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L. Coyote

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Mon Mar 28, 2022, 09:50 PM Mar 2022

Judge Sees Likely Trump Crimes For Jan. 6

As the January 6th committee seeks to speak with Ginni Thomas about her texts to former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, asking him to throw out the 2020 presidential election results, a federal judge says that then-President Donald Trump likely committed felony obstruction in trying to overturn Biden’s win. NBC News’ Maya Wiley and former Senator Barbara Boxer join Mehdi Hasan to discuss.

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Judge Sees Likely Trump Crimes For Jan. 6 (Original Post) L. Coyote Mar 2022 OP
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy L. Coyote Mar 2022 #1

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
1. 18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 10:00 PM
Mar 2022
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.


28 U.S. Code § 455 - Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge

(a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
(b) He shall also disqualify himself in the following circumstances:
(1) Where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding;
(2) Where in private practice he served as lawyer in the matter in controversy, or a lawyer with whom he previously practiced law served during such association as a lawyer concerning the matter, or the judge or such lawyer has been a material witness concerning it;
(3) Where he has served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy;
(4) He knows that he, individually or as a fiduciary, or his spouse or minor child residing in his household, has a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the proceeding, or any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding;
(5) He or his spouse, or a person within the third degree of relationship to either of them, or the spouse of such a person:
(i) Is a party to the proceeding, or an officer, director, or trustee of a party;
(ii) Is acting as a lawyer in the proceeding;
(iii) Is known by the judge to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding;
(iv) Is to the judge’s knowledge likely to be a material witness in the proceeding.
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