Kentucky state GOP passes resolution for 'wrongfully held' suspects in Jan. 6 riot

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Lexington Herald-Leader

January 07, 2024 1:41 PM


The governing body of the Republican Party of Kentucky passed a resolution Saturday claiming many people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have “been wrongfully held.” It recognizes “citizens who have been held without due process” after the attempted insurrection led by supporters of former Republican President Donald Trump, who has falsely asserted he won the 2020 presidential election.

The resolution is identical to one filed by Sen. Lindsey Tichenor, R-Smithfield, in the Kentucky Senate on Friday. Bobbie Coleman, chair of the Hardin County GOP who read the resolution at Saturday’s meeting, told the Herald-Leader the vote was tight: The Republican State Central Committee, the governing body of the Republican Party of Kentucky, adopted the resolution by a razor-thin 34-32 vote. “I’m not saying that not everybody was innocent, but there’s a lot that are,” Coleman said.

“If the justice system was doing it properly and constitutionally, then the ones that deserve to be in there (jail) would be in there and the ones that were were led in or were just trespassing wouldn’t.” She said that “99 percent” of people who attended the rally preceding the Capitol riot were “just there to practice their First Amendment” rights.

As of December 2023, about 1,240 people have been arrested, according to the New York Times. The Department of Justice reported in October that nearly 600 people had pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the Capitol riot and nearly 100 had been convicted by a jury. The New York Times reported two people have been acquitted.

Read more: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article283925413.html

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The GOP is normalizing the commission of criminal acts.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. If the general public believes the Feds have stopped enforcing laws

Things are going to get more dicey rather fast.

[Timewas]

2. Sounds right for GOP

Setting it up for the next round.

[rurallib]

11. Get the storm troopers out of prison and prepared for next January

[Walleye]

3. It wasn't a rally to exercise their First Amendment rights, they said they wanted to "stop the steal"

In other words obstruct an official congressional proceeding

[jaxexpat]

30. The point! That's why it's called an insurrection and not a "rally".

[Rebl2]

31. Since when do the GOP

think it’s okay to break into the capitol, spray police with bear spray, beat up police, break windows and break into offices and steal objects, spread feces on walls and wherever. I bet if something similar happened in their state house they would not be pleased and would have those folks arrested.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. snork. they are wating for t,,,,

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Voters in Kentucky are fully immersed in the Fascist Oligarch eXtremists propaganda.

I don't know how we break the cult and re-introduce reality.

[Bayard]

20. Not all KY voters are idiots

Not even most of them. But rethuglicans do control the legislature, and they ARE idiots..

[Marthe48]

6. I read a DU post the other day

the post said that the First Amendment right to free speech doesn't cover actions. How would these criminals disguised as elected officials act if a riotous mob attacked their work place, or worse, their homes because of a deluded belief that their government is against them?

How do you deal with stupidity? How do you get reliable, mature, honorable, upright people to run for public office? Why are so many rwnj getting into office? Do the idiots who vote for them really think the rwnj have a plan to put a better government in place? I know for sure that if the rwnj get total power, they will either back off their asinine rhetoric or dismantle what we have and run amok.

This isn't a video game or a cartoon. It is real life with real life consequences for every single person.

[alwaysinasnit]

7. Maybe we should respond with something like "What? You want to set those Antifa people free?"

I would be curious to see/hear their reaction.

[William Seger]

19. I guess they'd reply, "NO! We want to free everyone else!"

[LiberalFighter]

8. The problem with her 99% statement is that it was just over 2,000 that invaded the Capitol.

At the rally there were about 10,000.

[Griefbird]

9. They had trials

and were convicted under the due process set forth in the Constitution.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. But we know that TFG has rejected support of the Constitution - and the Republicans follow TFG

Which is scary as hell.

[truthisfreedom]

10. Every one of these idiots should be forced to review

All of the vionlet footage identifying every convicted criminal.

[bluestarone]

13. Sounds like they are trying to OBSTRUCT

Investigations?

[Novara]

14. Yabbut, a resolution has no teeth

It's just making a public record. It has no enforcement mechanism.They're putting themselves on the record as being pro-insurrectionist. Not a good look.

I know it is no consolation now, but I'm wondering how history will record all of this. If we remain a democracy, I'm guessing history won't be kind to these motherfuckers. If we turn into a fascist state, history won't record any of this accurately.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. It's a "talking point" strategy that has apparently been put out there for the red states to implement

right after their dear leader put out a call to "release the (J6) hostages".

[OldBaldy1701E]

28. Yep.

And, as far as I am concerned, once that orange gibbon is convicted for treason and locked away, the DOJ should make sure that the Kentucky legislature is aware that they are being watched. CLOSELY. Since they put themselves on the record as being against the punishment of law breakers and treasonous bastards. I would hope that the DOJ would maintain that they are watching to see if the politicians do more than agree with the treason that happened on January 6th.

[Novara]

29. They are too emboldened

I would never have imagined a day when elected officials would put on the record that they support insurrectionists and lawbreakers. That would have been the end of their careers.

It absolutely disgusts me what the orange motherfucker has done to this country.

[Grins]

15. Gift 'em a chance and they will always show their ass. NM

[Grins]

17. Resolution?

Means squat. Why didn’t they file a suit against the government in court?

Because it would fail . Spectacularly!

[SouthernDem4ever]

18. GOP Lawbreakers are trying to rewrite history again.

This is getting boringly stupid. They keep trying to make laws that allow lawlessness. Morons.

[Demovictory9]

21. Apply that empathy to poor, black and brown held in jail

[PortTack]

22. And their "resolution " will stand up in what court?

[NBachers]

23. What are these gibbering inbred hillbillies up to now?

[machoneman]

24. What would they say or do if the rioters did this in the KY Capital? Woulda' made them saints I guess!

[PurgedVoter]

25. Sounds like they need to be fined or imprisoned for aid and comfort to resurectionists.

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the ...

Mighty soft on crime these Repubs are.

[Lovie777]

26. And the coup continues.............................

[no_hypocrisy]

27. Juries and judges for January 6 defendants were not all Democrats.

They heard and saw the evidence, made a decision and the judges passed sentences according to state or federal guidelines. All defendants had the right to appeal. The defendants had their due process.

[CaptainTruth]

32. None of them were 'wrongfully held' so this resolution applies to... no one.

I tire of stupid performative GOP BS.