J6 Defendants Targeted Again
The fallout from January 6 is entering a new phase.
For years now, Americans have watched January 6 get stretched, twisted, reshaped, and redeployed whenever Washington needs another political fire. What started as a single day’s chaos has evolved into something far bigger. It is now an ongoing justification for new laws, new powers, and new lines drawn in the sand.
Now, lawmakers are moving to make sure the financial consequences of that day never loosen their grip.
After one of the most sweeping waves of January 6 lawfare prosecutions in modern memory, Washington is now taking steps to make sure the financial tab is permanently cut off from non-violent offenders who were railroaded by the Biden regime.
In the clip below, CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports that Democratic Rep. Deborah Ross is preparing to introduce legislation that would block any taxpayer dollars from being used in connection with January 6 defendants, including civil penalties and compensation-related claims.
DAY AHEAD: House members to introduce bill banning taxpayer $$ from being given to Jan 6 rioters
Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC): "Insurrectionists don't need to be rewarded for trying to overturn an election.. It's absolutely ridiculous”
It should be noted that when Colorado tried to kick President Trump off the ballot by claiming he engaged in an “insurrection,” the Supreme Court shut that effort down. Trump remained on the ballot and ultimately won the presidency. The Court’s intervention made clear that the sweeping “insurrection” label many in the media and political class have leaned on was far from settled.
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states cannot disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol. In an unsigned opinion, a majority of the justices held that only Congress – and not the states – can enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was enacted in the wake of the Civil War to disqualify individuals from holding office who had previously served in the federal or state government before the war but then supported the Confederacy, against candidates for federal offices.
All nine justices agreed that Colorado cannot remove Trump from the ballot.
The left always uses the term “insurrection,” even though no one involved in January 6 was actually charged with that offense. It’s all politics and propaganda. That’s why you can see exactly what’s going on. Washington is making it very clear that anything connected to January 6 is going to stay under financial lock and key.
This is a rather curious line of thinking, especially at a time when taxpayer funds are routinely used for illegal aliens who are breaking the law simply by being here and for convicted criminals who want sex change operations.
And this is exactly why independent oversight matters so much right now.
Cynthia Hughes understands this terrain better than most.
For her, January 6 was never just some headline. It was personal.
Her nephew, Tim Hale, a non-violent January 6 attendee, was arrested and spent years in solitary confinement before his conviction was ultimately overturned. That kind of prolonged isolation and aggressive prosecution leaves real human consequences. Families feel it, careers are ended, and lives are disrupted in ways that don’t just “reset” when the government’s case falls apart.
Now, as lawmakers move to wall off any potential financial exposure connected to January 6 cases, it raises a difficult question. After years of prosecutions, overturned charges, and legal reversals, should the government be allowed to simply close the books without addressing their mistakes? Or does accountability run both ways?
Through the Patriot Freedom Project, Cynthia stepped into one of the most volatile and chaotic legal battles in our nation’s history, working directly with January 6 defendants and their families when nobody else would. Now, through Weaponization Watch, that effort has expanded into something broader, including tracking the patterns, connecting the dots, and giving the public a crystal clear look into how federal power is being weaponized against so many American citizens.
Hopefully, this bill will stall out, but what the Democrats are doing shows their overall game plan. January 6 will now become an active policy engine that will shape legislation and push enforcement priorities. Like everything else the left touches, J6 will be further weaponized.
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it sucks that the taxpayer gets stuck with paying for partisan misdeeds. But no group has ever been more deserving of compensation than the J6ers - the money should come from the D-bags that did the evil, not taxpayers
This is going to have be solved by civil war. We are going to have to put them out or their misery.