*Do we LOVE Judge Howell, Chief Judge, Washington DC

[elleng]

NO, you may NOT go to Jamaica.

Quoted in Rachel show.

A January 6 defendant wanted to vacation in Jamaica. A federal judge just gave an emphatic no.

'Anthony Williams has had an eventful year.

In the waning days of 2020, he declared his plans to "Storm the Swamp" and, a week later, did just that by joining the pro-Trump mob that ransacked the Capitol on January 6 — a day he called the "proudest of his life," federal prosecutors alleged in court records. For more than a year, he has also been in a "committed romantic relationship," his defense lawyer said, in a recent brief requesting permission to him to travel to Jamaica to visit his girlfriend's family.

On Thursday, as Congress and President Joe Biden commemorated the one-year anniversary of the January 6 attack, the chief federal judge in Washington, DC, handed down an emphatic — and, by judicial standards, colorful — kibosh on Williams' proposed Jamaican vacation.

"This court will not commemorate the one-year anniversary of this attack on the Capitol by granting defendant's request for non-essential foreign travel when he is awaiting judgment for his actions on that day," wrote Chief Judge Beryl Howell, an 2010 appointee to the federal trial court in Washington, DC.'

https://www.businessinsider.com/january-6-defendant-jamaica-anthony-williams-justice-department-anniversary-judge-2022-1

[malaise]

1. Howling with laughter

No 10 day trip to Jamaica for him.

[Takket]

2. Good........

now can this Judge please go give a lecture the other judge that let that insurrectionist go on vacation last year?

context:

https://www.npr.org/sections/insurrection-at-the-capitol/2021/02/05/963661854/u-s-judge-xxxx-accused-rioter-s-request-to-vacation-in-mexico

A U.S. judge has approved a Texas woman's request to go on vacation in Mexico, despite her admission that she took part in last month's insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Jenny Cudd is accused of breaking federal laws that could result in a prison sentence. But she told the court that she wanted to travel, because she had already paid for the weekend retreat.

"This is a work-related bonding retreat for employees and their spouses," Cudd's attorney wrote in the request for the defendant to be able to leave the country. The filing noted that before the Jan. 6 incident at the Capitol, Cudd had already planned to go on a weekend retreat with her employees in Riviera Maya, Mexico, from Feb. 18-21.

District Judge Trevor McFadden, who was confirmed to the bench in 2017, approved Cudd's request. His order cites her lack of a previous criminal record and says there is no evidence that she poses a flight risk or is a danger to others.

The request was granted two days after a grand jury indicted Cudd on five federal counts, including one felony. The charges include obstructing an official proceeding of Congress; being in a restricted building; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted area; disorderly conduct in the U.S. Capitol; and parading or demonstrating inside the Capitol.