Reminder: Congress goes back in session on the 12th (this Tuesday) after being on break for a month.
Expect a lot of grandstanding about how Trump is a threat to Democracy and so on.
JUST IN - A senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says the incoming administration will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine rather than enabling the country to gain back territory occupied by Russia. — BBC
https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1855258400927428745
NOW - Robert Habeck, German Vice Chancellor and Green party member: "The regulation of algorithms, of X or TikTok, through the application of European legal norms is a central task. We cannot place ‘democratic discourse’ in the hands of Elon Musk and Chinese software."
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1855263168815038669
🚨 NBC: Biden-Harris DOJ focused on arresting as many of the “most egregious” January 6th protesters as possible in the 72 days before inauguration.
https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1855266212399169599
Justice Dept. to focus on 'most egregious' Jan. 6 cases until Trump is inaugurated
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department plans to focus on arresting the "most egregious" Jan. 6 rioters — particularly those who committed felony assaults on law enforcement officers but have not yet been arrested — in the remaining 72 days before President-elect Donald Trump is back in the White House, a law enforcement official told NBC News this week.
Trump is expected to shut down the years-long investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and has said he would “absolutely“ pardon some, if not all, of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol that day, labeling them “warriors,” “unbelievable patriots,” political prisoners and “hostages.” A Trump campaign spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on which rioters Trump would consider pardoning, though the campaign previously said that he would pardon Jan. 6 defendants on a "case-by-case basis when he is back in the White House."
Given Trump's stunning election victory, federal prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Capitol Siege Section received guidance this week about how to proceed in pending Jan. 6 cases, NBC News has learned, including a directive to oppose any Jan. 6 defendant’s requests for delays. Prosecutors are instructed to argue that there is a societal interest in the quick administration of justice and these cases should be handled in the normal order.
As for new arrests, the law enforcement official said, prosecutors will "focus on the most egregious conduct and cases until the end of the administration." There are unlikely to be any further arrests of misdemeanor Jan. 6 defendants — such as those who entered the Capitol but did not assault law enforcement — unless a judge already signed off on those cases, but felony assault cases will proceed, the official said.
Online sleuths who have aided the FBI in hundreds of arrests of Capitol rioters told NBC News they have identified and submitted evidence to the bureau on 75 peope who are currently featured on the FBI's Capitol Violence webpage and labeled as wanted for assault on a federal officer or for assault on media, both felonies.
Federal officials would have to pick up the pace to get just those cases over the finish line before Trump walks through the lower west tunnel — where his supporters fought law enforcement in a battle multiple officers described as "medieval" — to take the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2025.
"Just over 1 per day," one of the online "sedition hunters" who has dedicated hours of their life to finding the Trump supporters who brutally assaulted law enforcement officers that day, told NBC News. "Place your bets!"
"We didn’t spend the last four years tracking these criminals down just to have dozens of them avoid prosecution because half of the country are f—ing morons," another of the online sleuths said. "Our work continues, as should the DOJ’s."
Existing cases against Jan. 6 defendants are expected to continue with additional trials, sentencing hearings and plea agreement hearings scheduled to take place next week.
The FBI has arrested over 1,560 Jan. 6 defendants so far. Prosecutors have secured more than 1,100 convictions and more than 600 defendants have received sentences of incarceration ranging from days in jail to 22 years in federal prison.
This week, a rioter who assaulted law enforcement officers and smashed in the windows to the House Speaker's Lobby just before a fellow rioter was shot — and then became the target of a conspiracy theory suggesting he was a federal informant — was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
A former assistant U.S. attorney in the Justice Department's Capitol Siege Section told NBC News this week that prosecutors are proud of the work they've done, but understandably nervous about the future and demoralized. Many prosecutors got involved in these cases because of their desire to uphold the rule of law and to defend democracy, the former assistant U.S. attorney said, but the cases became about vindicating the victims, who are primarily police officers.
SAUCE: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/jan-6-cases-what-happens-focus-felony-rioters-trump-election-rcna175386
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it now. It’s a beautiful day to count every vote.
https://x.com/Bob_Casey/status/1855257569209569606
Queen Camilla has a chest infection and will miss the UK's annual Remembrance Sunday events
https://x.com/AP/status/1855269147355099286
🚨#BREAKING: President elect Donald Trump has officially won and secured Nevada, putting him over 300 electoral votes. The only state that remains undecided is currently Arizona.
https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1855276666907664657