by Julie Kelly
July, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia dismissed a case against a Black Lives Matter protester charged with attacking a federal police officer last summer in Lafayette Square.
Channing Phillips, currently in charge of the office, dropped the charge after the defendant’s lawyer argued the facial recognition technology used to identify the suspect was unreliable and racist. Glenn Ivey, the defense lawyer, is a high-priced D.C.-area criminal attorney who just happened to work with Phillips in the 1990s.
The biased swamp in action.
Phillips, however, has not been as lenient with defendants facing charges for entering the Capitol on January 6. His office now is handling roughly 650 active criminal cases; the investigation is overwhelming his office and the court system. (On any given day, roughly half of the hearings in the D.C. federal district court are related to the Capitol breach probe.)
Channing Phillips is not a household name, but he is arguably one of the most powerful men in Washington right now, overseeing the Biden regime’s nationwide dragnet for Americans who protested Joe Biden’s election. This is Phillips’ third stint as acting U.S. attorney for D.C., having been twice appointed by Barack Obama to temporarily fill the position. In between, Phillips worked as senior advisor for Attorney General Eric Holder and then his successor, Loretta Lynch.
In March, Phillips replaced Michael Sherwin, the first prosecutor in charge of the Capitol breach probe who bragged about unleashing a “shock and awe” crusade to arrest at least 100 Trump supporters before Biden’s inauguration.
Phillips is more low-key in public but his office is no less ruthless. His prosecutors continue to seek pretrial detention for anyone accused of violence, including assault of a federal officer, the same charge his office just dropped against a BLM protester. In some instances, Phillips’ lawyers want even nonviolent offenders to remain behind bars for months awaiting a trial or plea offer.
Prosecutors have sought prison terms for minor offenses including “parading, demonstrating, or picketing” in Congress. In a sentencing motion for a man who pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony count that Phillips’ office has attached to at least 200 mostly misdemeanor cases, the lead prosecutor referred to the nonviolent defendant with no criminal record as a “domestic terrorist.”
As his prosecutors ask for continuances, pushing trials into next year, Phillips’ office is slow-walking discovery. Phillips continues to conceal nearly 14,000 hours of surveillance video recorded by U.S. Capitol Police security cameras on January 6 under strict protective orders. The footage has been designated “highly sensitive” government material by Phillips’ office.
Further, Phillips’ merciless targeting of Trump supporters seems to be a personal vendetta of sorts. Contrary to Joe Biden’s promise that his Justice Department would be free from partisanship, Phillips has strong opinions—and no qualms about using his authority to advance his political interests.
Phillips’ father, the Reverend Channing E. Phillips, was a civil rights leader in Washington, D.C. and the first black American to be placed in nomination for president at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Reverend Phillips reportedly helped organize the Black United Front in the 1960s with other radical activists including Marion Barry, Stokely Carmichael, and Walter Fauntroy (who, in 2010, compared the Tea Party movement to the Ku Klux Klan).
The younger Phillips apparently shares his late father’s worldview. Less than five months before taking over the office, Phillips wrote to his predecessor and said the D.C. office—the largest in the country—“has a unique obligation to take a stand against . . . injustice and to serve as a national leader in the quest for racial equality.”
After the death of George Floyd, Phillips retweeted a post by former Attorney General Eric Holder, a screed that condemned America’s alleged systemic racism: “The problems we face are truly societal and historical in nature,” Holder wrote on May 29, 2020. “For too long, people of this nation have been mistreated solely based on the color of their skin. It is incumbent upon the leaders of our country . . . to move this nation towards that true ‘new birth of freedom’ long promised, but never realized.”
To which Phillips tweeted, “Well said!”
After D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had the words “Black Lives Matter” painted on a street near the White House, Phillips tweeted that the move was a “powerful gesture.”
In June, Phillips co-signed a letter authored by Obama-era prosecutors calling for sweeping police reforms. “[I]t took the death of George Floyd in police custody to galvanize a movement, but we are heartened by the thirst for change that has swept the country,” Phillips and 60 other former colleagues wrote in June 2020. “We must change our vision of public safety that, for too long, has perpetuated policing that endangers Black and brown people rather than protecting and serving them.”
The following month, Phillips accused critics of Kim Gardner, the St. Louis city circuit attorney prosecuting Patricia and Mark McCloskey for defending their home against Black Lives Matter protesters in the summer of 2020, of leveling “racist attacks.” Phillips claimed the “inflammatory language” used by Gardner’s critics, including President Trump, “threatens the ability of every prosecutor in this country to do the job they were elected to do.”
In 2014, Phillips tweeted a New York Times column by Nicholas Kristoff titled, “When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Part 4.” Phillips called it a “good read.” The following year, Phillips posted an NPR article about a murder case in Mississippi. “Powerful,” Phillips tweeted. “A Black Mississippi Judge’s Breathtaking Speech To 3 White Murderers.”
The man now prosecuting Trump supporters, charging the overwhelming majority with misdemeanors but nonetheless bankrupting their families and destroying their reputations in the process, has clear animus toward President Trump and his former advisors, including Attorney General William Barr. Phillips blasted Barr for moving to dismiss the perjury case against Lt. General Michael Flynn, a product of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into imaginary Trump-Russia election collusion. Barr, Phillips argued at the time, should resign and be investigated by Congress.
There was no “insurrection.”
Just a staged and planned false-flag by an illegal government taking control.
Not only is Trump innocent, but as usual, completely exonerated by all video and audio evidence in existence.
The Democrats should just take their false-victory and move on. They will be dealt with legally, in time.
Trump beat their system and restored democracy to our country for a short time.
Now we know what’s possible. They are scared, as all tyrants are.
The left can hardly wait to have a full-fledged totalitarian police state to attack, imprison and torture their political opponents. They are damn near there.
I’d argue they ARE there.
THEY definitely believe they are and love acting like it.
This prosecutor appears to have endemic systemic racism.
But, there is another interesting tidbit about congressional chairman of the faux Jan 6 commission:
Benny Thompson Supports Violent Revolutionary Group That Kills Cops
The entire idiot Biden regime is composed of leftist, America-hating scumbags.
EXCLUSIVE: Steve Bannon’s Attorneys Fire Off Letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson and Pelosi’s Jan. 6 Committee Over False Statements
Jan. 6 panel moves forward with criminal contempt charge against Steve Bannon
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After failing to show for a deposition on Thursday, the Democratic-led House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol said it will move forward with criminal contempt proceedings against Trump ally and political strategist Steve Bannon.
Three other former Trump officials will have their depositions postponed, according to a committee aide.
“The Select Committee will use every tool at its disposal to get the information it seeks, and witnesses who try to stonewall the Select Committee will not succeed. All witnesses are required to provide the information they possess so the Committee can get to the facts,” Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement.
He indicated the committee would vote on a contempt report for Bannon on Tuesday evening, following through on its weeks long threat of criminal referrals to the Justice Department for those who don’t comply, which could lead to potential fines and jail time.
Thompson added the panel is grateful to the “many individuals” who have voluntarily participated in the probe, including several who have met recent subpoena deadlines to produce documents.
Bannon and former Defense Department official Kashyap Patel were requested to sit for depositions on Thursday. Their testimony was to be followed by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and ex-Trump White House deputy chief of staff for communications Dan Scavino on Friday.
The committee had previously said Meadows and Patel were in talks with the panel, and as a result of those ongoing talks, their depositions will be delayed for a “short” period, an aide said. Scavino, who was not served his subpoena until last week, will also have his deposition postponed.
Bannon was not expected to cooperate with the panel, citing executive privilege. In an Oct. 13 letter obtained by NPR, Bannon’s attorney reiterated that stance to the committee, noting that former President Trump directed Bannon not to produce documents or reveal conversations that Trump wants legally protected. Bannon, who left the Trump administration in 2017, was not part of the White House in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6.
Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said on Wednesday that Trump instructed the witnesses to honor conversations and documents covered by executive privilege.
But Committee members have repeatedly expressed skepticism over that claim, noting that executive privilege rests with the current president, not former presidents…
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Maybe Trump’s assertion of imaginary executive privilege will be followed by the issuance of an imaginary pardon.
A link to the preceding article: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1046040745/jan-6-panel-moves-forward-with-criminal-contempt-charge-against-steve-bannon
F u c k the fake Jan 6 commission. It is nothing more than a witch hunt. If they want answers they need Wray, Pelosi, bowser, shumer and pence
There’s nothing remotely “fake” about what happened on January 6, nor about the investigation that intends to get to the bottom of it.
Your cult leader tried to overturn the election that removed him from power. He tried to use his powers of office destroy America’s constitutional democracy.
How so?
He pronounced the election results to be fraudulent, with no evidence whatsoever. He the Governor of Georgia to call to order a special session of the Georgia Legislature to nullify state results and appoint pro-Trump electors. He pressured Brad Raffensperger to “find the votes” that he needed. He had Texas Attorney General petition the Supreme Court to throw out the election results. He pressured the DoJ to announce that there was evidence of fraud and that the election results were fraudulent. He discussed with Michael Flynn, Sydney Powell, and Lin Wood the possibility of declaring martial law and rerunning the election in swing states—something that Flynn then suggested was a possibility during a Newsmax broadcast. He held meetings with members of Congress to discuss options for overturning the election results on January 6th. He incited the mob that invaded the Capitol on January 6th, and ignored pleas for assistance in connection with the violence that followed.
All bullshit
If you don’t want the answer, you shouldn’t ask the question.
Trump should have been removed from office after the Ukraine extortion scam.
Bullshit
What was the extortion?
The threat of withheld military aid, unless there was official cooperation with Rudy’s “investigation”.
“Trump was shaking down Zelensky while trying to keep the rest of the government in the dark. That’s not a ‘policy,’ that’s a conspiracy.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/01/30/trump-impeachment-blackmail-extortion-conspiracy-column/4612952002/
You have nothing but bullshit.
We all know biden held money until the prosecutor going after the drug addict and whore chasing son was fired.
actually greggie, There was evidence of fraud in the 2020 election on election night. He pressured Raffensperger to perform his job, not manufacture votes. You again only see what you want to see because you are addled or just a liar.
If there were credible evidence of fraud, Trump and his accomplices could present it. They never have, because there ISN’T any.
Greggie, if you got your head out of your butt, you would already be aware of the proven fraud by many credible sources. With the current administration controlling the media and the DAs elected by Soros it is quite difficult to get the evidence into court.
The only fraud is Trump’s “Save America” scam, which is pulling millions. See those messages from Donald in the yellow blocks? Don’t worry about how those little check marks work. You could miss your chance to become a member of the Official TRUMP DAY ONE CLUB!
https://secure.winred.com/save-america-joint-fundraising-committee/trump-day-one-ads/?utm_medium=ad&utm_source=dp_googlesearch&utm_campaign=20210616_na_genericfund_saveamerica_saveamerica_ocpmypur_bh_audience0004_na_copy00031_us_b_25-99_gsn_all_na_lp0042_fund_conversion_na_na_na_na&utm_content=fun&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqp-LBhDQARIsAO0a6aJz714GzdeDNBMhuoazwSgEJMKAPt1Uum0PM0HJuUQ5vJpDZERtabIaArSwEALw_wcB&exitintent=true&recurring=true&money_pledge=true
That’s a long web address, isn’t it? That’s because it’s carrying information about how they’re getting their hand into your pocket.
Not only has ample evidence of massive fraud been presented and discussed here, but you yourself have been directly questioned to provide an alternate explanation for it and you simply scamper away from the questions. You KNOW the only explanation is FRAUD and you know FRAUD is what put this moronic, corrupt, incompetent idiot Biden in office.
The evidence is overwhelming to anyone with a functioning brain. The forensic audit in Arizona conclusively shows there were ample instances of fraud more than ten times over the difference in the vote count between President Trump and the democrat candidate…
The same and/or similar likelihoods exist in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The buried lede here is if a candidate receives 81 million votes, how is it that person falls as fast as biden has in the approval polls?
Are you opposed to challenging electors during the congressional to count?
None of your bullshit is true. You can not provide any proof of any of the manufactured lies.
Shows your sickness of TDS
Violent Insurrection? New Security Footage From Jan 6th Shows Capitol Police Officers Herding Protesters Inside As They Enter The Capitol – Then Stood Back
And the DOJ calls that trespassing?
The House resolution to refer Steve Bannon for criminal prosecution has just passed.
202 House republicans voted to allow Bannon to ignore a congressional subpoena without consequences.
They’d probably vote to hang themselves, if Donald Trump suggested that they do so.
The tell here is the spending bills are dead. pelosi and shumer have no path forward on spending. So, the best Congress can do is vite to hold a private citizen in contempt on a made up charade.
The January 6 commission is a joke.
Really? I see the filibuster being set aside, the voting rights bill being pushed through, and compromises reached on Biden’s legislative agenda. But go ahead and celebrate. After all, Biden only has three more years to go.
We can no longer waste time arguing with idiots. COVID is still dragging the economy down, and more trouble is coming in December when the auto industry shuts down owing to global magnesium shortages. Trump will try to exploit all of that.
What is wrong with Biden, and his supposed Intel community still claiming White Supremacists are the most lethal threat to the US
Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol
Nov 8, 2021 – Jan. 6 committee subpoenas top Trump officials, allies who supported effort to overturn election
The committee claimed that Trump’s campaign aides and advisers used a “war room” as a command center to brainstorm efforts to halt the counting of electoral votes.
“…John Eastman’s two-page memo outlined a six-point plan for Pence, in his role as president of the Senate, to set aside Electoral College votes in seven states. Certification of the election would have then moved to the House of Representatives, where a majority of state delegations controlled by Republicans could have handed the victory to Trump, according to the memo.
Pence considered intervening in the certification to be unconstitutional, but Eastman’s memo tried to convince him otherwise. The memo’s reasoning has been widely dismissed by legal experts…”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/11/08/january-6-committee-subpoena-john-eastman-trump-lawyer-pence-memo/8564635002/
CNN Poll: Majority of Americans say Biden isn’t paying attention to nation’s most important issues