Two-Tiered Justice for 1/6 Rioters

BUCK: I feel like the very clear, two-tiered system of justice is at work when it comes to the January 6 rioters, and there used to be organizations, Clay, including things like the ACLU. There used to be these civil libertarian groups that cared about this stuff. But now it’s just the same way that journalists said, “Being biased against Trump is in defense of journalism, so it doesn’t matter that you’re biased.”

CLAY: That’s right.

BUCK: They actually changed foundational approach to all this stuff.

CLAY: “Democracy dies in darkness.” Yes.

BUCK: Now there’s a sense among liberators groups ’cause they’re leftists in general, “Okay. Well, if we have to crush people to the right, that in the long term defends civil liberties.” So essentially, they save civil liberties by destroying civil liberties that’s really the way they view it and so they don’t get any help.

But there’s a judge in D.C. who just today released a guy named George Tanios, who’s one of two men charged in connection with macing a police officer, including Brian Sicknick — who later, as we know, died of a brain hemorrhage days later — at the Capitol on January 6th. This judge says, “The court clearly erred in keeping Tanios in jail.” This was a three-judge panel and, Clay, here’s the thing. They’ve been doing this to a lot of people.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: They’re keeping them in prison under the theory that they are a continuing danger to the public, as though if they’re released, they’re gonna go out and mace more police officers or… Basically they’re gonna try to overthrow the Capitol again.

This is completely insane, and these are federal judges who are letting their politics… I give these judges credit. But other federal judges are letting their politics influence them. A female judge — I’m blanking on her name now, but we can update it tomorrow on the show — wants the rioters to pay the cost of the National Guard deployment that, unnecessarily, Nancy Pelosi kept for about three months!

CLAY: I gotta give credit to a lot of the lawyers who are defending these January 6th individuals who were charged, because they’re starting to raise the selective prosecutorial misconduct arguments based on what happened in Portland, based on what happened to the BLM riots all over the place involving federal buildings or state buildings. Many of those people had their charges totally dismissed. It’s every bit as serious were those allegations of wrongdoing as these.

BUCK: Burning down a federal building falls in place in a federal statute that is serious, whether it’s a federal courthouse in Portland or somewhere else the country. No one tried to burn down the Capitol.

CLAY: That’s right.

BUCK: Let’s be very clear about that. But this is something we have to follow, ’cause the media doesn’t want you to know that there are people who are only accused, not convicted, of nonviolent crimes who have been held in solitary confinement for now seven months, eight months.

CLAY: Longer than they likely would have to go to prison if they were found guilty of what they had often been charged of!

BUCK: It’s just judges trying to show how woke and down with the power apparatus they are. It’s disgusting.

CLAY: It’s a gross miscarriage of justice from a legal procedure process, and we’re gonna talk about these cases, ’cause I do think they deserve a lot more attention relative to the way that they’re being covered, as if these are the worst human beings who have ever lived.