Highest-profile January 6 trial begins with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) The January 6 committee investigating the attack on the Capitol may have issued its huge final report, but the wheels of the justice system in the US are grinding on and one of the most high-profile trials emerging from the insurrection is about to begin in earnest.

Jury selection began last week with the seditious conspiracy trial against ex-Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and four others involved in the far-right, often violent militia group.

Tarrio and his co-defendants in the Washington DC federal court trial – Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, Dominic Pezzola and Proud Boy organizer Joe Biggs – are charged with seditious conspiracy and other counts related to the attack that delayed congressional certification of Joe Biden’s election victory, injured dozens of police officers and is linked to multiple deaths. They have all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

A fifth man charged in this case, Charles Donohoe, pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to attack the Capitol. Under Donohoe’s plea deal, he agreed to cooperate against his co-defendants. Approximately 900 people have now been arrested in the Capitol attack, with prosecutors securing convictions against hundreds.

The start of the trial comes amid a wider reckoning with those responsible for the January 6 attack. .............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/25/january-6-proud-boys-trial-begins-enrique-tarrio

[stopdiggin]

1. Yes! This more or less the top

of the food chain as far as the shield bearers and foot soldiers. As per the (typical and traditional) strategy of starting with the little fish and working up to the big. Now the remaining question - have the prosecutors and investigators been able to establish a 'next level' up?

[UTUSN]

2. K&R

[IcyPeas]

3. Maybe Governor Sanders or Ted Cruz, or Rick Scott, or Roger Stone can put in a good word for him....

Link to tweet

[old as dirt]

4. Looks like he's got some friends. (nt)

[republianmushroom]

5. Highest-profile January 6 trial so far. Trump if he is ever

charged , indicted and put on trial will be the highest. But I don't think that will ever happen.
Nobody wants to take down an ex-president.

23 months and counting