The Department of Justice (DoJ) is in high gear to wreak justice out of their January 6th prosecutions. On Tuesday evening, it ruled that Congressman Mo Brooks (R/AL) was not eligible for the normal legal defense that the DoJ is obligated to provide active congressmen. Brooks has been sued by Rep. Swalwell (D/CA) for fomenting violence by making a speech to the January 6 rally. The DoJ explained: “The record indicates that the January 6 rally was an electioneering or campaign activity that Brooks would ordinarily be presumed to have undertaken in an unofficial capacity.” A DoJ ruling in Brooks’s favor would have also allowed him the trial use of the “Speech or Debate” clause of the Constitution, providing wide protection for a lawmaker’s speech. Now, that apparently is stripped.
On Friday morning, the Attorney General refused to meet with a delegation of Congresspersons, and then they were denied access to the DoJ lobby. Their press conference took place outside the DoJ building, where an organized intervention tried to disrupt the representatives’ press conference. Particularly obnoxious was a demonstrator armed with a shrill whistle, which was blown continuously while the representatives spoke.
