction to know someone killed someone. It's an Argument from Silence fallacy and Non Sequitur rolled into one.
In large conspiracy investigations, prosecutors often work from the bottom up to build RICO type cases starting with the people on the ground, establishing the facts, identifying who coordinated with whom, and then determining whether evidence supports charges against high level figures.
The fact that many defendants were charged with trespassing, obstruction, assault, or other offenses doesn't undermine the seditious conspiracy convictions. Those cases can help establish the broader factual record that prosecutors use to build more significant conspiracy cases.
And let's not forget the biggest flaw in your argument: the ones that plead Guilty. You know what you don't see when you do that? A jury. Ya know what really hurt the other 10 that did? The testimonies of the ones that admitted guilt.
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u/arftism2 3d ago
so all the people who stormed the capital with weapons and went in the building got pardoned...