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DOJ continues pursuing January 6 cases

JURIST

On the same day, one man was sentenced to ten years in prison and a second pled guilty to felony charges. Julian Khater, a rioter from of Somerset, New Jersey, plead guilty to assaulting officers with a deadly weapon. The DOJ charged an attorney for the Oath Keepers militia group with conspiracy and obstruction.

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The Lawrence O’Donnell Factor: Will the Trump Jury Exercise Blind Justice or Willful Blindness?

JonathanTurley

Now it will be up to 12 New Yorkers to do what neither the court nor the prosecutors were willing to do: adhere to the rule of law regardless of the identity of the defendant. It is akin to New Jersey Democrat Sen.