Raskin Blasts Trump DOJ’s Latest Effort To Obliterate J6 History
Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, scorched Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Justice, now led by his own former criminal defense lawyer, for asking a federal appeals court to vacate the Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. In other words, to erase the record altogether.
“This is an appalling and dangerous turn of events,” Raskin said in a statement. “The Department of Justice is now acting like in-house counsel for the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.”
Raskin noted that the two leaders of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs, were convicted of seditious conspiracy by a unanimous jury for their roles in leading the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and for trying to block the peaceful transfer of power. “Seditious conspiracy means conspiracy to overthrow, destroy or put down the government of the United States by force,” Raskin noted.
The evidence against the two was so strong, Raskin pointed out, that the “sentencing judge called Rhodes ‘an ongoing threat and a peril to this country and to its democracy,’ and applied the terrorism enhancement against him at sentencing.” Rhodes and Meggs were sentenced to 18 and 12 years in prison, respectively.