An Indian-born federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama has dismissed J6-related criminal charges against eight members of the Oath Keepers — and was clearly cut up about it.
U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta, who oversaw the defendants’ seditious conspiracy trials in 2022 and 2023, made no secret that he issued the order on Tuesday “reluctantly” and fretted that the dismissal “bestows upon [the defendants] unearned grace by wiping their records clean.”
‘That is not in the public interest.’
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Mehta also complained that “today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of [Jan. 6, 2021], denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power —
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